Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [pers pn] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , under my contract I had no control over the cover . |
| 2 | After re-decorating my kitchen I had a nearly new vegetable rack spare . |
| 3 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll remember my sayin' I had a few aces up m'sleeve , when we discussed our lack of numbers an ’ the possibility of these people operatin' outside patrols ? ’ |
| 5 | The toilets and bathrooms and showers were at the end of the hall on the second floor , and from my window I had a splendid view of the cathedral , whose Gothic , Renaissance and baroque styles mingled perfectly in the dark-rose-and-amber stone to give it almost the appearance of some natural rock formation . |
| 6 | Without my shoes I had an obvious limp . |
| 7 | In my day we had the As as the top stream ; the Bs and Cs were the mid-range ; the Es were ESN and the Ds were the dustbin men who roamed the yard after break and lunch times collecting empty milk bottles and rubbish . |
| 8 | Two old sisters in Portsmouth kept shops side by side : the great-aunt running a coal shop where ‘ you had to go in there with your pail , and they weighed the coal ’ , with vegetables as a sideline , while ‘ my gran she had a wee shop and she used to sell toffee apples . ’ |
| 9 | And I knew I know this bloke eh , when he was a sergeant I think , anyway he was an officer , and eh , said we go to Sheppeards , I said you silly devil I ca n't get into Sheppeards Hotel I 'm a signal man I had to laugh he said , shame , he said cor , you 're about my size , get stuck into one of my uniforms we had a couple of weekends at Sheppeards Hotel , we had a great time . |
| 10 | For the first time in my life I had a weight problem . |
| 11 | For the first time in my life I had a lover who was a companion . |
| 12 | Erm , well my particular case was cut and dry , no medical miracles , as I say , could help me because I had lost a baby at six months during the labour and erm in order to save to my life I had a hysterectomy so there was no possibility of I V F , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 13 | Wait until I tell my friends I had a date with a doctor this summer . ’ |
| 14 | In my view he had no right . ’ |
| 15 | Alone with my mother I had a sense of impropriety . |
| 16 | Yet Batty noticed that in spite of her reserve she had a way of inspiring people to do things for her . |
| 17 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
| 18 | Hell , it was n't her fault she had a scoundrel for a grandson . |
| 19 | Had Feargal been asking her questions she had no wish to answer ? |
| 20 | She took them off the minute she entered her apartment block , realising that since no one at Vasey 's had seen her without her glasses they had no need to question why she was wearing them now . |
| 21 | I did n't fancy my plaice so I give her mine I had a bit of beef . |
| 22 | The fisheries minister , Thorsteinn Pálsson , justified the move on the grounds that the IWC had in recent years concentrated exclusively on conservation aspects of whaling , while according to its charter it had a twofold task of both conserving and exploiting whales . |
| 23 | The coolly spoken words were like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown in her face , but instead of restoring her composure it had the opposite effect of stoking her anger all the more . |
| 24 | But when I met her and shook her hand I had a feeling which is hard to explain — other people have had the same experience when meeting this lady . |
| 25 | How far they were either north or south of their line they had no means of telling . |
| 26 | How far they were either north or south of their line they had no means of telling . |
| 27 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 28 | Shortly after her rescue she had a foal , and her owner decided to put the mare back in foal again . |
| 29 | However strongly she felt about the rights and wrongs of her situation she had no sense of power over its outcome . |
| 30 | After listening to my Sikh sisters ' accounts of their lives and relationships and the sensitive Izzat of their men I had the feeling that for Sikhs Izzat is not pride or honour — it is male ego , pure and simple . |