Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | My touching faith in the Chancellor 's resolve and commitment to anti-inflation policy was ridiculed by those with whom I had this discussion , who were obviously much more deeply cynical than I am . |
2 | I told them I had some wine and we all came back . |
3 | The one we see with five years I said to Bet well it 's bloody cheaper than the one she 's , anyway I I I had enough money on my er thing so |
4 | I I I I had another piece . |
5 | This is because I can always ask ‘ Would I still prescribe that action if it was I who had that desire ? ’ |
6 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
7 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
8 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
9 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
10 | Yeah , would you , but a couple of years because John was busy he bought us all tokens , erm , he bought the others tokens from Woolworths and me token from a body shop and we all , and I we had great fun looking and seeing what we wanted to buy with , with the book tokens , er , maybe , maybe I mention it providing we ca n't find anything . |
11 | That 's the bloke Emos , anyway , Peg and I we had some fun there all the same . |
12 | Oh no I we had some time off did n't we ? |
13 | After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession . |
14 | What I wanted ideally was a situation in which I had two groups of birds , each trained on and showing the disgust response to the bitter bead , but one group then remembering and the other forgetting the association . |
15 | In each case the accuracy rate concerning events of which I had first-hand knowledge was about 50% ; half the information correct , half wrong . |
16 | Given that the conductor is Rudolf Barshai , this was a disc of which I had high expectations , and the musicians of the Vancouver SO play the score with an admirable combination of restraint and accuracy which provides , in the end , a rather more affecting experience than some of the more histrionic versions one could name . |
17 | In 1940 I had prepared an essay on Ivy 's novels , which I had some prospect of placing in Horizon . |
18 | How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ? |
19 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
20 | If she mentioned his name in any circle , however jaded it was by gossip , there was always somebody who had some titbit about him . |
21 | There was always schoolteaching , of course , but that would entail the tiresome business of acquiring a Postgraduate Certificate of Education , or else working in the independent sector , to which she had ideological objections . |
22 | Her former Special Adviser , Patrick Cosgrave , recounts how there were only two areas for which she had any respect : |
23 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
24 | In some areas , such as vision , what happens to the food they eat , explanations of day and night , shadows and plant growth , many children had well-established views which they had little difficulty in expressing . |
25 | The inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia had to contend with variations of climate , scorching winds , torrential rains , and devastating floods over which they had little control . |
26 | From this change , it is said , followed another change , from prescribing as the cure more self-help and hard work among the poor , to recognition of the need for government intervention to support the poor in an economic situation over which they had little control ; from ‘ individualism ’ to ‘ collectivism ’ as it is often put . |
27 | Many teachers feel aggrieved at having ‘ taken the rap ’ for the introduction and implementation of theories and methods over which they had little control . |
28 | Their agreement was bought with concessions to certain aspects of sovereignty about which they had strong feelings . |
29 | While a lack of entry qualifications did not rank as the most important reason overall for not doing a course , the 14% who did need entry qualifications may suggest that some of the non-enrollers had insufficient information about the courses they were applying to and , consequently , applied to courses for which they had insufficient entry qualifications . |
30 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |