Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] had a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I do n't think I had a great deal to do with it . ’
2 ‘ There was really no need — I realised I had a sweet and cheeses , you must have been starving . ’
3 That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off .
4 Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just
5 However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards .
6 Oh I do n't know I had a subjugated about that .
7 I have to pick it up , she said oh that 's good , as I say I had a brilliant interview when the other members of staff come Steve and erm , I forget what the girl 's name was , but she 's already had a
8 " I did n't know you had a set time for dealing with housing . "
9 Never having been aboard a ship before , she found she had a natural liking for the sea life : she suffered no seasickness at all , and as João had sent an excellent chef to cook her meals , she dined well and developed a taste for the green wine of Portugal .
10 Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent .
11 Dr Howe … an Oxford graduate … had been a tutor in English at the Open University based at Foxcombe Hall in Oxford for the past two years … she 's recently published her first book … through Cambridge university Press called the First English Actresses … colleagues say she had a bright future .
12 Glad to know you had a good visit to — but am amazed you only used ten units of electricity .
13 Nothing was said to indicate she had a proprietary interest in the house .
14 Says Payne : ‘ We found we had a tremendous amount in common , a real northern European outlook with people from the Pacific rim , Siberia or the Russian heartlands .
15 ‘ Allowing for the generation gap , we found we had a surprising amount in common .
16 I did n't know they had a big library .
17 And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself !
18 The morning crew were a little surprised to find they had a new colleague but none of them was unduly perturbed by the intrusion .
19 However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges .
20 The children say they had a great time , eating sweets and with a pirate on board their bus .
21 They say they had a good hearing
22 They say they had a good hearing
23 Probably turn round say they had a five hundred million pound turnover last year right .
24 Joe went downstairs to have a word with the Beavis family , to let them know he had a young woman upstairs and why .
25 With a sort of tragic turn of fate , she did not know he had a mad wife .
26 I expect he had a smooth stick for himself did he ?
27 they mentioned he had an excellent game — and from the goals showed the scot goalkeeper could have done much better on two of the italian goals … specially the first one — a flat shot from far out and at an angle too .
28 So somehow it was reassuring to find he had a sore throat when I saw him last Thursday .
29 We found he had a whole store of out of door knowledge which he was quite ready to impart .
30 Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics
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