Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I had great hopes for him , and for the school under his leadership . |
2 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
3 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
4 | All the same , I had sore feet and was feeling sorry for myself . |
5 | I had tremendous rows with Planxty , especially when I feel people are n't giving good value for money . |
6 | She now speaks of those hours of heady emotion in a voice of wry amusement : ‘ I had tremendous hopes in my heart . ’ |
7 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
8 | If I had flipping cameras round me all the time I 'd tell them where to go . |
9 | The camera hones in on a platinum blonde Madonna , poured into a slinky , strapless white dress that she swears ‘ took more fittings than I had shooting days in the movie ’ . |
10 | I had new locks fitted and — and I just stayed there . |
11 | I saw that I had new books by my bedside . |
12 | Your reception was not courteous , but the Prince and I had other matters to discuss . |
13 | I had other games , but that one always struck me as one of my more mature inventions ; symbolic somehow , and with a nice blend of callousness and irony . |
14 | For my part , I had other preoccupations . |
15 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
16 | I had other things to occupy my mind . |
17 | Asked why he had taken to the streets just hours before polling , he said : ‘ I had other things to do , as you may imagine . ’ |
18 | ‘ No , I had other things on my mind . ’ |
19 | I had other things on my mind . |
20 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
21 | I thought I had other books ? |
22 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
23 | I became incredibly vi er I had violent feelings erm , I wanted to go out on the street and rampage . |
24 | ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’ |
25 | ‘ I had unmarked cars following him . |
26 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
27 | I had strong words about our defending when we went in at half time . |
28 | I thought I had genuine friends at the Oval after six and a half years . |
29 | What was interesting to note — since I had close links there through my association with the British Council — was the reaction in the Foreign Office . |
30 | That one , and I had blue leggings on and everyone was going oh spot the legs , and then just going phew when they walked into the shack or something think , you know , I du n no , I 'm just |