Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood up while we watched and I realized he had magnificent horns , far longer than any I had yet seen . |
| 2 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 3 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 4 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 5 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 6 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 7 | I felt I had good cause . |
| 8 | Sitting there in the London bound train ( I had thought it would never come into the station , that the whistle would never blow ) , I saw myself in a play , a melodrama perhaps — I felt I had Runaway Daughter written all over me … |
| 9 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 10 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
| 11 | I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend . |
| 12 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
| 13 | One day he wrote ‘ battting ’ , and when I queried this , he said , ‘ Well , I knew it had two t's , so I put three to make sure ! ’ |
| 14 | I knew he had previous convictions . |
| 15 | Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw you had some books on birds . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , yes , so would I , you know , right in the centre of the action , I thought we had brilliant seats . |
| 18 | ‘ But I thought we had all day to get to the school , ’ remarked Endill . |
| 19 | And , and I thought we had this conversation two weeks ago |
| 20 | Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you had powerful friends too , ’ he said to Owen . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought you had more courage . ’ |
| 23 | I thought you had more self-control . |
| 24 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 25 | I thought I had other books ? |
| 26 | I thought I had genuine friends at the Oval after six and a half years . |
| 27 | Basing my decisions on body shape and colouration I thought I had four males and three females . |
| 28 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 29 | Up to then I thought he had dark hair . |
| 30 | I mixed I had some Malibu . |