Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I realized that I had a splitting headache and that my knee joints were uncertain of their purpose when I stood up . |
2 | He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did . |
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 | " It was n't that I had a louder voice.Just more resonant . |
7 | I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job . |
8 | The presence of all these species also meant that I had a good chance of spotting the birds that preyed on them . |
9 | It was fortunate that I had a good friend of my own age , also called Wanda : we relished being gloomy together . |
10 | I can remember my grandfather , in the 1940s , telling me that I had a good bump of location . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It was fortunate that I had a little time to accustom myself to being in such a place and to the thought of seeing my father . |
14 | ‘ It would n't be very nice , would it , if I had to tell people that I had a mean niece . ’ |
15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | I remember that I had a bad feeling about it . |
18 | But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation . |
19 | Eventually the three of us were alone again , and I remembered that I had a large loft . |
20 | In my case , I think it helped that I had a modest aptitude for football . |
21 | Suffice it , that I had a few moments of fanciful pleasure . |
22 | But they loved me so passionately that I had a secure base to my life . ’ |
23 | 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 . |
24 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
25 | ‘ Did n't I mention that I had a bullet-proof skull ? ’ |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The House of Lords eventually upheld her right , recognising that she had a genuine interest , but providers of information ( particularly the BMA ) and social services staff were extremely uneasy about the apparent danger to confidentiality of client files . |
30 | Knowing that she had a long day in front of her , Laura decided to follow her friend 's good example . |