Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] have a [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 | They told me I had an academic future , a considerable future . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is no leader with whom I have a deeper sense of personal friendship and gratitude. * |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | Yeah I I had a vague recollection of you drinking Newcastle Brown sometime and quite liking it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a sad thing to see someone who had an important job in the navy becoming such an irresponsible old soak . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I myself had a wonderful childhood playing with friends at home and I want the same for him . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ An eternity of time passed during which I had a blazing row with a nosy seagull which kept hovering over me . |
| 24 | Er then I went on to Buffalo and Niagara falls and crossed over to Canada which I had a few friends there . |
| 25 | Lot fifty eight collection of record pads and bits and pieces for which I have a hundred pounds offered , and ten , one twenty , one thirty , any more at one thirty , forty , one fifty , one sixty , one seventy one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty two forty two forty on the left at the back , any more at two forty , two sixty , two eighty two eighty three hundred three twenty three twenty on the left near the back now , at three twenty , are you , it 's your bid , sir , at three twenty pounds , any more at three twenty and I 'll sell at three hundred and twenty pounds . |
| 26 | ‘ I believe , ’ he said , ‘ that I can obtain you a position as reader in a publishing house in which I have a certain interest . |
| 27 | I mainly use the package with my Brother 950i , to which I have a connecting cable , but I ca n't wait for Soft Byte to produce one for the Pfaff 6000 so that I can view the patterns on screen before knitting them . |
| 28 | You cook the moules as for marinière : moules marinières is prepared by scrubbing the mussels , rejecting any that do not close when knocked against the sink , whilst allowing the finely chopped onion and garlic to thoroughly soften in the wine in a large pan for which you have a close-fitting lid . |
| 29 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 30 | the application or province of a favoured doctrine , theory , or calculus , perhaps something in which one has a proprietary interest . |