Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Yeah I I had a vague recollection of you drinking Newcastle Brown sometime and quite liking it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ An eternity of time passed during which I had a blazing row with a nosy seagull which kept hovering over me . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe , ’ he said , ‘ that I can obtain you a position as reader in a publishing house in which I have a certain interest . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I picked on the Aplysia examples , because they lead to one of those rare cases in which we have a neurophysiological understanding of behaviour ( Fig. 3.7 ) . |
| 17 | Dolphins are probably as diverse now in terms of numbers of species , as at any time for which we have a good fossil record . |
| 18 | In an age in which we have a keen sense for the difference between fact and symbol , Wilson-Kastner makes no distinction . |
| 19 | Hotels and catering , clothing , retail , are three of the main Wages Council 's industries , of which we have a large membership . |
| 20 | The world communist movement , meanwhile , had virtually collapsed as an organised force , and individual parties had lost ground in nearly all the countries in which they had a legal existence ( some had simply disappeared ) . |
| 21 | ‘ If ’ , argues Conklin ( 1977 : 94 ) , ‘ businessmen feel ideologically deprived by government regulation because they think that the law is unfair and unduly restrictive of the economic forces to which they have a strong commitment , they may violate the law ’ . |
| 22 | Such agreements would otherwise be void or unenforceable under the general prohibition against trustees dealing with trust property in which they have a personal interest . |
| 23 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 24 | And Crosby said : ‘ If he looks after himself he has a great chance . |
| 25 | He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) . |
| 26 | He had , however , a natural ability with a penny-whistle , of which he had a great number , one of which he always carried in his pocket . |
| 27 | He was habited youthfully , in black jacket and trousers , over which he had a dripping cape . |
| 28 | McCallen has been having problems with the RVF Honda for which he had a new engine during final practice and as a result , his times have not been up to scratch . |
| 29 | There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else . |
| 30 | ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement . |