Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] have a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And of course we 've got this I have a little dog and she loves to roll in this . |
| 6 | I 'd a proper I had a proper drill , oh you 're talking about the new ones ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For this you have a young girl covered in old newspapers held on with scotch tape or cotton . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ When you had them fresh you had a concrete floor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Prison Service is in this business of when things go wrong we have a full enquiry to learn the lessons . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So it is clear we have a long way to go before we can store up all the experiences of humankind . |
| 15 | In ex. 2 we have a simple pentatonic idea repeated chromatically , ascending and descending up the fretboard . |
| 16 | In Part 2 we have a special guest . |
| 17 | Despite this they had a wonderful tranquillity in such a foreign place , so far from home . |
| 18 | But it 's clear they have a common bond . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people . |
| 22 | When I found some it had a strange smell — of sweet and sour sauce — and it seemed to be very moist . |
| 23 | . Lot forty six Trade-Mark gramophone , there it is on the screen now , Lot forty six I 've a thousand pounds offered for this , one thousand pounds , any advance on a thousand ? |
| 24 | Howev it 's all too convenient and it 's all too easy we have a perfect example of of of bureaucratic shuffling . |
| 25 | Congress has always been better staffed than its counterparts elsewhere in the world and by 1979 it had a total staff of 23,056 . |
| 26 | I personally think the gallery 's grossly under used you have a large number of exhibitions that seem to extend over six to eight weeks . |
| 27 | Mm apart from that you had a great time |
| 28 | It seems to me that given that you have a southern bypass , there could be an argument for saying , if we had a northern inner relief road , that northern inner relief road together with a southern bypass , could perform some of the functions of the western relief road . |
| 29 | On the twenty eight of September nineteen eighty eight she had a major operation on her left wrist . |
| 30 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |