Example sentences of "[pers pn] have an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an extra incentive to put money on the gas giants as havens of life we can note that each of them has an atmospheric layer where there is plenty of warm but polluted water . |
| 2 | Do I have an early memory of misunderstanding , when something I said was misunderstood , perhaps with painful or embarrassing consequences , by a friend , a member of my family or a teacher ? |
| 3 | Can I have an extra bonus point ? |
| 4 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 5 | ‘ I had an odd experience in hospital , ’ Patrick began . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 7 | I had an odd dream last night actually |
| 8 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
| 9 | And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system . |
| 10 | I had an acute sense of the absence of Alison , of the probably permanent loss of her ; I could imagine her beside me , her hand in mine ; and she was human warmth , normality , standard to go by . |
| 11 | After my waters broke I had an uncontrollable urge to push but the midwife told me not to . |
| 12 | To finish I had an amazing acacia honey cheesecake with caramelized satsumas and my gluttonous partner went for chef Vickery 's selection which featured tasty samples of many delicious desserts . |
| 13 | But he was a big man and for some reason I had an unhealthy picture of him being more than able to do something unspeakable to Tonka toys . |
| 14 | I shivered as if I had an actual fever , smoked a dozen cigarettes and drank half a bottle of Cyprus sherry . |
| 15 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 16 | ‘ The midwife disappeared and I had an overwhelming desire to push , which I tried to fight . |
| 17 | ‘ And when I 'd parked the car I had an overwhelming urge to kiss you . ’ |
| 18 | I had an easy 2 hour labour and there I suddenly was , holding my beautiful baby daughter Danielle in my arms and the last thing on my mind from that moment on was work . |
| 19 | I had an easy , comfortable life in Brazil , but , of course , I agreed . |
| 20 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 21 | ‘ I had an awful dream about that galley of ours . |
| 22 | I had an awful pain in my chest and did not know whether it was a coronary or indigestion . |
| 23 | ‘ You must go , ’ she said , ‘ I had an awful time persuading him to see you . |
| 24 | ‘ I had an awful childhood , ’ she wrote later , probably because she ‘ hated ’ her strict , fussy mother , a former governess . |
| 25 | Oh I had an awful last couple of days . |
| 26 | go where ? , huh I , I had an awful night again , I did n't get to sleep till about one or two , I 'm not going to go to bed early again |
| 27 | I said I did I said and I had an awful job to get it out again . |
| 28 | I had an awful dream today , I dreamt my nan , and I woke up and I 'm crying . |
| 29 | Cos I had an awful experience about ooh , four years ago , I had this old Moggy Morris Minor coming along very slowly north of Hull it was and this chap and his about finished work you know , so I going past this cri , there 's a cricket match going on and he was looking like , I could see and his girlfriend ! |
| 30 | I had an unsettling experience on Thursday . |