Example sentences of "i had a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Having interviewed my fair share of criminals and oddballs , ranging from murderers to men with silver foil round their heads claiming protection from the moon 's beams , I thought I had a well-developed instinct for sensing a nutter when I met one .
2 I wish I had a working wishing well .
3 Hence I had a working knowledge of the language and sometimes , at table , could follow the conversation , though when the Ralembergs lapsed into patois this became impossible .
4 I saved up these back pages until I had a complete set and my mother sewed them together on her treadle -operated Singer machine .
5 Within a week I had a complete record of this remote site , it is amazing how much remains — an undercarriage with its wheel and tyre in place .
6 I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep .
7 The next I heard was when I had a complete breakdown of Robert and Janet 's income erm with the breakdown of how a new settlement was was brought about .
8 Then I had a blooming fall .
9 I had a spare bedroom and eventually , we agreed that he would come and live in my flat as a lodger — which is what happened .
10 As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room .
11 I wish I had a spare lifetime to spend in trying to paint it . ’
12 I can make leads , I mean , if you have to do it , if I had a spare moment
13 I had a mobile phone but I could n't get any international calls . ’
14 For a while I was scared that I was pregnant ; I had a disgusting sense of something alien inside me , like maggots or a cancer .
15 Two years ago , for example , I had a rough time .
16 I had a rough idea in my mind , before going to Portugal , of the approximate shape and design of the picture I wanted to create .
17 I had a rough idea from the photograph where the site was , but on the ground everything looked different .
18 I 've got , I , I had a rough idea of what he 'd got and what he had n't now .
19 And I had a slight mishap , the simplest thing in the world , really , when I was using a shovel in the calf house .
20 I had a slight accident a few months ago , wrote off my car and almost myself . ’
21 ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel .
22 They 're trained to collate evidence about the present , and project it into the future , not to find out what happened fifteen years ago to some one particular person , least of all one with whom I had a slight personal acquaintance .
23 I had a wee try-on ,
24 So my w Jessie and I had a wee break .
25 I had a wee office but it was kind
26 so he 's going to do that , so I said well look , do you mind if I had a wee sort of prelim talk with him
27 If there are more than four I go to the cupboard and nip cognacs till it 's all over for me , my dear ’ , or ‘ Last Sunday I had a fearful crise .
28 I had a distinct impression that many of the organisers had had professional theatre experience and that , naturally , their point of view was coloured by this , while the teachers had arrived at the point of realising the potential of drama as a tool of education .
29 I had a stupid girls ’ education .
30 I had a tremendous sense of bereavement — it hurt inside — I had no idea it would be like that . ’
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