Example sentences of "[coord] i had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had spoken Lear 's opening lines and I had felt a shiver run through the theatre 's great darkness , because the voice was there , and the power of it , and he was suddenly not a dirty old man at all , but a great , kind , foolish and painfully honest King . |
| 2 | Tony and I had organized a dog sledging trip which we hoped would take us from Dividal in northern Norway through Sweden and into Finland . |
| 3 | But facts are facts , and I had heard a hound . |
| 4 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
| 5 | Val and I had met a party of school children with the master giving them a botany lesson as we walked , so we tagged on and saw a lot we would n't otherwise have noticed . |
| 6 | Please to remember I had finished my own stint , and I had served a period on Bennett 's staff as his " horse-thief " — the recruiter and trainer , I was the Group training inspector . |
| 7 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 8 | Sebastian and I had shared a house when I was lecturing on Crime and Punishment . |
| 9 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 10 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 11 | The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales . |
| 12 | And I had spent a total of three winters playing Grade cricket in the city and found that I really liked the place and the people . |
| 13 | Jimmy Warren is experiencing stress trauma and I had suggested a visit to Len Seager in hospital , but he was n't sure he could handle it , at least not on his own . |
| 14 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 15 | I had noticed the name on the map ; it seemed very remote but I had seen a reference to an inn there . |
| 16 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |