Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 2 | I should add that I had some entertainment on learning that not so long ago the local minister had run off with a young man . |
| 3 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand if I say that I had some difficulty in persuading everybody to come round a table when I was talking only to the parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 5 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 6 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 7 | To the late Dr Melville Clark , the Reader in Rhetoric , I owe the discovery that I had some talent for editing text . |
| 8 | She 'd go shopping , now that she had some money , or go to see places that she 'd heard of . |
| 9 | She dared fantasise , for just a moment , that she had some kind of family again , perhaps with Leila as a surrogate mother , the three of them heading for the stars . |
| 10 | Would it now get about that Mrs Markham was a little peculiar or , worse still , that she had some assignation ? |
| 11 | ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with Gertrude Lawrence ( the American actress ) , that she was passionately in love with the wife of her American publisher but that it was n't consummated , and that she had some sort of an affair with her French teacher when young . ’ |
| 12 | She realized that she had some confusions of her own that needed sorting out . |
| 13 | But you said , a moment ago that you had some evidence on this . |
| 14 | That you had some reason to distrust him ? ’ |
| 15 | To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’ |
| 16 | She would have liked to sit down and enjoy it , or at least take the child early so she had some evening left when they got back . |
| 17 | ‘ We came somewhat late to Aberdeen , ’ wrote Johnson , ‘ and found the inn so full , that we had some difficulty in obtaining admission , till Mr Boswell made himself known . |
| 18 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 19 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 20 | Is that the one that they had some problems with the er rugby club ? |
| 21 | Her face was blank , and Meryl found herself wondering how she could ever have imagined that they had some kind of common bond , women in medicine , friendship . |
| 22 | The petitions on their own may be unreliable , but the response of the Crown to them must surely be an indication that they had some substance : a government which was regularly short of funds would be unlikely to grant remissions , and the fact that different towns were allowed varying amounts of tax allowance suggests that some attempt was made to calculate the resources available . |
| 23 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 24 | Wires announcing that he had some leave would be sent to the delightful telegraphic address of B.P. which was ‘ Bonzo ’ . |
| 25 | said at a press conference in May that he had some misgivings about a formal sentence bargain , but thought it would be possible to devise a procedure which would be acceptable . |
| 26 | Dana did not ask to see my own poems , which at once made me suspect that he had some knowledge of them already . |
| 27 | Further research may demonstrate that he had some knowledge of science and of medicine . |
| 28 | Sandison suspected that he had some kind of private income but , judging by the state of his clothes , his means , from whatever source , were limited . |
| 29 | Peter wished that he had some kind of weapon . |
| 30 | Richard patted himself to see that he had some matches on him , a gesture which appealed to Nenna , and walked off up the Embankment to call a taxi . |