Example sentences of "[pers pn] have an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an extra incentive to put money on the gas giants as havens of life we can note that each of them has an atmospheric layer where there is plenty of warm but polluted water . |
| 2 | Do I have an early memory of misunderstanding , when something I said was misunderstood , perhaps with painful or embarrassing consequences , by a friend , a member of my family or a teacher ? |
| 3 | Can I have an extra bonus point ? |
| 4 | ‘ I had an odd experience in hospital , ’ Patrick began . |
| 5 | I had an odd dream last night actually |
| 6 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 7 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 8 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
| 9 | I had an acute sense of the absence of Alison , of the probably permanent loss of her ; I could imagine her beside me , her hand in mine ; and she was human warmth , normality , standard to go by . |
| 10 | After my waters broke I had an uncontrollable urge to push but the midwife told me not to . |
| 11 | To finish I had an amazing acacia honey cheesecake with caramelized satsumas and my gluttonous partner went for chef Vickery 's selection which featured tasty samples of many delicious desserts . |
| 12 | But he was a big man and for some reason I had an unhealthy picture of him being more than able to do something unspeakable to Tonka toys . |
| 13 | I shivered as if I had an actual fever , smoked a dozen cigarettes and drank half a bottle of Cyprus sherry . |
| 14 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 15 | ‘ And when I 'd parked the car I had an overwhelming urge to kiss you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The midwife disappeared and I had an overwhelming desire to push , which I tried to fight . |
| 17 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 18 | ‘ I had an awful dream about that galley of ours . |
| 19 | I had an awful dream today , I dreamt my nan , and I woke up and I 'm crying . |
| 20 | Cos I had an awful experience about ooh , four years ago , I had this old Moggy Morris Minor coming along very slowly north of Hull it was and this chap and his about finished work you know , so I going past this cri , there 's a cricket match going on and he was looking like , I could see and his girlfriend ! |
| 21 | go where ? , huh I , I had an awful night again , I did n't get to sleep till about one or two , I 'm not going to go to bed early again |
| 22 | ‘ I had an awful childhood , ’ she wrote later , probably because she ‘ hated ’ her strict , fussy mother , a former governess . |
| 23 | I said I did I said and I had an awful job to get it out again . |
| 24 | ‘ You must go , ’ she said , ‘ I had an awful time persuading him to see you . |
| 25 | I had an awful pain in my chest and did not know whether it was a coronary or indigestion . |
| 26 | I had an unsettling experience on Thursday . |
| 27 | I had an instant bond with Marie — I thought she was beautiful the moment she was born — I can really say that . |
| 28 | I had an instant picture of this docile boat now chugging at nine knots with a following wind on a choppy but inland loch , far out in the North Sea bucking and corkscrewing , the bow sickeningly below the waves as often as not . |
| 29 | I had an uneasy feeling that Sir Robert Armstrong had other reasons for wanting the programme postponed , but would not say what they were . |
| 30 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |