Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think I had the right attitude towards it .
2 I recall that during my last six months service I had the magnificent sum of £6/5/ ( £6.25 now ) to spend on myself .
3 I mean I had the same problem when I was secretary .
4 So one would know one had the right answer only if someone else repeated the calculation and got the same answer , and that did not seem very likely !
5 When Count Philip of Flanders suspected that his wife had committed adultery with Gautier de Fontaines he had the young man killed by hanging him upside down in a cess-pit .
6 , who had felt perfectly well , was astonished to discover he had the early stages of tuberculosis .
7 Yet recognition of the difficulties in which the two papers found themselves had the apparent effect of making the Government and the party think more clearly about mass communications .
8 ‘ I just do n't feel I had the right level of care . ’
9 A community psychiatry system was adopted which had the mental health centre at the middle .
10 I 've been through hell , Rachel , believing you had the same problem as me , and I was the man you wanted to go to bed with but could n't stand personally . ’
11 You 're the first woman I 've ever met who had the slightest idea what travelling light means .
12 She was n't his life : she was his youth ; Constanza says they had the same kind of public behaviour and as one gets older it counts .
13 The people were cheated into believing they had the highest standard of living in Europe .
14 As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move .
15 Fiona Weir , FoE 's air pollution campaigner , said that the group did not feel it had the necessary expertise or information to produce warnings on " nuclear winter " effects , ozone depletion and acid rain .
16 I was standing there and I was going I had the two pound in my pocket like but there 's no way I was giving her two pound so Bitch
17 According to our mother , he was so late that she began to suspect she had the hysterical pregnancy of all time .
18 Quorshi commented that companies would only do this when they were satisfied that both the PC product and the company selling it had the proper standing .
19 But I do n't think we had the right attitude , ’ Sheila says .
20 they nearly did it brilliant way , remember I had the little labels on them and they 've all got mixed up one way or another
21 ‘ You 'd never guess we had the same kind of humble background , ’ she mused .
22 With the black , you know it had the black bit as well
23 The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman .
24 This was to ensure they had the correct commitment and were prepared to organize for quality .
25 Clayton used to rush out and buy both papers each Sunday to judge who had the best picture .
26 Maggie felt she had the upper hand to some extent and this had to be talked out .
27 For herself , she wished she could have bought one of the paintings , she knew she had the ideal space for it on one of the walls of her long white sitting room in Kington Square .
28 In finishing I would say that starting to change fluids can be a daunting prospect and I can assure you our firm played about with fluids and got some ropey results , and even thought we had the chemical company taped and could use less fluid , it worked out at about 3 oz per 80 oz with dye added and boy , did we have colour , it was brilliant .
29 He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed .
30 Hunt knew he had the faster car ; what he needed was the opportunity .
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