Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know it 's a bit of tenuous link but there we are — other than that I 've no great claims to knowing any Leeds players |
| 2 | I realized that I had a splitting headache and that my knee joints were uncertain of their purpose when I stood up . |
| 3 | Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis . |
| 4 | ‘ The way you 're likely to believe that I had a sneaking admiration , a liking for this little harbinger of bad news ? |
| 5 | And so it was not until January , four months after moving in , that I had a reasonable chance of settling down . |
| 6 | I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job . |
| 7 | The presence of all these species also meant that I had a good chance of spotting the birds that preyed on them . |
| 8 | It was fortunate that I had a good friend of my own age , also called Wanda : we relished being gloomy together . |
| 9 | I can remember my grandfather , in the 1940s , telling me that I had a good bump of location . |
| 10 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | I will always maintain that I had a good time in service , and from what I heard there were n't many bad places in the Teesdale area — just the odd one here and there . |
| 12 | ‘ It would n't be very nice , would it , if I had to tell people that I had a mean niece . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It was explained to me that I had a mild form which was affecting the part of the brain that triggers migraine , which is why I was having sickness attacks and blinding headaches behind the eyes . ’ |
| 14 | Not that I had a bad opinion of his character , ( I do n't know him ) , it is just that I feel most other clubs would not have even responded to you . |
| 15 | I remember that I had a bad feeling about it . |
| 16 | But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation . |
| 17 | Eventually the three of us were alone again , and I remembered that I had a large loft . |
| 18 | In my case , I think it helped that I had a modest aptitude for football . |
| 19 | But they loved me so passionately that I had a secure base to my life . ’ |
| 20 | The most obvious revelation was that I had a very ow opinion of myself and was constantly seeking the approval of others , because my mother had always withheld approval . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , what if I purchased two lots which added up to less than fifty pounds , could I pay for them with a personal cheque , assuming , of course , that I had a valid cheque card ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Did n't I mention that I had a bullet-proof skull ? ’ |
| 23 | This time my reaction to the knowledge that in all probability cancer was back with me and that I had a dreaded secondary was quite different from my reaction on first being told of the disease six months earlier . |
| 24 | Daphne was a curlyheaded blonde known as ‘ Snooty ’ , and although we were not natural friends , our predilection for cream buns brought us together — especially when she discovered that I had a never-ending source of supply . |
| 25 | I had to hang blankets over the windows at night , and in the morning they were so heavy with moisture that I had a proper job taking them down . |
| 26 | I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . |
| 27 | Then , I believe , she was grateful that I had no prior distractions in my life . |
| 28 | The implications were that I had no physical characteristics of my own , but that in the same way as I ‘ had ’ my father 's nose , or my grandmother 's eyes , I somehow inhabited a body which was not mine but a replica of my mother 's , and over which , therefore , I had no control . |
| 29 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 30 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |