Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] had [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | What , after all , could be more suitable for the Lionisers than the hotel within whose walls Dickens spent so much time , and where he had completed Nicholas Nickleby , the Albion ‘ where we had that merry night two years ago ’ , he wrote to his friend Forster , an occasion made the merrier by indulgence in the landlord 's ‘ excellent hollands ’ . |
2 | The fans are more fanatical and although we had some great times at Goodison , this could be something else . |
3 | And after that came this unofficial parade organized by Trade Unions and also , Moscow Voting Associations , so we had this peculiar spectacle of this radical Mayor of Moscow , newly elected Gavrielle Popov , standing up there , shoulder to shoulder with President Gorbachev and Yigor Ligicharf and er Defence Minister , Mick Dimitriargo , amongst others . |
4 | Although he had many substantial patrons , Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s . |
5 | Once it had this raw patch on its nose and I went with Davey when he took it to the vet . |
6 | And if I had this cold feeling , the operation in most cases failed too . |
7 | I — think if I had some fresh air today I should feel much better , if I went down to the sea , perhaps . ’ |
8 | ‘ I 'd make us a cup of tea if I had some clean water , ’ Mrs Lennox said . |
9 | I 've often thought it might be better if I had more intimate knowledge . |
10 | In any case if I had any spare money it would go on clerical assistance . |
11 | ‘ If I had any political objectives I would have been sitting in my cantonment ( barracks ) scheming and planning , ’ Gen Beg said . |
12 | I was doing the scrubbing and Changez was miserably holding the bucket in the deserted shop and asking me if I had any more Harold Robbins novels he could borrow . |
13 | Well , we had about an hour of this and then she asked me if I had any romantic plans of my own . |
14 | He asked me if I had any special skills . |
15 | And erm , they lived in this little cottage and erm every night erm the moth , she would always stay up really late and the mother and erm her son would go to bed and she would always go out of this erm go out of the house every night and she would go , cos she had these three fingers which were blades |
16 | He also asked if she had any sexual problems sleeping with her boyfriend . |
17 | Perhaps she would n't get another book published if she had enough bad reviews , he hoped . |
18 | Right if you had that new bed then |
19 | Yeah I mean I do n't know if I , I do n't , I 'm not saying I could I 'm just saying I bet if you had all that pressure then you would think of it differently . |
20 | ‘ I know , I know , it 's early days , as you said — but you 're just not the type to let him go this far if you had any serious doubts . ’ |
21 | Can image if we had all these people , and |
22 | that 'd be that 'd go round three people evenly so that 'd be a third if we had these two pieces stuck together that 'd be a third |
23 | Uncle if we had some other places in do we get more points cos Sahara Desert is where we |
24 | The mining conglomerate , the government service organisation , the wines and spirits company and the industrial investment group simply answered ‘ No ’ when asked if they had any poaching-prevention plans . |
25 | We circulated a letter to various individuals in the field asking if they had any unpublished records we might need . |
26 | ‘ And then Crom Croich eats the hearts , ’ said the soldier , and Cathbad , who had been very busy all afternoon supervising the skinning and jointing of an ox and had been planning to serve braised ox heart for tomorrow 's midday meal , turned quite green and tried to remember if they had any salted pig left . |
27 | One would have been enough , if they had any good arguments or data which er they did n't have . |
28 | ‘ We always tried to talk somewhat in codes , ’ he said , remembering Calero talking to North about arms on a pay-phone from San Francisco , ‘ so whoever was listening would n't quite be able to understand it ; but if they had any common sense , they probably could . ’ |
29 | If they had more efficient stockbrokers , they might indeed have broken away from Harvard long before . |
30 | He wondered if they had some other sort of beam they could train on him , which would make him forget things , or make his attention wander . |