Example sentences of "[pron] had [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 2 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 3 | those there , cos those are the ones I had for the European elections |
| 4 | When it was all over I had on a wet blouse , but Shirnette had one on too . |
| 5 | I had on a white guipure lace dress and matching turban with a huge feather on the front . |
| 6 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 7 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 8 | Remember that bit of bother I had in the Red Hart in Berkeley ? ’ he continued , ‘ the sailor went through the window . ’ |
| 9 | Miller only credited Bartram with a few plants in the Dictionary : Lilium philadelphum , ‘ at present very rare in English gardens ’ , Toxicodendron serratum , ‘ not yet flowered ’ and Veratrum americanum , another rarity which had in a good season both flowered and seeded in this country . |
| 10 | Oh I mean many of them were taken out of a book which had in the front price five and sixpence so a so I think that went very well and er I mean Jack was much encouraged by it so much so that he 's going to actually offer to do it for another organisation that he 's connected with |
| 11 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 12 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 13 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 14 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 15 | She had on a superb raspberry pink swagger coat . |
| 16 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 17 | As she prepares for her gold medal exam for speech and drama next month through the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , she confesses she has cast aside ambitions she had as a ten- year-old to be an actress . |
| 18 | She was feeling exactly as she had in the old days . |
| 19 | Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs . |
| 20 | Although O'Keeffe did not abandon abstractionism after 1923 , there is no question that she limited her experimentation with it , and she never again worked as expressively or freely with it as she had in the formative years of her career . |
| 21 | Or was she behaving again like she had after the strange happenings on Monument Hill ? |
| 22 | When told to settle down — and Emlyn Williams , who had to a large extent taken over the parental role from Philip Burton at this stage , did instruct him to do that — it clicked with something and he thought — well , why not ? |
| 23 | Now half a crown in those days was a lot of money , you had to a full day 's work for half a crown , make no mistake on that . |
| 24 | There are those who claim to be able to tell you psychically just who you were and what sort of life you had in a previous existence . |
| 25 | And er kept there , then you had in the front shop , you had a range of er hair er drawers with your drugs , your drugs at the bottom . |
| 26 | One had on a black top , the other a white top with a red waistcoat style jacket . |
| 27 | But it was the precipitation running off the wings through a gap in the frieze ailerons that we had on the Wapiti aircraft at that time , that had soaked me . |
| 28 | Although the presentation of information on the instruments or cathode ray tubes is infinitely better than it was in those old aircraft , the basic type of ‘ director ’ information is little different from what we had on the old zero-reader . |
| 29 | This was very lucky and one of the two strokes of luck we had on the whole job . |
| 30 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |