Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 2 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 3 | When I reluctantly put him back in his shoe box , I had a desperate need to be close to ‘ Fred ’ the person . |
| 4 | The voice stopped and I had a similar feeling to the one I had just before I found Toby trussed up in his cupboard . |
| 5 | In wounded puzzlement I had a sudden flashback to the time immediately after Dunkirk , when Leslie had referred to the projected formation of a parachute corps , and to service in it as ‘ absolute certain death ’ in a ‘ suicide squad ’ . |
| 6 | I had a natural ability to entirely forget the theatre when at home , and vice versa , which was extremely useful . |
| 7 | For a while though , I had a psychological block to sailing in fresher winds because I thought my weight and strength was not up to it . |
| 8 | I was n't really disappointed at all ; I had a devil-may-care attitude to my athletics . |
| 9 | But they loved me so passionately that I had a secure base to my life . ’ |
| 10 | Despite our wariness of exclusivity , if I had a satisfactory answer to my first question ( somewhere along the lines of : we pay nothing and lose none of the candidate fee ! ) |
| 11 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 12 | I 've a perfect right to my feelings . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ They think I just sit back if I have a good start to the season . |
| 14 | On the other hand , my own feeling would be very much that schools have to prepare children for taking their life in the community and the community is mixed sex , it 's not single sex , so I have a slight aversion to single sex institutions . |
| 15 | As a prospective candidate for the Scottish National Party , and , indeed , Home Affairs member of the SNP 's Scottish Cabinet , I have a strong commitment to the project of Scottish independence in Europe . |
| 16 | ‘ The truth is , ’ he admitted to Alan Griffiths , ‘ I have a constant temptation to over asperity … even when there is no subjective anger to prompt me : it comes , I think , from the pleasure of using the English language forcibly — i.e. it is not a species of Ira but of Superbia . |
| 17 | I have a sensible solution to this argument . |
| 18 | Did you have a good flight to London ? |
| 19 | She was , as Ward had said , rusty as hell , but behind the rust she had a solid look to her . |
| 20 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 21 | And it she had a right talk to him and he said , Well that 's it . |
| 22 | It was as if she had a hot line to the Devil . |
| 23 | And she meant it , for she liked her college room , she was even mildly proud of it , and the thought of entertaining Clelia in it did not alarm her , though she had a deep aversion to the notion of entertainment , and had never in her whole three years at University embarked on the ritual tea parties or more ambitious sherry parties that mark the social life of such establishments . |
| 24 | She had a deep gash to her leg , probably inflicted with an axe and severe internal injuries , though these were n't noticed until the next day . |
| 25 | Once , after a particularly sharp contraction , she had a sudden wish to unburden herself to her mother , to tell her that her grandchild had nothing to do with John Carrow , but that its father bore a striking resemblance to Tom Tremayne . |
| 26 | She had a spiteful twist to her tongue which drove other women away . |
| 27 | Her own body and mind still seemed to be moving in slow motion , and she had a wild urge to — what ? |
| 28 | She had a physical resemblance to Ramsey 's dead mother . |
| 29 | ‘ You had a useful visit to the city ? ’ |
| 30 | Glad to know you had a good visit to — but am amazed you only used ten units of electricity . |