Example sentences of "[pron] had [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had grander plans for my future than that . |
| 2 | The Mainbocher triumphs were spiced with occasional purchases in Paris , but on the whole she found French clothes too imposing : ‘ I had better things to do in Paris than go for endless fittings anyway . |
| 3 | I had better things to do than just sit in an office talking . |
| 4 | All you have to do is answer three simple questions , complete the following sentence , ‘ If I had bigger breasts , the first thing I 'd do would be … , ’ and send your answers in on a fax with coupons from any three GenTech products . |
| 5 | Still , I had happier memories of Enniskillen : of the Horseshoe Lounge in the Railway Hotel ( now an hotel without a railway ) and a group named ‘ Country Comrades ’ , who played Irish , Scottish and hillbilly tunes fast and slow , while the crowd whooped and danced merrily ; of hillside fields and haycocks ; of the Bronze Age burial chamber said to be a giant 's grave ; and of tales of the local footpack 's exploits among the Ulster foxes . |
| 6 | Nobody had greater faith in the qualities of Alex James than Alex James himself — not even Herbert Chapman , and that is saying something . ’ |
| 7 | At first , the trade preferred wild-caught pelts , which had denser underfur and better resistance to fading . |
| 8 | Databases which had higher percentages of these citations were considered to have more extensive coverage . |
| 9 | Databases which had higher percentages of these citations were considered to have more extensive coverage . |
| 10 | April 1923 , which had greater significance than was realised then — the Duke of York married lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon , who later became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth — now the Queen Mother . |
| 11 | Each dance followed particular rules laid down by the dancing masters , and this idea continued to prevail even after Gluck began to compose operas and ballets which had greater continuity . |
| 12 | MBFR ( Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction ) talks began at Vienna in 1973 but became deadlocked around questions such as the way in which the forces deployed on both sides should be counted and whether absolute or relative reductions should be made : the first of these suited the East , which had larger totals , but the second was pressed by Western negotiators . |
| 13 | He veered higher over another kind of wood whose trees he did not know but which had lighter bark and were higher . |
| 14 | 'Appen she had better things to do , eh , George ? ’ |
| 15 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 16 | She had better things to do , a world to conquer and so forth , who did he think he was ? — Foreigners can be dogged . |
| 17 | But , she decided , when she got up on Saturday morning , she had better things to do than to let such matters worry her . |
| 18 | With a stuffed-to-capacity briefcase , she had better things to do with her time too , anyway . |
| 19 | She had better legs than Gabriel , and knew it . |
| 20 | It is arguable that the performance measures based on portfolio performance , to which fund managers are currently held , do not provide an environment in which there would be any significant advantage for fund managers who had closer relations with auditors . |
| 21 | The political problems that arise when changes do begin to happen were illustrated by the GP fundholders who had greater freedom than the DHAs . |
| 22 | These requirements were not satisfied in Schroeder because the contract was imposed on the plaintiff by a defendant who had greater bargaining power which he used oppressively . |
| 23 | For it became increasingly obvious that it did not , as had been intended , miraculously detect native intelligence in children however uneducated , but , on the contrary , was strongly biased in favour of middle-class children who had larger vocabularies than their working-class contemporaries , and who were in any case accustomed to tests and examinations . |
| 24 | erm I think it made things a lot cheaper , because you had larger firms able , able to buy in bulk , and also the beginnings of the ready-made market . |
| 25 | One had greater faith on the day that one would be assured of their support — and incidentally the negotiations with the banks were fairly difficult . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , we had better pitches , sure , but we were correspondingly better players . |
| 27 | I warrant that your mama may be wondering where we have got to , we had better enbus for Saltdean . |
| 28 | Several minutes even supposing we had faster-than-light propulsion . |
| 29 | He believed that they had greater capacity to do so than previous generations and hence would be less in need of support from the state when they reached old-age — there was therefore no need to establish complex insurance machinery . |
| 30 | The differences suggest that those in the non-manual occupational groups were more likely to choose early retirement than skilled manual workers , presumably because they had greater resources and hence more freedom of choice . |