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

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1 I had other people in mind as well actually .
2 Life in a Mayfair rectory suited her very well and she had private means .
3 Just like the World Cup were in my day when you had proper football. ; - ) )
4 Cos we had other people concerned with the stores down in the head office as well , the buyers and .
5 We had good people in south London , but people do n't necessarily like talking to the South East .
6 We had crispy duck and lemon chicken , that 's nice .
7 My father spoke Polish and Russian and my mother spoke French — we had French people there , so I must tell you , I was really lucky , I went through the war without seeing anything horrible — I saw nothing , nothing at all , because nothing happened up there . ’
8 The answer to this question was that they had other means of transport .
9 They had tinned fruit .
10 It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come .
11 If they had important people like er such as Mark and his wife , the pianist , erm you 've heard of him of course .
12 But , as it happened , some of those islands , particularly if they had native people on them , already had pigs too , too — sometimes the small Sulawesi ones .
13 It had large sales for a time in England and America , but it had neither the originality nor the power of his first book .
14 Whether it was because he had other fish to fry is unrecorded , but Hartlepool 's chippies had made the law courts before .
15 His burnished gold hair curled over the high collar of a royal blue coat , and he wore a black velvet waistcoat sprigged with silver leaves , an expensive-looking garment for a young physician unless he had private means .
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