Example sentences of "[pron] had a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least I had a firmer grasp of the industrial development of West Ham and the distinct political culture it had witnessed , particularly during the 1890s . |
| 2 | The thinning out process has been a great shock to me , I had a higher opinion of working class thought — but it is that where the weakness lies , not in our efforts of propaganda . |
| 3 | I think if I had a bigger bust my guts would n't look so big . |
| 4 | I had a closer look at him . |
| 5 | " It was n't that I had a louder voice.Just more resonant . |
| 6 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 7 | Eventually I had a better bite and to my surprise I hauled in a roach of 11b 5oz . |
| 8 | He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did . |
| 9 | Then , when we went back to rotating mentally the computer simulation of the room and attempting to ‘ see ’ possible lines of sight , I had a further shock . |
| 10 | The buyer might end up with a much more expensive house which had a better kitchen . |
| 11 | Then another line developed from the main line of succession of bony-jawed ray-fin fish , which had a tougher fin structure useful for sifting through seabed mud . |
| 12 | Likud faces a strong challenge from the Centre-Left Labour Party , which had a stronger showing in the latest opinion poll published at the weekend . |
| 13 | Viennese modernism , which had a briefer period of flourishing than the modernism of other great cities , was also the least oppositional , the least social-critical , of modernisms . |
| 14 | She had a better idea . |
| 15 | She had a better way of rupturing that patient impassivity , of making him look at her . |
| 16 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 17 | Good God , she was only fourteen she had a deeper voice than |
| 18 | ‘ She had a younger sister . |
| 19 | I think that she had a broader ranger of interest than Jane Austen . |
| 20 | She wished she had a stronger conviction that the Infant of Prague might be any earthly use in keeping her son safe on this terrible machine . |
| 21 | Kempe claimed that it was possible , even a short time after a child was born , to identify those children who had a higher risk of being abused . |
| 22 | Although responders may be biased towards independent , articulate individuals in employment , unemployed people may have had more time to reply , and this is supported by a higher response rate among women , who had a lower employment rate . |
| 23 | A prosthetist who had a lower limb amputation himself stated : ‘ They [ patients ] want to pick your brain for every bit of knowledge they can get . |
| 24 | No one suggested that there was an alternative candidate who had a better chance of defeating Heseltine . |
| 25 | Once William and his wife Mary ( who had a better claim to the throne than her husband ) were established as joint rulers in England they had , like the Republic thirty years earlier , to bring the rest of the territories of the King of England into obedience to the new authority . |
| 26 | There are wonderful paintings collected by earlier monarchs who had a better eye . |
| 27 | With Wilfrid , who had a sharper sense of his own worth than either Benedict or Cuthbert , his relations were more difficult . |
| 28 | He tried to think of a wife who had a larger car than her husband 's and he could n't think of one . |
| 29 | It 's Beethoven 's Ode to Joy , the the last movement of Beethoven 's ninth symphony , erm , you 'd know the tune , you 'd recognise it , particularly if you had a better singer than me on as a accompaniment . |
| 30 | Would your problems be solved if you had a smaller house ? |