Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather .
2 I 'd always wanted a little girl , but one of the students at the door told me I had a beautiful little boy and he was fine .
3 With me I had the two Kens .
4 An ex-agent of mine told me I had the wrong attitude to charity shows ; I did too many .
5 They told me I had an academic future , a considerable future . ’
6 They 're trained to collate evidence about the present , and project it into the future , not to find out what happened fifteen years ago to some one particular person , least of all one with whom I had a slight personal acquaintance .
7 Erm we were asked by the managing director er a man called W P whom I had a great deal of respect for , because he was a , he was a design engineer by trade and , and craft .
8 When the Second World War broke out in Europe , it was difficult to get supplies of helpful books , and when the Japanese came into it after the disaster of Pearl Harbour , I myself , as well as the clergy and students for whom I had a pastoral responsibility , felt the need of prayers to meet the threatening danger , as well as the provision of prayers which would express a Christ-like spirit about war , enemies in war , dangers in war and sufferers in war .
9 One interesting visitor was a man with whom I had a long and interesting talk .
10 They were the faces of two entirely separate people , and try as I would to superimpose them they would n't focus into a single man for whom I had a single , straightforward feeling .
11 The three concerned were TWW , with whom I had the closest ties , Southern Television and Granada .
12 Meanwhile Dr. Elliott Gabellah , acting President of the African National Council — with whom I had the good fortune to breakfast , morning after morning , at the Caux world assembly last August — is conferring with Presidents Kaunda and Nyerere in Zambia .
13 I also enclose a bill you sent to the previous tenant of this flat , for whom I have no forwarding address .
14 I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women .
15 When I have to answer them I have some difficulty defending Members of the House , for whom I have a high regard and affection , if they behave badly , but such bad behaviour does not always come from the same side of the House .
16 There is no leader with whom I have a deeper sense of personal friendship and gratitude. *
17 He is a man for whom I have the greatest admiration .
18 It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off !
19 Yeah I I had a vague recollection of you drinking Newcastle Brown sometime and quite liking it .
20 And that 's I I had a quick er look through last year 's sales and and laid out in fact I went through item deliveries and worked them into the months
21 Actually I was cos I I had the back door open and I thought I 'll just leave it and if he wants to come in he can and I poured him a a bit of a drink of milk and er , then I went in the kit , in the bathroom and the door was still open and then suddenly I thought God I wonder where he was ?
22 But he is someone I have the greatest admiration for .
23 Either a partner has financial troubles , which means you must take greater responsibility , or someone you have an emotional or financial link with will make it hard for you to enjoy the fruits of success .
24 It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole .
25 Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there .
26 I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests .
27 ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel .
28 ‘ An eternity of time passed during which I had a blazing row with a nosy seagull which kept hovering over me .
29 Er then I went on to Buffalo and Niagara falls and crossed over to Canada which I had a few friends there .
30 He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters .
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