Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’ |
| 2 | I needed a new designer and I had a very strong instinct that you were precisely what I was looking for . |
| 3 | ‘ I had a very strong reaction to the first episode . |
| 4 | A month later I saw something bright green there , and after six months I had a very small field of corn . |
| 5 | I was n't on H R T , I had a very easy transition from having periods to stopping having periods . |
| 6 | ‘ I was lucky in that I was appointed as the group was beginning to take off so I had a very good relationship with the plc directors . |
| 7 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 8 | Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby . |
| 9 | I had a very good knowledge of Edinburgh by the time I was five . |
| 10 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 11 | The length of the adjusted pack was enough to cater for my unusually long back and after making a small adjustment to the shoulder strap attachment plates which can be swivelled to close or widen the gap between them at the neck , I had a very good fit . |
| 12 | ‘ But I had a very good reason … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's just a knack and a not entirely reliable one , ’ the Doctor replied , ‘ but of course I had a very good teacher . ’ |
| 14 | Obviously , I had a very deep sense of pain and loneliness — that was n't a happy person . |
| 15 | I had a very strange dream ! |
| 16 | As I sat in my comfortable chair I had a very strange feeling . |
| 17 | ‘ I soon realised that I had a very limited view of what venture capital was all about , ’ he recalls . |
| 18 | ‘ I had a very close relationship with Johanna and she was good fun to be with , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Well , I suppose you 'd say that Elise and I had a very close relationship for a time . ’ |
| 20 | Mr. Jenkins and I had a very nice friend who came from Italy . |
| 21 | I am never surprised when after a holiday a colleague or neighbour tells me ‘ I had a very nice holiday but I must say it 's nice to get back to work ’ . |
| 22 | Kind people ON Friday , May 28 , I was on my way home to Maghull from Central Station when I had a very nasty fall on the escalator . |
| 23 | But I had a very nasty moment when she first told me . ’ |
| 24 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 25 | , . I had a very serious patient er , the other day , and I treated him and gave him six months to live , but at the end of six months , he did n't pay his account , so I gave him another six months . , . |
| 26 | ‘ I had a very fair hearing and accept the stewards ' decision . |
| 27 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 28 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 29 | This was partly due to the fact that I did n't really understand what I was supposed to be doing and partly because I had a very intricate felt-pen and biro decoration to complete on my pencil case ( which obviously took priority over maths work ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I had a very enlightening conversation about the whole subject with the young man who 's staying with you at the moment . ’ |