Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 2 | I seemed to have a separate brain for each limb , but they 'd all broken off diplomatic relations . |
| 3 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 4 | Because of the difficulty of leaving the children , my wife and I decided to have a short break away on our own this year . |
| 5 | Because of the difficulty of leaving the children , my wife and I decided to have a short break away on our own this year . |
| 6 | I decided to have a clear out and throw out the same number of old pairs . |
| 7 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 8 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |
| 9 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 10 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 11 | But he countered : ‘ The supporter was saying terrible things to me and I went back up the tunnel because I wanted to have a good look at the face of the person who was abusing me . |
| 12 | If radical politics have provided one consistent thread in his career , cricket has been another — going back to his early days in Derbyshire when he played for Littleover in the Notts & Derby Border League and was taught to bowl legcutters by twice-capped county coach Denis Smith : ‘ I suppose I ultimately failed him because in my rebelliousness I refused to have a decent short haircut , ’ he recalls . |
| 13 | Unless you 're like my Uncle Joe — a fox got his best foot , 'e 'ad to have a wooden leg , 'e was livid . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You got to have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs to go up there . |
| 15 | On yet another impulse , she stopped to have a quick look , because it just might have mentioned where Slane was , might n't it ? |
| 16 | She seemed to have a proper regard for the frivolous things in life . |
| 17 | She seemed to have a sensible head on her shoulders . |
| 18 | She seemed to have a natural gift of dignity . " |
| 19 | You needed to have a good , full , thick crop of hair to plait in order to achieve this effect , and I thought it nice . |
| 20 | And that I mean cos Mao said that how that you needed to have a moderate policy , that was the correct one |
| 21 | When Joanne worked on more open-ended work , she liked to have a whole class session to ensure that everyone had ‘ got the basic idea ’ . |
| 22 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 23 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 24 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 25 | They put me in touch with a few other people in nearby Sheffield and we arranged to have a tentative first meeting in someone 's flat . |
| 26 | ‘ Last night we managed to have a reasonable conversation . |
| 27 | We appeared to have a decent squad then . |
| 28 | You think about it , it 's never , I mean we had to have a special fire door put on cos our we go through to our garage . |
| 29 | We knew we had to have a women-only group . |
| 30 | ‘ I first saw his pictures during the punk period and they seemed to have a similar punch , a thriller realism . ’ |