Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye . |
2 | In Scotland , Members of Parliament from both sides of the House and local government employees and councillors stupidly said that they would continue with the revaluation , and so we had five-year revaluations until 1985 . |
3 | Mums and toddlers thought it was wonderful , we only had half a dozen you see in there cos it was low numbers all round so we had low numbers in the |
4 | So we had this idea of getting other people to buy it with us . ’ |
5 | Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation . |
6 | Perhaps they had more confidence in Mortimer as a commander than they ever had in Edward II : Mortimer held the lordship of Trim ( County Meath ) in right of his wife and although he had been defeated by Edward Bruce in Meath in December 1315 , he had shown some skill in restoring order in Ireland after the Bruce invasion . |
7 | If only they had some grenades of the gas or choke or knockout variety ! |
8 | There were then two lean seasons before suddenly he had another taste of victory in the recent Sunningdale Foursomes . |
9 | He foresaw the decimation of the Hawaiian people ; perhaps he had some premonition of his own end too . |
10 | ‘ Perhaps he had another row with his Mam and Dad , then . |
11 | Cleo Huggins made a tree that had another little notch on top , so it had this kind of Arabic feel . |
12 | She was reasonably attractive , and outgoing , and normally she had little difficulty in establishing cordial relationships in both her working and social life . |
13 | Quite soon we had enough songs for a set . |
14 | Now , she decided , if ever she had that kind of money , she would first ensure that her family would never again , for as long as they lived , be in need . |
15 | Well , you know like she had that problem with her you know |
16 | Also I had drunken row with Jack , day two , for which neither party could bring himself to apologize and which polluted friendship forever . |
17 | Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs . |
18 | This was the Preface to a selection of the poems , which Leavis was to handle roughly , as he felt that Eliot had no business to be praising Tennyson , any more than later he had any business to be endorsing Kipling . |
19 | Clearly he had little aptitude for meekness either . |
20 | Now you had three children within two and a half years . |
21 | Later she would agonise over all the might have beens , but now she had other things on her mind , things that would n't wait . |
22 | Now she had both men in her room upstairs ; she had them standing naked before her . |
23 | For some years now they had licensing agreements with some major U S companies to produce ‘ Laura Ashley ’ designs on sheets and other home furnishings . |
24 | More than 75 million Soviet citizens lived outside their ‘ own ’ republic ( Kazakhstan alone contained more than 100 different nationalities ) , and very often they had little knowledge of the language of the republican majority . |
25 | He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum . |
26 | erm which quite simply I had some money of my own and I was n't that hungry er to jump in to any job at all . |
27 | A year ago I had six boys in my school , now there are none , they get to 11 and think it 's cissy . ’ |
28 | As I was reviewing the material to be used here I had certain issues in my mind which concern the structure and meaning of the support given , based upon the ideas developed by anthropologists and sociologists who have studied kinship in Britain and elsewhere . |
29 | Well she had this cup for him , there was no handle on it and she knew it was the dog 's so |
30 | Yet even she had little access to his inner life . |