Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] had the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 2 | I am still rather surprised that I had the good sense for once in my life to follow my hunch and come and see you . |
| 3 | Claudia was so outraged that she had the greatest difficulty in keeping the rage she felt enough under control for her to be coherent . |
| 4 | The artist … explained that the printer 's contribution in creating the official lithograph was merely mechanical , that his sole contribution was to reproduce the original as closely as possible , and that she had the absolute right of approval of all aspects of the final prints . |
| 5 | Reading a letter from Miss Joan Rix in the EADT last week , I find that she had the same thoughts as myself . |
| 6 | That she had the same troubles , worries and hopes that he had . |
| 7 | Not that she had the slightest prejudice against blacks . |
| 8 | When asked about statistical material , the teacher stated that she had the national statistics . |
| 9 | Well who , who noticed that you had the least Brummie accent ? |
| 10 | I 'm afraid the fact is that we had the finest guitarist in the world and we did n't recognise it . |
| 11 | We had to look at what we can afford to do in the future , and make sure that we had the right number of quality staff in the right places to carry out our programme . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ It was at a meeting on January 17 — two days after we answered the status inquiry — that we had the first indication that the shop had decided to consult an insolvency expert . ’ |
| 13 | Last week we had the Co-op Congress , and the week before that we had the Basque flag flying from socialist Spain because of our new links with Bilbao the ferry service there . |
| 14 | IT WAS 25 YEARS AGO I think , wrote Leopold Mozart to his wife on their wedding anniversary in 1772 , ‘ that we had the bright idea of getting married . ’ |
| 15 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 16 | But it finally ended up that we had the whole thing Rousay Egilsay and Wyre . |
| 17 | In Merkur Island Shipping Corporation v. Laughton the defendants were in fact given a copy of the charter of the trapped vessel before the application for an injunction , but the House of Lords held that they had the requisite knowledge independently of this . |
| 18 | Intense negotiations continued , with the generators believing that they had the upper hand because of the Government 's tight timetable and their insistence that they should not have to sign contracts before seeing the white paper . |
| 19 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had just gone a little too far by even referring to strikes and labour problems at a time of mounting industrial tension but the popular and critical reception to the movie showed that the company were not wrong to believe that they had the technical ability and the actors to make films whose reality would be appreciated . |
| 20 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 21 | Much emphasis was put on the importance of identifying the key decision-takers and making sure that they had the right information — much was made of the necessity of their getting a balanced picture on which to take their decisions . |
| 22 | Well fortunately the Spanish were even more incompetent than he was and what the Spanish commander , instead of rubbing his hands at the prospect of er the damage they were about to wreak , he discovered that they had the wrong calibre shells for their guns and Roosevelt and the Rough Riders overran the Spanish guns a and Teddy Roosevelt became a war hero and on the strength of becoming a war hero , he become vice president of the United States , got the vice presidential nomination and in good American fashion the president was shot er by an assassin er and Teddy Roosevelt became president , so there you are , there 's a there 's a career plan for you to er to think about . |
| 23 | The scientists and technicians who were responsible for running the vessel were all ranking members of the Imperial Survey Service ; but that did not mean that they had the slightest notion about running either a tight or a tidy ship . |
| 24 | Oh it is true , but it did , it did do it , but that was the other day and I did n't think that they had the same effect , no , well perhaps so , mind you I mean we have done a lot of walking , have n't we ? |
| 25 | Hubble noted that certain types of stars always have the same luminosity when they are near enough for us to measure ; therefore , he argued , if we found such stars in another galaxy , we could assume that they had the same luminosity — and so calculate the distance to that galaxy . |
| 26 | As I retreated , putting one foot down in front of the other on the stony path , I reflected that I was tired of this place , that it had the dry consistency of chaff . |
| 27 | FoE urged Nirex to admit that it had the wrong design in the wrong place and called on the company to abandon the scheme . |
| 28 | During the interval it was a chastened but not dispirited European team which lunched together in the solitude of the team H.Q. We will never learn what was discussed but there is no doubt that it had the desired effect . |
| 29 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the Budget was so unbelievably boring that it had the opposite effect . |