Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I had any blood on my hands , for I had held her ankles just below the silver bracelets . |
| 2 | I do n't think I had any celery , I had , I had put in whatever I had in the house and sort of various herbs and spices and things . |
| 3 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 4 | I mean I had that go with her . |
| 5 | Here all up here , here in my arms I mean I had seven week physiotherapy on this arm , it 's |
| 6 | I 'd love eating I had roast parsnips , brussel sprouts , carrots , and boiled and baked alaska , and it was really nice . |
| 7 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 8 | But the fact is , at that point , I did n't even know I had any information to feed anybody . |
| 9 | No I did n't know I had these things . |
| 10 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 11 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 12 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 13 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 14 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 15 | I did n't even know you had any dogs . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't know she had two brothers . |
| 17 | Not only was he enjoying trying to blame the fire on Lisa , when surely he must know she had enough problems already , but that reference to ‘ poor , downtrodden Nigel ’ was almost shocking in its coldness . |
| 18 | When Business Age magazine published their list of the richest women in Britain this week , they left Diana 's name off it — because they did n't know she had any dosh of her own . |
| 19 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 20 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 21 | Well she smokes Lambert and Butlers and as I say she had one fag left and she said I have to keep that for Norm . |
| 22 | As I said before a bus was on a certain route number , say you had one Witton what was had now and then , well that that ran from six o'clock in the morning perhaps till eleven o'clock at night . |
| 23 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 24 | So how come you had nine pound last week ? |
| 25 | Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . " |
| 26 | When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine . |
| 27 | But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters . |
| 28 | When they understood what was expected we had few communication problems . |
| 29 | Who were the Magi , what , who where they and I 'll give you an extra mark for each one of their names , I did n't know they had any names . |
| 30 | Those who did know him had little idea that he was a dangerous psychotic , who nurtured a deep hatred for his parents . |