Example sentences of "i [verb] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Ever since the journey to this place seventeen months ago I 'd had occasional panic attacks at the thought of being ‘ mummified ’ and stuck in the base of a truck again . |
2 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
3 | I 'd had one week after another when my wages were light , what with fines and that . |
4 | ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’ |
5 | I mean really I er it shook me because I was extremely naive , I 'd had two children but I was very very naive in those days . |
6 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
7 | I 'd had that years , it really bugged me . |
8 | But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it . |
9 | So when my cousin rang to ask ‘ which machine ’ , I said I 'd had good results and so on . |
10 | Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew . |
11 | I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf . |
12 | But we had to go and take it into his culler I had one day at that , I thought I thought I 'd had enough coal . |
13 | I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up … |
14 | John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’ |
15 | I 'm supposed to be resting , but after I 'd had forty winks , I felt a lot better , so I toddled over here . |
16 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
17 | If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face . |
18 | Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything . |
19 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
20 | That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year . |
21 | Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’ |
22 | And if I 'd had any problems , he sorted them out . |
23 | It rang again almost immediately — Alan again , asking if I 'd had any luck . |
24 | If I 'd had any doubts about your competence you can be sure I would n't have left you to cope here . ’ |
25 | When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so . |
26 | ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’ |
27 | It was obvious from the moment she came into the house that Dawn , as I 'd immediately christened her ( after all , I 'd had three weeks to dream up the name ) , was a real character . |
28 | ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish . |
29 | If only I 'd had more time . |
30 | I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger . |