Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence . |
| 2 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 3 | Although I was hungry , I had great difficulty in digesting and so my nights were bad . |
| 4 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
| 5 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
| 6 | She now speaks of those hours of heady emotion in a voice of wry amusement : ‘ I had tremendous hopes in my heart . ’ |
| 7 | And I had total confidence in Robin as , very touchingly , he had in me when we climbed on the mountain . |
| 8 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 9 | The camera hones in on a platinum blonde Madonna , poured into a slinky , strapless white dress that she swears ‘ took more fittings than I had shooting days in the movie ’ . |
| 10 | Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division . |
| 11 | my Lord all that follows now is that question costs in this my Lord there is no doubt that er this is the painful experience for both the plaintiffs and of course for doctor who is unrepresented and therefore must inevitably feel rather isolated in this matter erm , however in my there is no reason to er depart from the usual principal of the costs which should follow the event and of course we know as it the loss on the subsidiary appeal and so I do n't press the point on that cos the reality as you 've already probably anticipated is all the work has been done erm on this appeal the subsidiary appeal I ask , I do n't ask for costs on that , in my submission it should be both sides bear their own costs on that , the reason I say that is that there was no , there was no cross appearing in respect on it in effect , cos after all , all you were doing was er trying to get the same as the other side if we lost , so no worm of can of beans can be done by doctor I had one parallel in my whole skeleton on that , er , but we have substantially succeeded on the main issue and so I , I would ask that costs in favour of the plaintiffs on , on that and here and indeed below . |
| 12 | When I tried this sort of stuff before , I had one flight in a sort of plywood packing-case painted the colour of the blue stuff they used to paint on your balls when you got crabs and spent the rest of the day hanging around with a pack of strangle-voiced bores in bobble hats . |
| 13 | If I had one wish in the world it would be to stop all this hurt and pain I 'm causing . |
| 14 | ‘ I had one season in the old First Division with Portsmouth and it 's great to get another opportunity to show what I can do against the best in the country . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 16 | I had other people in mind as well actually . |
| 17 | ‘ I had two horses in the wagon that day : I had two that day . |
| 18 | I had two horses in work during November and December . |
| 19 | For the last couple of weeks , I had two posters in my windows , facing on to a fairly busy street . |
| 20 | I had two rounds in the morning and a round in the evening . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've still got a steel plate and screws in my leg after breaking both ankles last year and I had two falls in four days in July . |
| 22 | Er I think I had two years in the Home Guard . |
| 23 | For the moment I had two vehicles in PKB 's underground car park , Armstrong and Tel 's BMW . |
| 24 | A year ago I had six boys in my school , now there are none , they get to 11 and think it 's cissy . ’ |
| 25 | As I was reviewing the material to be used here I had certain issues in my mind which concern the structure and meaning of the support given , based upon the ideas developed by anthropologists and sociologists who have studied kinship in Britain and elsewhere . |
| 26 | Customs officer Steve , 27 , of Corringham , Essex , said : ‘ I had little choice in the matter . ’ |
| 27 | But little of the necessary reading for " Schools " interested me : I had little interest in constitutional development , political theory or economic growth , none at all in the Industrial Revolution and the technical and scientific achievements that ushered in the modern age . |
| 28 | I did well , I had hundred pound in me purse last night till Steve says can I have me pocket money and can I have me petrol and can I have this and I paid for coal and I 've got forty . |
| 29 | Oops , in my last mail I had 12 players in the lineup . |
| 30 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |