Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything ! |
| 2 | ‘ That I had many acquaintances named Svend and that none of them would run off with a teenager . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They said that I had enough equity to qualify for a multi-currency loan . |
| 4 | Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong . |
| 5 | Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong . |
| 6 | I had to stop myself telling her that I had another party to go to on Christmas evening — just so I could stay home after everyone had left and stuff my face with leftovers . |
| 7 | I was n't at all sure that I had any right to make the request that I proposed to make . |
| 8 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 9 | I was one of the first ones to be flown out and then there was a postal hold-up so I had real trouble finding out what was going on , and also trying to organise to have him brought home . |
| 10 | This was the sixth show , so I had six days to work out a new act . |
| 11 | He said last night : ‘ I 've had a spot of bother for the past four or five years with my knee so I had these X-rays done and they found a bone growth about the size of a pea . |
| 12 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 13 | Just before leaving the consulting room she knew that she had one thing left to do and it was important . |
| 14 | How dared he think it , let alone say it , that she had other men to settle her bills ? |
| 15 | Shortly before he died , Mary had noticed that she had great difficulty swallowing food , had gone to her doctor and he had organized X-rays and tests at the local hospital . |
| 16 | Her mother was surprised that Sarah was not with her but Anne explained that she had important work to finish . |
| 17 | He did n't mind telling her in no uncertain terms to keep her distance from him , not that she had any inclination to do anything else , but obviously felt no compulsion to obey those rules when applied to himself . |
| 18 | This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ? |
| 19 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 20 | When we arrived she greeted us kindly , her first honeymoon couple , showed us round the cottage , then excused herself , saying that she had 600 lettuces to plant out before tea . |
| 21 | It is better to report that you had insufficient time to collect certain data than to produce half baked results . |
| 22 | That you had some reason to distrust him ? ’ |
| 23 | She would have liked to sit down and enjoy it , or at least take the child early so she had some evening left when they got back . |
| 24 | ‘ Once you had one Italian doing well in a place , more from their town or village followed . ’ |
| 25 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 26 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 27 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |
| 28 | So a conductor 's duty were n't very very nice then , probably three piece duties , which were spread duties but you know people thought they were bringing in a wonderful thing to be one man operated but it was before the war that we had one man operated buses . |
| 29 | People like me in the past used to rail that we had commercial enterprises using the college . |
| 30 | ‘ One shot showed a problem with the lever arms on the roll bar , so we had new ones made for the British Grand Prix at Aintree . |