Example sentences of "[pron] had [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence . |
| 2 | ‘ I had four solos throughout the set , which is quite generous really . |
| 3 | I had four months on permanent duty here . |
| 4 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 5 | Although I was hungry , I had great difficulty in digesting and so my nights were bad . |
| 6 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
| 7 | And I I think I had great admiration for the er in particular for the the woman who was the erm president of the tenants association . |
| 8 | I had great hopes for him , and for the school under his leadership . |
| 9 | I also did a great deal of business with Alfred Gates , director of Ackermann 's , and I had great respect for him . |
| 10 | ‘ I had five lines of dialogue , ’ he reflects . |
| 11 | Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded . |
| 12 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
| 13 | The next farm in place and that was dairy cattle , I had five cows to milk then by hand , but only in the morning . |
| 14 | I had five shots of local anaesthetic , and after about 10 minutes the surgeon pulled out this wriggling black larva and everyone burst into applause , but the photographer said , ‘ Oh , I missed that , can you put it back in so I can take a shot ? ’ |
| 15 | I had grander plans for my future than that . |
| 16 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 17 | I had tremendous rows with Planxty , especially when I feel people are n't giving good value for money . |
| 18 | She now speaks of those hours of heady emotion in a voice of wry amusement : ‘ I had tremendous hopes in my heart . ’ |
| 19 | And I had total confidence in Robin as , very touchingly , he had in me when we climbed on the mountain . |
| 20 | I told him I had twenty-two men with me , armed with fourteen rifles , as well as my own three rifles and shotgun . |
| 21 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 22 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 23 | In these respects I had many discussions with Guevara , who himself disclosed his loss of marxist illusions . |
| 24 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 25 | I had such hopes for them , and was even pleased when , at the age of seven , Paheri asked to enter the priesthood . |
| 26 | I had such hopes for him ! |
| 27 | I wanted to hate him for doing this to me , so much earlier than I had thought it would be done , but it was difficult to hate a man I had such respect for . |
| 28 | If I had flipping cameras round me all the time I 'd tell them where to go . |
| 29 | The camera hones in on a platinum blonde Madonna , poured into a slinky , strapless white dress that she swears ‘ took more fittings than I had shooting days in the movie ’ . |
| 30 | I had one friend from another house who felt the same way as I did about the school and the whole process we were being put through . |