Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] have the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 2 | I thought you had the best of that particular discussion . ’ |
| 3 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 4 | For herself , she wished she could have bought one of the paintings , she knew she had the ideal space for it on one of the walls of her long white sitting room in Kington Square . |
| 5 | She knew he had the proverbial wife and two kids at Camberley . |
| 6 | Or ‘ You wanted me to have the Tuscan villa , did you not ? ’ |
| 7 | We had we had the two schools , the School and the what we call the Boys School , that was the other one on on the green and it the girl 's school , near this school , you started there as an infant between five and seven . |
| 8 | When the borders opened up last year , they realised they had the worst . |
| 9 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 10 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 11 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 12 | He thought he had the upper hand while she was trapped here , and he was right — it made her feel awkward and uneasy , put her at a disadvantage . |
| 13 | I asked whether he thought he had the same difficulties as his father : |
| 14 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 15 | No she said , I 'll get you ! and he said I have the mobile phone number . |
| 16 | He said he had the same ability as Wino but pointed out that he ( Gray ) was injured at 16 and never fully recovered , so his potential would have been even greater than it turned out . |