Example sentences of "[pron] had [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had five lines of dialogue , ’ he reflects . |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had one pint of er normal Yorkshire , my bitter 's stronger than that |
| 6 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 7 | I had one night of that , and when he came round in the morning , I told him . |
| 8 | Like a good many others , I had one pair of lace-up shoes for winter and a pair of sandals for summer , and that was it . |
| 9 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 10 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
| 11 | And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da ! |
| 12 | I had one piece of butter and jam . |
| 13 | ‘ I had one hell of a hassle when I first came out . |
| 14 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
| 15 | I obviously understood this very well and I had all sorts of |
| 16 | I had two wheels of my own as it happens — still have , in fact . |
| 17 | Knowing I had two members of the local cave rescue team with me , I followed them in . |
| 18 | I had two pairs of Pearl Gouramis in two separate tanks . |
| 19 | Last night , , this Sunday , all I had was a banana at lunchtime , had n't eaten all day or drunk , I had two glasses of water |
| 20 | What I wanted ideally was a situation in which I had two groups of birds , each trained on and showing the disgust response to the bitter bead , but one group then remembering and the other forgetting the association . |
| 21 | I had two days of that with this lad and then off he went . |
| 22 | I had two pieces of toast and an apple . |
| 23 | I used to do it all , I had complete control of the house , now the situation has changed completely . |
| 24 | A very few moments later , Mala and I had firm hold of the contract for the job and were taking our leave of a decidedly miffed Emissary . |
| 25 | He writes : ‘ among [ the Dinka ] I had that experience of daily conversation which enables one to discriminate , as we take for granted in the language into which we were born , between what people mean and what they say . |
| 26 | ‘ If I had that kind of money I would try to go out and buy the best players available — I would pay the price needed as Kenny has done . |
| 27 | ‘ When I was very young I had frequent dreams of Israel and the River Jordan , although I had never been there , and the first word I spoke was ‘ Abba ’ — the Jewish word for father . |
| 28 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 29 | ‘ I had fifteen feet of water land on top of me . |
| 30 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |