Example sentences of "[pron] had [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had agonised over its content , discussing it with Caroline , my wife , who knew the reservations I had over the job I was doing .
2 I was now completely in the dark and it was here that I would shoot whatever film I had onto the skirting board of my makeshift cinema .
3 ‘ The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’
4 Stunned , Dustin felt it was ‘ the single greatest moment I had as an actor . ’
5 Oh I had about a shilling pocket money I think , although they used , they 'd fine you , they 'd stop money off you if you were late if you were a quarter of an hour late you could n't go in and erm until , and then you 'd got to explain to your mums , well that you were some money short you see , why is this , and we had to say well we were a bit late getting in when you started out soon enough you see .
6 I had about a mile to go , and it was the longest mile I have ever covered in my life .
7 I had about a fortnight there .
8 ‘ I used the only fact I had about the man who had dealt with the News of the World .
9 And I 'll write about the strange talk I had with the Nielsen woman .
10 I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go .
11 On the contrary , the differences between us seemed to strengthen the bond I had with the boy : when we grew up , we were going to get married and have babies .
12 Oh I had with the other , I would n't go back
13 I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted .
14 Well this is the one with the business I had with the library .
15 But I have to restrict myself , otherwise I will face the same problem I had with the books — the lack of somewhere to lodge all these wonderful toys .
16 ‘ I did not want to lower my standards and lose the special relationship I had with the fans .
17 The only problem I had with the book is that it is hinged on the premise that hardened psychopaths are capable of deep love — somehow that does n't ring true .
18 I thought I had for a moment . ’
19 But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children !
20 A day I had on the Severn some years ago exemplifies the contrariness of chub .
21 ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’
22 And that 's what makes , that 's how it is , that 's the only , only step I had on the way you know what you 're doing .
23 So then I had on the train .
24 I had on the Ring of Luned that brings invisibility , and I saw the Glass Castle and the chains hanging in the Great Tower .
25 I had on the programme Brahms 's Fourth Symphony and at the rehearsal Lamond said to me , ‘ You know , I knew Brahms ; I heard him conduct this piece . ’
26 Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’
27 No I had , I had of the chemist in Chapel because it came
28 I had to a man with the stick earlier .
29 But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown !
30 I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce .
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