Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] had [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one we see with five years I said to Bet well it 's bloody cheaper than the one she 's , anyway I I I had enough money on my er thing so |
| 2 | What I wanted ideally was a situation in which I had two groups of birds , each trained on and showing the disgust response to the bitter bead , but one group then remembering and the other forgetting the association . |
| 3 | In 1940 I had prepared an essay on Ivy 's novels , which I had some prospect of placing in Horizon . |
| 4 | In some areas , such as vision , what happens to the food they eat , explanations of day and night , shadows and plant growth , many children had well-established views which they had little difficulty in expressing . |
| 5 | It all seems to have lacked sparkle ; Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ Boswell was very angry that the Aberdeen professors would not talk , ’ while Boswell says they were afraid to , and as a consequence he and Johnson round themselves ‘ barren ’ — having already spent a morning in which they had scant conversation with anyone . |
| 6 | Innocent was beset with problems which he had little chance of solving as the sands constantly shifted and political and economic undercurrents conditioned behaviour . |
| 7 | In the thirty-six years of which he had conscious memory of Mrs Farr Senior , their relationship had never developed beyond the ‘ is n't it a nice day ? ’ stage . |
| 8 | Coucy soon rose high in favour at court : in 1363 Edward granted him lands in north Lancashire , Cumberland and Westmorland to which he had some claim by inheritance ; two years later he married Isabella , and in 1366 the king created him Earl of Bedford with an endowment of 1,000 marks a year . |
| 9 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 10 | The presentation took place in the showroom where she also received a Caithness Crystal glass vase given by her friends in the factory and warehouse with whom she had close links for many years . |
| 11 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
| 12 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
| 13 | Ever since we met , my dear , so gently and subtly you 've been teaching me , you and Miguelito , and instead of thanking you I had this attack of childish pique and blamed you for hurting my feelings ! |
| 14 | By gum she she had some trouble on him not half . |
| 15 | You knew the seas were hitting the tower but you you had great faith in the stability of the tower . |
| 16 | I remember we I had this sort of enamel brown enamel jug , ooh it was mm must have been somewhere about four . |
| 17 | I told him I had twenty-two men with me , armed with fourteen rifles , as well as my own three rifles and shotgun . |
| 18 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean told him she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 19 | The old wooden case-clock at the foot of the stairs where Ellie was standing chimed the hour , as if to tell her she had two hours to herself before the ‘ broth ’ returned , and three and a quarter hours before her father did likewise . |
| 20 | Yes but in Russia they they had this kind of framework before communism began |
| 21 | Something about Adam Burns told her he had great powers of perception — she 'd do her own case no good at all by letting him know how deeply unsettling she found his questions . |
| 22 | About this time Gough married Joan Wood , of Peplow , by whom he had eight children between 1663 and 1678 . |
| 23 | He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact . |
| 24 | There was something about cutter work — glamour , adventure , battling the elements , or just plain escapism — call it what you will , but once you had experienced it you had great difficulty in settling down to the more prosaic existence ashore . |
| 25 | He thought he heard the clatter of it in the roads , oh it it had awful stuff of that kind . |
| 26 | Well , very well known , I ca n't remember his name now , but he he had two methods of getting rid of them , erm . |
| 27 | You know what I had this morning for my breakfast ? |
| 28 | And I wondered what she had blonde hair for . |
| 29 | Mercifully for us they had gold leaf in plenty ’ . |
| 30 | Apparently no specific policy but managers told us they had some problems in the past with dogs messing in the store . |