Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was in case I had a ‘ hypo ’ , ’ she recalls . |
| 2 | From the ramparts I had a view across the bay to green marshes and , far above them , rising above a swathe of cloud , the snow-covered summit of Olympus , infinitely remote . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just a knack and a not entirely reliable one , ’ the Doctor replied , ‘ but of course I had a very good teacher . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I had a mother . |
| 5 | done a financial and er my er , this afternoon I had a guy come in with a Capri , bloody welding that thing needs doing , I do n't think he 'll get it done , so I was , I was |
| 6 | Later that afternoon I had an audience with the opera 's new boss . |
| 7 | After re-decorating my kitchen I had a nearly new vegetable rack spare . |
| 8 | That 's it you 've got track erm how would you spell luck someone had a lot of good luck ? |
| 9 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 10 | In the spare bedroom I had a demountable work-bench with a vice and an array of small tools . |
| 11 | As a result I had a very pleasant , stress-free , pain-free labour and delivery . |
| 12 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ In the high flourishing finance days of MainMan I had a secretary , a wonderful car , limousines everywhere , and bills paid for everything at places like Bloomingdales . |
| 13 | And so I when I got back from the talk I had a look and sure enough there are , throughout the British Isles there are five New Brightons . |
| 14 | A month later I saw something bright green there , and after six months I had a very small field of corn . |
| 15 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 16 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
| 17 | It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur . |
| 18 | ‘ And when I 'd parked the car I had an overwhelming urge to kiss you . ’ |
| 19 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
| 20 | My Lords , i in effect I had a Power of Appointment and in effect it was very badly needed . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll remember my sayin' I had a few aces up m'sleeve , when we discussed our lack of numbers an ’ the possibility of these people operatin' outside patrols ? ’ |
| 22 | When I started discussions with the social services department I had an open mind about the service to be delivered . |
| 23 | It was only water that was let into a confined space but we had a Sports Association which had a section for the swimming and er I way remember bought a couple of old single decker buses from somewhere , I do n't know where and he had them fitted out and rigged up at Stoke Bathing Place , especially for us to go there and change and w we did have quite a good strong section , we used to hold our , an annual what you call a regatta , or , no not a regatta but er in the St Matthew 's Swimming Baths a festival , a swimming festival a gala , yes |
| 24 | It ran from the end of the road , pulled by a rather weary horse which had a habit of stopping suddenly to the dismay of its passengers . |
| 25 | Erm there was the London Fire Brigade which had a band , erm and the Yorkshire Fire Brigade which had a band , but there was no brass band as such in this part of the world . |
| 26 | Erm there was the London Fire Brigade which had a band , erm and the Yorkshire Fire Brigade which had a band , but there was no brass band as such in this part of the world . |
| 27 | Her beautiful red hair was arranged in its usual chaotic beehive , but there was something strange about her eyes which had a curious bruised look about them . |
| 28 | Her partner 's passionate hobby was shooting , and she knew from their telephone calls that he had been spending his spare time at a sports club which had a range . |
| 29 | The problems of financing and supplying expeditions to the continent provoked political opposition which had a wide popular basis and in which some of the nobility allied themselves with the commons in seeking redress for the grievances of the community . |
| 30 | Abdulrahman was a member of a lineage which had a reputation for learning , and hence was vulnerable to arguments that his children ( he had one son and six daughters ) should go to school . |