Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pron] 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 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Yeah I I had a vague recollection of you drinking Newcastle Brown sometime and quite liking it . |
| 4 | I myself had a disturbing experience the other day , when one of our local health visitors came to call — something they are wont to do if you have children under the age of five . |
| 5 | I myself had a wonderful childhood playing with friends at home and I want the same for him . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Did anyone ever tell you you had a smart mouth ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I gathered it was you who had a previous acquaintance with him . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We we had a great thing tonight at tea did n't we ? |
| 12 | See if I was fetching anything or anything like that Oh we had an awfu we we had a big stock er big stock you know . |
| 13 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 14 | That 's orange juice and we we had a free sample one year . |
| 15 | They told me they had a little house not far away from where I lived , and that Dorothy was expecting a baby — twins , the doctor had said . |
| 16 | Between them they had a weekly capacity of 5,500 sacks . |
| 17 | He showed her that like him she had a long life-line . |
| 18 | POLICE launched a massive hunt for accident victim Christine Jessop — to warn her she had a broken neck . |
| 19 | Her widowhood sat lightly on her shoulders , and from what Peggy gathered from her she had a favourite pub . |
| 20 | He told her she had a lovely body and when she went to bed with him , she said ( he 'd find out about it anyway and drop her ) : |
| 21 | The tour was a shock to the system , particularly Gordon 's : back home afterwards , his doctor told him he had a damaged liver . |
| 22 | His habit of electioneering from a white Rolls Royce sometimes attracted comment and he told me he had a silver-tipped cane with which to tap at doors of council flats in Fulham , though I was never sure whether to believe him . |
| 23 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 24 | After that , Dinah should disappear for a little ; they must not grow accustomed to her , and he himself had a leading part waiting which demanded full passions ; that of Tamburlaine . |
| 25 | He himself had a large collection of artistic objects of which he was very proud . |
| 26 | He himself had a beautiful voice , but he did not know all that amount of technique . |
| 27 | And it she had a right talk to him and he said , Well that 's it . |
| 28 | So she came and talked to 'em we had a long chat and actually I mean it er does sound very interesting . |
| 29 | Er , it it had a peculiar taste with it . |
| 30 | I remember very distinctly the morning when my father came to tell us we had a new baby sister . |