Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a [adj] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well she 's I had a right go at over that . |
| 2 | ‘ I had a full-time job at Saffery Champness and then crammed another day 's work in . |
| 3 | I had a great contract at Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I had a great friend at school who brought me here . |
| 5 | I had a nervous breakdown at Frankland Jail and suddenly discovered feelings about my childhood . |
| 6 | ‘ I was gutted because I had a superb time at Chelsea . |
| 7 | I had a closer look at him . |
| 8 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 9 | I had a grand day at sea , but although the tide helped me to get back the wind did n't , and I used the engine to get back into the Crouch . |
| 10 | I — I had a terrible row at home this morning . |
| 11 | If he turns up for court and he says , yes I had a terrible time at the police station and there were all sorts of breaches of but I am now here on a , I 'm gon na tell the truth , that 's no problem . |
| 12 | When I had a close look at it , I saw that the inside of its mouth , which should have been pink , was very pale and frothing . |
| 13 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 14 | I had a close look at the table last night — what really — ehh — scares me is Scum 's away form — in fact they are better away than at Old Scumford — even so they are just as good away as we are at HQ … yes they are vulnerable — but as they got points from the games vs us , Newcastle , Blacburn and Scousers recently i ca n't see what ( who ) is gon na crack them ? |
| 15 | IT WAS the winter and I had a proper job at my spiritual home , British Rail . |
| 16 | I had a quick look at her ; but she will have to wait until I have finished with our friend here . ’ |
| 17 | So I had a quick look at them . |
| 18 | Oh , well , I made a detour through the Wicklow Mountains — but the hedges were too high to see much , and I had a quick look at the site of the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 19 | Well I had a quick look at them . |
| 20 | I had a bad time at the hands of male journalists during Julian 's trial and in the period leading up to it : some residual paranoia sticks . |
| 21 | I had a difficult time at one airport on a visit during the 1987 election . |
| 22 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 23 | Now , however , she had leisure to take in her surroundings , and she had a good look at an enormous house that she had barely glanced at before . |
| 24 | A few seasons back she had a small show at the now defunct 49th Parallel gallery but this is the first time New Yorkers will get to see works by this figurative painter in any profusion . |
| 25 | Luckily for her , she had a clever lawyer at her trial , and was never punished for the murder . |
| 26 | And she , she had a right go at me yesterday , right , er , this afternoon she goes , oh I took it out before I put me shoe , me foot in it , killjoy |
| 27 | I ca n't believe it , she had a right go at us , we were just chatting , and she said keep the noise down ! |
| 28 | ‘ She had a helpless husband at home in a wheelchair , dependent on her , but the Garda took no notice . |
| 29 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 30 | I could just make out that she had a little smile at the corner of her lips . |