Example sentences of "[pron] i had a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One interesting visitor was a man with whom I had a long and interesting talk . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | Yeah I I had a vague recollection of you drinking Newcastle Brown sometime and quite liking it . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ An eternity of time passed during which I had a blazing row with a nosy seagull which kept hovering over me . |
| 15 | Er then I went on to Buffalo and Niagara falls and crossed over to Canada which I had a few friends there . |
| 16 | the one who I had a good old snog with |
| 17 | If somebody was interviewed by him and had a bad time , I can tell you I had a bad time , well to me it was a bad time , when I with him and he saw he spoke with me . |
| 18 | Crooning would be the better word for it , and as the word suggested itself I had a swift and vivid mental picture of the colony of birds on the west of the island , birds aggressive , protective , maternal , tender . |
| 19 | maybe she 's got a bug or something , that 's what I had a few weeks ago remember , mm , mm , oh and then to cap it all |