Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the ramparts I had a view across the bay to green marshes and , far above them , rising above a swathe of cloud , the snow-covered summit of Olympus , infinitely remote . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I had a mother . |
| 3 | done a financial and er my er , this afternoon I had a guy come in with a Capri , bloody welding that thing needs doing , I do n't think he 'll get it done , so I was , I was |
| 4 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 5 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ In the high flourishing finance days of MainMan I had a secretary , a wonderful car , limousines everywhere , and bills paid for everything at places like Bloomingdales . |
| 6 | And so I when I got back from the talk I had a look and sure enough there are , throughout the British Isles there are five New Brightons . |
| 7 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 8 | My Lords , i in effect I had a Power of Appointment and in effect it was very badly needed . |
| 9 | Hell , it was n't her fault she had a scoundrel for a grandson . |
| 10 | Mrs Sugar used to curl her hair with rags and take snuff , and every Saturday she had a bet on the horses . |
| 11 | Mrs Sugar used to curl her hair with rags and take snuff , and every Saturday she had a bet on the horses . |
| 12 | Er what is anything is being done about supplying er inclement weather conditions such as the snow we had a couple of years ago . |
| 13 | So just just small movements of the feet I 'm not talking well there 's a classic one I had when I was at college we had a lecturer imagine a big lecture theatre you know two hundred people and there was there was a board and he presented his lecture like this , plenty of foot movement but he presented his lecture like and he just walked up and down . |
| 14 | W. S. We had a bobby , Basil Rose , afraid of nothing . |
| 15 | W. S. We had a chap with us called Bob Freeborough , a Super . |
| 16 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 17 | On Tuesday he had a temper tantrum on the school bus and then kicked the school secretary . |
| 18 | He indicated to the 38-year-old cashier he had a gun , but no weapon was seen during the incident . |
| 19 | Ma Smith took in gentlemen paying guests and for his outlay he had a bedroom , a personal sitting room and the dedicated service of the widowed Mrs Smith and her daughters . |
| 20 | In his heyday he had a memory like a clamp . |
| 21 | When he came out into the bright white daylight he had a shock . |
| 22 | But now , at last , in Lucy he had a person ideally suited to his purposes … a person who was subject to a very powerful propensity . |
| 23 | Today for lunch I had a club sandwich and apple pie with ice-cream . |
| 24 | On our way to the oasis of Bahriyah in the western desert I had a misadventure with my hat . |
| 25 | ‘ When I was a little girl I had a rag doll … the only doll I ever owned . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ When I was a little girl I had a rag doll … the only doll I ever owned . ’ |
| 27 | In January I had a book published . |
| 28 | In exchange I had a view over the wide , flat-bottomed valley , a view that dissolved into the fish-fin ridge on the far side . |
| 29 | On a particularly difficult issue she had a habit of canvassing everyone privately , except the person directly involved , so that when the matter was finally aired she would already be in command of all views . |
| 30 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |