Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather . |
| 2 | An ex-agent of mine told me I had the wrong attitude to charity shows ; I did too many . |
| 3 | They told me I had an academic future , a considerable future . ’ |
| 4 | Erm we were asked by the managing director er a man called W P whom I had a great deal of respect for , because he was a , he was a design engineer by trade and , and craft . |
| 5 | When the Second World War broke out in Europe , it was difficult to get supplies of helpful books , and when the Japanese came into it after the disaster of Pearl Harbour , I myself , as well as the clergy and students for whom I had a pastoral responsibility , felt the need of prayers to meet the threatening danger , as well as the provision of prayers which would express a Christ-like spirit about war , enemies in war , dangers in war and sufferers in war . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Dr. Elliott Gabellah , acting President of the African National Council — with whom I had the good fortune to breakfast , morning after morning , at the Caux world assembly last August — is conferring with Presidents Kaunda and Nyerere in Zambia . |
| 7 | I also enclose a bill you sent to the previous tenant of this flat , for whom I have no forwarding address . |
| 8 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 9 | When I have to answer them I have some difficulty defending Members of the House , for whom I have a high regard and affection , if they behave badly , but such bad behaviour does not always come from the same side of the House . |
| 10 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 11 | Yeah I I had a vague recollection of you drinking Newcastle Brown sometime and quite liking it . |
| 12 | Actually I was cos I I had the back door open and I thought I 'll just leave it and if he wants to come in he can and I poured him a a bit of a drink of milk and er , then I went in the kit , in the bathroom and the door was still open and then suddenly I thought God I wonder where he was ? |
| 13 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 14 | They went into the living-room and Lee turned off the television and they ate scrambled eggs in silence , Lee sitting on her resentment and Philippa thinking how impossible it was to talk to someone who had a blind spot , a crazy gap , a fatal flaw . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a sad thing to see someone who had an important job in the navy becoming such an irresponsible old soak . ’ |
| 16 | Weight loss is common , as are the obvious physical signs of needle track marks ( and wearing long sleeves to hide them ) , and the perpetually sore , running nose of someone who has a sniffing habit . |
| 17 | ‘ If you 're not technical , it 's very impotant to buy through someone who has a vested interest in supporting you , ’ says managing director Tony Gamble . |
| 18 | On polling day , it is the responsibility of the polling officer to decide whether someone who is under the influence of drink or drugs , or someone who has a severe learning disability , should or should not vote . |
| 19 | Most people ‘ in the street ’ recognise what a teacher is ; most would accord a teacher of ( say ) French a certain status ( though perhaps not as much as the deserve ) as being someone who has a special skill or expertise . |
| 20 | However mean , miserable and undeserving a defendant is , he is entitled under our system to a fair trial and not to be the subject of attack , however justified , from someone who has no particular connection with the issue in the case , even if the defendant brought it on himself . |
| 21 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 22 | I myself had a disturbing experience the other day , when one of our local health visitors came to call — something they are wont to do if you have children under the age of five . |
| 23 | I myself had a wonderful childhood playing with friends at home and I want the same for him . ’ |
| 24 | Here again I was able to prove myself useful and to gain a little kudos : I could compose with what seemed to others an astonishing facility an ode or sonnet on behalf of some lovesick junior and addressed to some beefy , lacrosse-playing heroine in whom I myself had no emotional interest whatsoever . |
| 25 | Although none of the aquariums used are lit , rocks are placed in them which have a generous growth of algae on them , and are changed once the algae has gone through constant grazing . |
| 26 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ An eternity of time passed during which I had a blazing row with a nosy seagull which kept hovering over me . |
| 29 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 30 | His adventures concluded he retires to Dulwich saying that he will never regret those two years , with their ‘ scenes of which I had no previous conception ’ leading to ‘ the enlargement of my mind ’ , PP passim . |