Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw that I had new books by my bedside . |
| 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 did not say that I had irrefutable evidence . |
| 4 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 5 | The very existence of the flood — the fact that I had invited it into my awareness — showed that I had emotional ‘ work ’ to do . |
| 6 | I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so , saying that I had early afternoon lessons . |
| 7 | ‘ That I had many acquaintances named Svend and that none of them would run off with a teenager . ’ |
| 8 | You got all in that , English there , English there , English there and English there , and that I had six merit points yesterday . |
| 9 | But when you hear some of the songs , you must think , ‘ That really worked ; yes I 'm glad that I had that bit of inspiration there ’ ? |
| 10 | And there were never any fights that I had that I can remember between men and women or anything like that . |
| 11 | She then ate a prawn fried in flour and egg , saying : ‘ I like that I had that last night . ’ |
| 12 | The nineteenth-century physiologist , physicist and psychologist , von Helmholtz , who contributed substantially to every discipline that he engaged in , described the process thus : It was always necessary , first of all , that I should have turned my problem over on all sides to such an extent that I had all its angles and complexities " in my head " and could run through them freely without writing … |
| 13 | Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded . |
| 14 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 18 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 19 | Would that I had such help as men must have , |
| 20 | I feel that , apart from this , you showed an interest in me and my development which enabled me to grow both in the exercise of my talents and in the confidence that I had such talents . |
| 21 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 22 | Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division . |
| 23 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 24 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 25 | No matter that I had little knowledge of regional variety . |
| 26 | And it meant that I had free access to the whole of the so much so , I had a key to the bottom of entry in er access to the firm and I could get in when I liked . |
| 27 | It seemed all wrong that I had horizontal loops across the face of the work . |
| 28 | Mum had a habit , whenever she sent me any distance on an errand , of insisting that I had clean bloomers on , ‘ in case yer get knocked down by a 'orse ’ , which was why I was scared of them . |
| 29 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 30 | ‘ They said that I had enough equity to qualify for a multi-currency loan . |