Example sentences of "had some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had some land near Port au Prince , and he was building a new town . |
| 32 | Frelimo already had some experience of developing schools in the liberated zones before independence , when education was intended to contribute to the liberation struggle , to change people 's consciousness and attitudes and to promote production and combat . |
| 33 | He began by indicating that Catholics , in general , had some experience of how the O.T . |
| 34 | Similarly , one of our members who had some experience with social services is in the process of opening a Day Care Centre for the housebound . |
| 35 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 36 | Of course , I already had some experience with the various falconers ' knots and changing jesses with a bird perched on my fist , but poor old Derek got himself a bit tied up . |
| 37 | Because he had taught school before becoming a Fed he had some experience of kids . |
| 38 | Even before their enforced sojourn in the tsar 's eastern provinces , several of the Decembrist conspirators already had some experience of , or indirect connection with , Siberia . |
| 39 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 40 | But we spent the winter of 1888 with another , and the next year had some experience in pantomime . |
| 41 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 42 | I know Mother would have liked it because she had some experience of one when she was living with Aunt Bessie , over in Stainmore . |
| 43 | And they , they had had some experience or were they engineers or something |
| 44 | And for what purpose , with such a force , unless he had some word of power to lure him out of his castle ? |
| 45 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 46 | I know Mother traded with him from time to time , and once sent a quantity of wool away to another mill and had some back as grey blankets . |
| 47 | Mm no he 's had it over a period of time , we think it may be hereditary cos his father had some back trouble too when he was alive |
| 48 | So some of us went to Victoria Falls and I went to Durban where I had some relatives and attended the July Handicap , the only horse race in the world that runs through the streets . |
| 49 | Apart from the absence of any selection board , and any other substantial barrier to student entry , Coleman had some sense on his side . |
| 50 | It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity . |
| 51 | By the time I had some sense out of her it was too late to consider having even a coffee . |
| 52 | Luckily the driver had some idea of what was going on — and managed to escape assassination . |
| 53 | Seeing her sister 's tearstained cheeks and George 's flushed face , she had some idea of the scene which she had interrupted . |
| 54 | Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution . |
| 55 | Probably a major cause for their intolerance was that both , but especially Tolkien , had some idea of what genuine old paganism was like . |
| 56 | ‘ She recognised me and had some idea I wanted to do a story about her on York station . |
| 57 | As he himself said , it would be pointless to study such peoples with a questionnaire , since they do not write , and , while he certainly gained a great deal of essential information from conversation and discussion , it would have been quite futile to try to conduct any kind of interview until he had gained their trust and confidence , and until he had some idea of what kinds of questions he should be asking . |
| 58 | I had some idea that the record-player must be in Conchis 's room . |
| 59 | He had some idea of what was ahead of him , for he knew the terrible tales about the Robemaker 's Workshops . |
| 60 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |