Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] had [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut .
2 ‘ They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet … ‘
3 when we us the last two and that one exploded on me I had this and it goes and exploded all over me and went over
4 ‘ I hit my head on the kerb when I fell and when I went to hospital two days later they told me I had severe bruising of the brain , ’ said Walter after his Kempton win on Mithl Al Hawa .
5 Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion .
6 It was Cam Robbie , whom I had last seen during the war twenty-five years earlier , when he was drummer of a rather tatty three-piece outfit in a night-club in George Street .
7 My touching faith in the Chancellor 's resolve and commitment to anti-inflation policy was ridiculed by those with whom I had this discussion , who were obviously much more deeply cynical than I am .
8 I told them I had some wine and we all came back .
9 So I had to look after myself so I I had one and then I had the other one , just stop at two .
10 Oh I I had two on there .
11 Oh yeah , I think , I think it 's because I I had that severe hair style I think , you know I looked hard .
12 It very funny cos I want to , yeah , because I I had such a study on , on United States many rating systems or , it 'll into those houses like .
13 The one we see with five years I said to Bet well it 's bloody cheaper than the one she 's , anyway I I I had enough money on my er thing so
14 I I had this one .
15 I I had this one .
16 I I I I had another piece .
17 Yeah , would you , but a couple of years because John was busy he bought us all tokens , erm , he bought the others tokens from Woolworths and me token from a body shop and we all , and I we had great fun looking and seeing what we wanted to buy with , with the book tokens , er , maybe , maybe I mention it providing we ca n't find anything .
18 Oh no I we had some time off did n't we ?
19 That 's the bloke Emos , anyway , Peg and I we had some fun there all the same .
20 After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession .
21 What I wanted ideally was a situation in which I had two groups of birds , each trained on and showing the disgust response to the bitter bead , but one group then remembering and the other forgetting the association .
22 In each case the accuracy rate concerning events of which I had first-hand knowledge was about 50% ; half the information correct , half wrong .
23 Given that the conductor is Rudolf Barshai , this was a disc of which I had high expectations , and the musicians of the Vancouver SO play the score with an admirable combination of restraint and accuracy which provides , in the end , a rather more affecting experience than some of the more histrionic versions one could name .
24 In 1940 I had prepared an essay on Ivy 's novels , which I had some prospect of placing in Horizon .
25 How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ?
26 Golden Girl had cleared the rocks on which she had first grounded , the wind slithering the lightened catamaran broadside across the sparse grasses sprouting from the leached sandy soil behind the ancient coastline .
27 Swathes of jasmine , loose from a prolifically flowering specimen on the edge of the house , occasionally fell over their railing , with their sweet scent , before Mrs Irving , clothed in her gardening gear of wellingtons and apron over the seated and threadbare tweed suit in which she had first enticed them in , came and bound these back .
28 The play in which she had first appeared was still running ; its clumsy comedy appealed to the audiences who came here .
29 Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him .
30 It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy .
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