Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] have [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm only sorry I had a prior engagement , otherwise I 'd have been here much earlier . ’ |
| 2 | Now I was a man of property , the joint owner of a large house in North Oxford , with investments so extensive I had no detailed idea of their scope and access to current and deposit accounts totalling well into six figures . |
| 3 | At half past eight I have a final walk in Buron 's Court , opposite the Royal Hospital Chelsea , and then I go to bed about eleven — hoping it 's a breakfast day tomorrow . |
| 4 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 5 | But despite all this I had a successful Championship , winning the 100 metres and tying , in an exciting race , with John Regis in the 200 . |
| 6 | In this I had the enthusiastic support of the Prime Minister who believed that the state scheme should be replaced by individual private pension provision with a minimum compulsory requirement . |
| 7 | So I , this I have no more room for erm , for glasses . |
| 8 | And of course we 've got this I have a little dog and she loves to roll in this . |
| 9 | I 'd a proper I had a proper drill , oh you 're talking about the new ones ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have no useful contacts in MI5 or MI6 nowadays . |
| 11 | Apart from this she had a great many ‘ mental ’ symptoms — floating feelings , panic attacks , irrational bouts of crying , dizziness , numbness and tingling in her hands and arms . |
| 12 | For this you have a young girl covered in old newspapers held on with scotch tape or cotton . |
| 13 | In this you have the dividing line between business and non-business ; the one is master and depends on profits , the other is servant and depends on salary . ‘ |
| 14 | This is to tell only part of the story however Anna is diligent in all her studies with a determination to do as well as possible , while her powers of expression are adequate she has a fine sense of initiative and within her limitations can organise her materials persuasively . |
| 15 | ‘ When you had them fresh you had a concrete floor . |
| 16 | She glanced sharply at him , and although his expression remained inscrutable she had the fleeting impression that his reasons involved a woman . |
| 17 | Following this we have the long period of isostatic emergence , rapid weathering of the new mountains with the formation of molasse-type deposits , widespread red bed sedimentation and also perhaps a period of glaciation , before peneplanation , widespread marine transgressions and the recommencement of the cycle in new troughs . |
| 18 | He explained why he sent on Platt : ‘ In the first half we had a great deal of possession but we needed to move the Brazilians about , we needed to hurt them a bit more . |
| 19 | The Prison Service is in this business of when things go wrong we have a full enquiry to learn the lessons . |
| 20 | If it was stormy people were too busy looking after the farm and the animals to bother much , but when it was clear we had a nice meal . |
| 21 | So it is clear we have a long way to go before we can store up all the experiences of humankind . |
| 22 | In ex. 2 we have a simple pentatonic idea repeated chromatically , ascending and descending up the fretboard . |
| 23 | In Part 2 we have a special guest . |
| 24 | Despite this they had a wonderful tranquillity in such a foreign place , so far from home . |
| 25 | It was quite clear they had no real feeling for their mother , and were almost looking forward to her death . |
| 26 | But it 's clear they have a common bond . |
| 27 | They had been geared up to use so much physical energy that even when they were very old they had a dynamic force within their bodies for which they had no outlet . |
| 28 | Over this he had a black mackintosh ; there were five belts strapped around his waist and a sort of grey linen nappy attached to the back of his trousers . |
| 29 | Among East Anglian property pundits , alarm over what Mr Lamont might be planning for the region 's property market turned to relief as it became clear he had no major upsets in store . |
| 30 | Now it was clear he had no real need of her assistance despite his claim to the opposite . |