Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least I had a firmer grasp of the industrial development of West Ham and the distinct political culture it had witnessed , particularly during the 1890s . |
| 2 | Then I had a worse one . |
| 3 | The thinning out process has been a great shock to me , I had a higher opinion of working class thought — but it is that where the weakness lies , not in our efforts of propaganda . |
| 4 | I think if I had a bigger bust my guts would n't look so big . |
| 5 | Cos what I thought , if I had a bigger you can always turn , you can always turn them up for us sew them and all that . |
| 6 | I had a closer look at him . |
| 7 | " It was n't that I had a louder voice.Just more resonant . |
| 8 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 9 | Eventually I had a better bite and to my surprise I hauled in a roach of 11b 5oz . |
| 10 | He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did . |
| 11 | I had a further powerful incentive to learning the language , for SPG , the missionary society which supported me and thirty or more other missionaries in Burma , men and women , had a rule that no missionary could marry before passing the first two language examinations . |
| 12 | Then , when we went back to rotating mentally the computer simulation of the room and attempting to ‘ see ’ possible lines of sight , I had a further shock . |
| 13 | I had an easier position with the Kirov , because the orchestra started to do much more with me than before , we worked like the Japanese after the Second World War to restore their economy ! ’ |
| 14 | I was from a family in Northern California , about thirty miles out of San Francisco ; I had an older brother who had and still has a great collection of 45s , but we were actually swimmers . |
| 15 | Nick says she had a bigger same d , same dinner as what he did , he said he 's never seen a kid eat like it . |
| 16 | She had a better idea . |
| 17 | She had a better way of rupturing that patient impassivity , of making him look at her . |
| 18 | Rain told him she had a better one and he went with her to listen as she talked to Riley and the lawyer , Wilmot , about the prison release dates . |
| 19 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 20 | Good God , she was only fourteen she had a deeper voice than |
| 21 | ‘ She had a younger sister . |
| 22 | I think that she had a broader ranger of interest than Jane Austen . |
| 23 | She wished she had a stronger conviction that the Infant of Prague might be any earthly use in keeping her son safe on this terrible machine . |
| 24 | She had an older brother , but he was studying architecture in Italy . |
| 25 | Then she had an older one about five and a half so she had four girls . |
| 26 | It 's Beethoven 's Ode to Joy , the the last movement of Beethoven 's ninth symphony , erm , you 'd know the tune , you 'd recognise it , particularly if you had a better singer than me on as a accompaniment . |
| 27 | Would your problems be solved if you had a smaller house ? |
| 28 | Would your problems be solved if you had a smaller house ? |
| 29 | most of the changes that have been made to those houses have been er erm at the request of Newton Sherwood District Council , they the the they lifted the room pitch , we had a lower one , they wanted a higher one , erm , and you know , erm , all all basically erm the the although they counted it as a change since application |
| 30 | My parents , like thousands of other black people , had scrimped and scraped and saved for years to ensure that we had a better life . |