Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit . |
2 | Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye . |
3 | ‘ If only I had that opportunity such a rewarding experience working among people of that type . ’ |
4 | He said , oh if only I had that power ! |
5 | ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening . |
6 | And I put balanced it out across this , and I set my camera down er down below , on a time exposure which runs off in about one minute , so I had one minute to run up the side of the thing and get out here and balance myself . |
7 | and mum had two glass fulls , but she did n't drink hers so I had four glass fulls . |
8 | So I had two families then , the Kilroys , and the Silks . |
9 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
10 | and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know . |
11 | Line bites continued , then at one o'clock I had another bite , again it was a drop bite . |
12 | In I had nine people to call , had evokes the state of having the people on one 's list and is thus expressive of a concrete obligation to call them . |
13 | So nobody had any problems with that . |
14 | How long you had this thing then ? |
15 | Crikey , cos the last time you were down you had that stinker did n't you ? |
16 | Then she had an older one about five and a half so she had four girls . |
17 | So she had great fun making them . |
18 | So you had three children ? |
19 | So you had ten minutes ' free time , a type of reward , if you like , for paying attention and getting on with it . |
20 | Suddenly we had four rooms , a plumbed in bath and no poor Irish downstairs . |
21 | Erm , but in the end th o only one had any impact and in general , see seeing a female professional was , I have to say , a lot more helpful than seeing male professionals . |
22 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
23 | Could n't you have somehow fixed it so we had separate rooms ? ’ |
24 | In Scotland , Members of Parliament from both sides of the House and local government employees and councillors stupidly said that they would continue with the revaluation , and so we had five-year revaluations until 1985 . |
25 | So we had eight people huddled over the desk arguing about the sound . |
26 | Mums and toddlers thought it was wonderful , we only had half a dozen you see in there cos it was low numbers all round so we had low numbers in the |
27 | So we had this idea of getting other people to buy it with us . ’ |
28 | So we had this agreement I would al arrive in a removal van just as assembly finished to start the lessons in the morning and then my removal man would come back and pick me up again at twelve o'clock so that I could then do the two-man jobs . |
29 | So we had another mystery . |
30 | ‘ They used to advocate it for withdrawing heroin addicts — naturally they had little success . |