Example sentences of "and i had the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She made no pretence of great musical knowledge and I had the satisfaction of describing to her the plot of L'Elisir d'Amore when no one else present in the Covent Garden box could remember it . |
| 32 | So , because my hair was red and I had the Elphberg nose , Rose worried about me . |
| 33 | Just after the Gulf War , there was a lot of talk of pollution and green issues , and I had the idea of cutting a cross-section through London — underground , overground and sky . |
| 34 | And what happened was , the exam finished Friday , and I had the baby on Sunday . |
| 35 | I had one leg up on the bath and I had the baby . |
| 36 | He took me straight to the Rembrandt and talked about it , without lowering his voice , and I had the smallness to be embarrassed because some other people there stared at us . |
| 37 | Stephen Conroy and I had the same tutor , Geoff Squires , and maybe he 's a model for our life drawing . |
| 38 | Looking ahead , I suppose travel would be nice , if only the opportunity arose and I had the courage to go with it . |
| 39 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | But you knew exactly where you were with him and I had the utmost respect for his judgement and management of the cutters . |
| 42 | there 's a wee bairn been in the , in the , in the , my daughter was staying in , and I had the other two . |
| 43 | ‘ And I had the gall to judge you by those standards . |
| 44 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 45 | It was right outside the Rose Bowl , and I had the lease and everything in my briefcase . ’ |
| 46 | The little girl seemed to be with a group , the carriage was dense with bulky figures , and I had the impression someone was trying to get her away from the window . |
| 47 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 48 | After a week of chocolate biscuits and fruit cake we returned home , and I had the honour of testing the lights . |
| 49 | When the bus pulled to a halt and I got off I was relieved because I had finished school and I had the weekend ahead of me so I could enjoy myself . |
| 50 | And I had the situation well in hand . ’ |
| 51 | And I had the TV cameras on me for most of the time . |
| 52 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
| 53 | because I 'll tell you what , I came off cold turkey , and I had the worst three days of my whole life . |
| 54 | ‘ I thought they must have had a quarrel , ’ Brand said , and I had the impression he was n't heartbroken about it . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ I would n't have liked to have known more about him , even though Hattie Jacques and I had the deepest philosophical discussions with him . ’ |
| 56 | Last week a party of Dublin deaf were in Belfast and I had the opportunity to put my new skills into use . |
| 57 | Aunt Margaret and I had the aforementioned ‘ smokin chicken ’ £5.95 which turned out to be a huge half-bird smothered in a nasty synthetic tasting sauce , which I scraped off and replaced with the ketchup on the table . |
| 58 | And I had the impression that , he just adopted this child through sheer sorrow and sympathy for her but , did not say , erm , categorically that that was his . |
| 59 | On a recent visit to New Zealand , my wife and I had the good fortune to meet up with Alf and Muriel Newton . |
| 60 | I put in me bag when I go up the school and I had the little microphone hanging out . |