Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] had some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I expect it had some help , then , ’ said Dorcas . |
2 | When I was in the U.S. recently for the Walker Cup match I had some time to read their golf magazines , watch television golf and talk with some of the golf club members of my father-in-law 's country club . |
3 | And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling . |
4 | Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her . |
5 | Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second |
6 | Because he had taught school before becoming a Fed he had some experience of kids . |
7 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
8 | I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out . |
9 | the erm , you know they had some sausage left over , so I thought if I cook them then you know , if you wanted to we could cook the ham |
10 | my travel agent fixed the tickets — i guess he had some problems as we got standing tickets ( ie no seats ) … i saw a poster or something mentioning that tickets for newcastles home games vs us and scum will only be available by mail requests ( sort of a lottery i guess ) with only 2 tickets pr request . |
11 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
12 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
13 | She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said . |
14 | ‘ I saw you had some books on birds . ’ |
15 | Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me . |
16 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
17 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
18 | You remember you always thought he had some secret . ’ |
19 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
20 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
21 | I mixed I had some Malibu . |
22 | ‘ I think she had some idea , that 's why she chose the gynae clinic . |
23 | cos I was in here and er I think she had some paint in her hand |
24 | I wish I had some money to give her , but I ai n't got none left . |
25 | I wish I had some bread — I like feeding the ducks . |
26 | I wish I had some bread to give them ; I spect they 're hungry . |
27 | ‘ I only wish I had some anecdotes of my own to compete with yours . ’ |
28 | aye , she said she had some chicken |
29 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean said she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
30 | And when Mrs Knight said she had some costume jewellery in the house he followed her straight into her bedroom where he started going through her drawers . |