Example sentences of "[adv] and i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite my luck with the Harlequin ducks the Barrow 's goldeneyes declined to come close enough and I had still not got a good shot when , with reluctance , we left Mýatn . |
| 2 | I had butterflies in my stomach enough and I had to do something , so I grabbed the nearest paw , which belonged to Merlyn Rees . |
| 3 | They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before . |
| 4 | But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married . |
| 5 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 6 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 7 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
| 8 | Bill made a determined effort to push me aside and I had to let him . |
| 9 | It was nice , however , to walk through the front door and retire to my bed , I was home and I had survived . |
| 10 | He had hit it once and I had taken my hand out from under my chin preparatory to ducking when Paul , the bomb and its little halo-pool and everything else for about ten metres around suddenly vanished inside a climbing column of sand and steam and flying rock , lit just the once from inside , in that blindingly brief first moment , by the high explosive detonating . |
| 11 | I 've got to say that I did enjoy this outing ; although the day began with a freezing start it warmed up later and I had a pleasant time working amongst the iron and other junk that abounds on the riverside . |
| 12 | What was more , I was 21 years old now and I had discovered just how much freedom I could have away from home ! |
| 13 | I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts : |
| 14 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 15 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 16 | Well and I had er er erm erm what 's the name ? |
| 17 | I obviously understood this very well and I had all sorts of |
| 18 | ‘ When the race for places ended a fortnight ago and I had n't made it I was upset . |
| 19 | That evening , pacing the floor of his chamber before the most able of his mormaers and his churchmen , he had said , ‘ What would I do if I were Siward and I had just lost all hope of my heirs ruling Northumbria ? |
| 20 | ‘ Obviously , I have a tremendous amount of memories from here and I had a tremendous amount of success here , too . |
| 21 | The last time I won was here and I had that on my mind most of the week . |
| 22 | She was only little then and I had to hold her up so she could reach . |
| 23 | He was silent then and I had the feeling he was thinking of all that Cook had done , first in Endeavour , then in Resolution and Discovery , ships not much longer than Isvik . |
| 24 | From there and I had this telescope . |
| 25 | I mean I 've just come through there and I had a car today and a girl was telling me her father erm opened his door last week er cataract and the , the wife , the granny blind too and there , the man from the water board was just going to switch off your water , just okay if I check your taps , three hundred pounds out the house |
| 26 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 27 | All down there and I had to get a it was that much I had to get a bucket of water , soapy water to scrub it down . |
| 28 | money out there and I had the hundred quid that |
| 29 | And it , and it like , it run down me face there and I had a big red mark on me face . |
| 30 | Well I went there and I had to fill in another application and they 've set me up with er another interview at erm Health Centre , and that 's tomorrow . |