Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] had [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 2 | When I got into Holloway they have them little forms and they 've got pictures of a body with all arrows and everything , and where I had any bruises the doctor put these marks . |
| 3 | Do n't you know that Freddie Nash is now sharing Major Hallett 's cottage , where we had that party before Christmas ? |
| 4 | What , after all , could be more suitable for the Lionisers than the hotel within whose walls Dickens spent so much time , and where he had completed Nicholas Nickleby , the Albion ‘ where we had that merry night two years ago ’ , he wrote to his friend Forster , an occasion made the merrier by indulgence in the landlord 's ‘ excellent hollands ’ . |
| 5 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 6 | Blair and I also walked out to another , superb loch where we had splendid sport , Scarilode ; about two hours ' walk along a good track from Market Stance , past Rueval , where Charles Edward Stewart lay waiting for Flora Macdonald , prior to his flight from the Hebrides . |
| 7 | Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything ! |
| 8 | He pointed out the pebbled street in front of park 's Guest House where they had first stayed and a bungalow they had taken between the church and the golf links . |
| 9 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 10 | On the one hand , the new owners of great country houses accepted the life of the landed gentleman , even where they had little land . |
| 11 | I kept banging my way to and from the can , where they had incredible pictures of nude chicks front magazines all over the wall . |
| 12 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone Park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 13 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 14 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 15 | He knew where he would find her : there at the edge of the temple pool where they had last spoken . |
| 16 | In 1895 he was appointed to succeed William Adams [ q.v. ] as locomotive superintendent of the London and South Western Railway , where he had new and well-equipped locomotive workshops built in Eastleigh to replace the existing inadequate facilities in Nine Elms in London . |
| 17 | Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock . |
| 18 | He was thus well fitted for his long stint as justiciar of Ireland ( 1245–56 ) , where he had private interests through the dower of his wife , Isabel ( daughter of Hugh Bigod , third Earl of Norfolk ) , who was the widow of Gilbert de Lacy of Meath . |
| 19 | Half a mile away smoke still rose from Dangerfield 's machine , where he had crash-landed on fire after stopping a burst of tracer in the wing . |
| 20 | HP 's Larry Lytle , loaned to the Open Software Foundation back at its inception to handle recruiting , has made a 180 degree turn after a stint at Netwise as strategic relations director where he had philosophical differences with OSf : He 's now gone to Unix System Labs as director of corporate communications . |
| 21 | Mr Birt was headhunted as a freelance from London Weekend Television six years ago where he had similar tax arrangements with the commercial station . |
| 22 | He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately . |
| 23 | Sold as a two-year-old at the Doncaster Sales to race in Spain , he won a number of races in that country — where he had seven trainers — before making his mark internationally when winning the Prix du Cadran in France as a four-year-old . |
| 24 | By 1668 Fromanteel himself had moved to The Hague , where he had earlier trading and perhaps family connections . |
| 25 | On the same day that he received Palmerston 's letter , he replied that he had not intended to say that Gothic was re-established as the leading English architecture of the day , but rather its history and origin made a strong case for its revival in those countries where it had first flourished . |
| 26 | This orientation , Siemens suggests , was imposed from Teotihuacan where it had special astronomical and ritual significance . |
| 27 | The failure of the Warsaw uprising , where it had several adherents among the Russian officers of the garrison , dealt the organization a severe blow . |
| 28 | He turned out to be an efficient chairman of the BBC but my first impression was amply confirmed since , although I had frequent dealings with him , he seemed to have absolutely no interest in what to me really mattered . |
| 29 | ‘ They were mainly people with offices or garages although I had one or two with large country houses . ’ |
| 30 | Although I had considerable doubts as to whether Lord Goodman would on the whole be a happier and more contented human being than Mr Goodman , or whether in fact it would not be a prefix that would be more of an incubus than a blessing , vanity as always prevailed . |