Example sentences of "[pron] had an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't float in the air it drops down to ground level and some years ago , when I was based in Ashfield , I had an experience of this . |
| 2 | I had an experience with a bike when I was very small a girl up the road was given a bike and I had quite quietly learnt how to ride a bike more or less . |
| 3 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 4 | In a study of management development some colleagues and I had an opportunity to identify some conceptions in the minds of managers about management ( Lawrence , et al. , 1975 ) . |
| 5 | Last summer , I had an opportunity to live and work in rural Czechoslovakia , a very different culture . |
| 6 | Dean agreed : ‘ I had an opportunity to watch Jimmy a couple of times from short leg in my first season here , and I realised then that he does n't go very far forward . |
| 7 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 8 | While we talked , I had an opportunity of glancing round the familiar room , which was even more cluttered than usual . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't fancy having a lot of kids tearing about the house , but , having brought up my own , I did n't feel I had an excuse . |
| 10 | I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs . |
| 11 | I had an Abaya ( the long black gown ) which I had carried with me on the plane and a scarf to cover my hair , so I was able to enter the Ministry of Health without shocking the men too much . |
| 12 | Interchanging them would mean that instead of having an electron " here " and an electron " here " I had an electron " here " and an electron " here " . |
| 13 | I had an MXR Distortion Plus and an MXR Blue Box ( a prehistoric harmonizer making up for its dodgy tracking with an intriguing wobbly sound and some rather excellent white noise — Ed ) . |
| 14 | Of course , I had an eagle 's eye view of developments , knowing far , far more about their strengths and weaknesses than they individually could . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I had an affair with my brother-in-law donkey 's years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ I told you I had an affair with the Saatchi woman . |
| 17 | How many people go back home and say I had an affair ? |
| 18 | Like Lotus 1-2-3 and SuperCalc , Quattro Pro 's printer support is very good — although having to tell all these programs individually that I had an HP LaserJet IIIsi made me realize how easy it is telling Windows just the once for all your applications . |
| 19 | I had an idea that if I dropped this diaper when we unloaded our bombs , it might help some mother . |
| 20 | I had an idea though . |
| 21 | ‘ I had an idea , ’ she said slowly . |
| 22 | I had an idea that I should make a show of dignity and tried to do this by looking straight ahead , as if the crowds moving up and down the platform were beneath my notice . |
| 23 | I had an idea . |
| 24 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 25 | Then I had an idea which I would like to try out on you . |
| 26 | Suddenly I had an idea . |
| 27 | I had an idea . |
| 28 | Suddenly , I wanted to get away from that place — and I had an idea ! |
| 29 | Really , I was too shagged to bother , but also I had an idea she would pass on peacefully in the night without any more help from me . |
| 30 | After a while , Carson said , ‘ You know , I had an idea earlier . |