Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] had 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 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 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 !
5 Yeah I I had a vague recollection of you drinking Newcastle Brown sometime and quite liking it .
6 I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 ‘ An eternity of time passed during which I had a blazing row with a nosy seagull which kept hovering over me .
9 Er then I went on to Buffalo and Niagara falls and crossed over to Canada which I had a few friends there .
10 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 .
11 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 ) .
12 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 ) .
13 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 .
14 He was habited youthfully , in black jacket and trousers , over which he had a dripping cape .
15 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 .
16 There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else .
17 ‘ . 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 .
18 For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection .
19 Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series .
20 With great patience and no doubt a certain amount of pride , for here he was expert , he minutely described the cultivation of pineapples , melons and oranges in stoves and greenhouses , cucumbers on hot beds and of early fruits , wall-forced , for which he had a special reputation .
21 Inaugurating the new boards of the affected banks on July 13 , Falae announced that the government planned to privatize all the banks in which it had a controlling interest , in line with the government 's policy of divesting itself of state holdings .
22 Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate .
23 Hungary had in late January limited the renewal of export licences for sales to the Soviet Union ( with which it had a marked trade surplus ) and pursued its aim of exporting more to the West for hard currency .
24 One of her earliest pupils , in whom she had a great deal of confidence , was Brighton 's Julie Pullin who poignantly won her first women 's international title on the African satellite , 48 hours before Winnie died , and who went on to win a second title two weeks later .
25 Ms Raymond 's death came just a month after the break-up of her marriage to her second husband with whom she had a 10-month-old daughter .
26 If somebody was interviewed by him and had a bad time , I can tell you I had a bad time , well to me it was a bad time , when I with him and he saw he spoke with me .
27 She always always oh she she had a second sight like that , I think she should 've been a doctor if she 'd lived in these this day and age .
28 A passionate lover of the Savoy Operas , she was a founder member of the Bradford Gilbert and Sullivan Society , with who she had a long association .
29 ‘ Did anyone ever tell you you had a smart mouth ? ’
30 I mean we we had a definite offer and it 's all paid much later , that the money is coming and then the committee will get the money back .
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