Example sentences of "had this " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters for the moment is to examine the contention that the Roman catholic church had this special position only because of this matter of fact . |
| 2 | ‘ I had this crazy idea of trying to get to Rome . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , you are on the big side and for a moment I had this vision of you … ’ |
| 4 | She had this absurd desire to swing Lucy round like a child and walk holding her hand . |
| 5 | I mean , we had this goddawful evening . |
| 6 | How often had this meant an edgy evening , when she had been unable to concentrate on what people were saying because of an ill-placed fabric rose or an over-embroidered antique shawl ? |
| 7 | Perhaps the Austria Vienna spokesman , Peter Mueller , had this in mind when he said yesterday : ‘ Compared with previous UEFA decisions in similar cases , Ajax 's punishment is very harsh . ’ |
| 8 | Of course , everyone I had met today had this wide-eyed look ; the wounded , the jeep drivers , and the Commandos occupying the weapon pits . |
| 9 | ‘ I had this thing in my mind that she had to be in a place where I could get to her and she would be well looked after . ’ |
| 10 | Later in life Ramsey denied that Temple had this supposed effect upon him . |
| 11 | And against the archbishops Bevir had this on his side . |
| 12 | I thought maybe he 'd convinced Malcolm that he was overweight — which he was n't — and Malcolm had this real thing about us looking the part . |
| 13 | Then he had this roll of notes . |
| 14 | So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses . |
| 15 | none of Britain 's filmmaking companies had this level of entrepreneurial energy . |
| 16 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 17 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 18 | Anyway , they all came in and we had this instant party which was very pleasant . |
| 19 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 20 | We had this debate all the time amongst us — who was the actual person behind the grand design ? |
| 21 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 22 | We acted as if we owned RCA , that we were RCA , that we had this corporation . |
| 23 | They had this entire set-up . |
| 24 | There was very little noise as no-one had arrived — between twenty and thirty people were in the room — and we had this teeny stereo system about as big as a transistor radio for music . |
| 25 | He decided , to make sure he had this clear . |
| 26 | I had this from a bible student named Johan , one of the new doom-mongers , who believes in apocalypse , not ‘ now ’ but ‘ now-now ’ , as South Africans say , meaning pretty damn soon . |
| 27 | Lee had a camouflage jacket on and Philip had this feeling that Uncle Walter 's medals were in his pocket . |
| 28 | They all had this word . |
| 29 | Richard Cecil had this thought in the forefront of his mind , writing in his journal about his early life before his conversion to ‘ vital religion ’ : |
| 30 | He had this load of dead-weights working for him , old lasses that should have been given the boot years ago . |