Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least I had a firmer grasp of the industrial development of West Ham and the distinct political culture it had witnessed , particularly during the 1890s . |
| 2 | The thinning out process has been a great shock to me , I had a higher opinion of working class thought — but it is that where the weakness lies , not in our efforts of propaganda . |
| 3 | I think if I had a bigger bust my guts would n't look so big . |
| 4 | I had a closer look at him . |
| 5 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 6 | Eventually I had a better bite and to my surprise I hauled in a roach of 11b 5oz . |
| 7 | He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did . |
| 8 | Then , when we went back to rotating mentally the computer simulation of the room and attempting to ‘ see ’ possible lines of sight , I had a further shock . |
| 9 | She had a better idea . |
| 10 | She had a better way of rupturing that patient impassivity , of making him look at her . |
| 11 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 12 | Good God , she was only fourteen she had a deeper voice than |
| 13 | ‘ She had a younger sister . |
| 14 | I think that she had a broader ranger of interest than Jane Austen . |
| 15 | She wished she had a stronger conviction that the Infant of Prague might be any earthly use in keeping her son safe on this terrible machine . |
| 16 | It 's Beethoven 's Ode to Joy , the the last movement of Beethoven 's ninth symphony , erm , you 'd know the tune , you 'd recognise it , particularly if you had a better singer than me on as a accompaniment . |
| 17 | Would your problems be solved if you had a smaller house ? |
| 18 | Would your problems be solved if you had a smaller house ? |
| 19 | My parents , like thousands of other black people , had scrimped and scraped and saved for years to ensure that we had a better life . |
| 20 | The next dawn we had a better look . |
| 21 | At the beginning of this season Wilko said we had a better side this year than when we won the championship . |
| 22 | Erm and when I looked at the figures , we had a greater percentage of institutions and pupils than the other sharer or partner in the process . |
| 23 | ‘ In Southampton we had a higher incidence of bad debts because of the size of our clients . |
| 24 | If we had a larger sample , it would be easier to venture a firm opinion . ’ |
| 25 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 26 | Well because they had a better goal average in all the other games . |
| 27 | And in this new structure , where the prime minister 's secretary popped out of holes and asked them what they thought , they had a better chance than any previous dean and chapter . |
| 28 | Before the Americans were irrevocably committed , however , and before the French positions on the Chinese frontier were overrun , they could conceivably have strengthened non-communist national forces in Vietnam to the point where they had a better chance of competing with the Vietminh or even , biting on the bullet , the French could have tried to negotiate a settlement , no matter what alarm that prospect might have caused their American allies . |
| 29 | They had a better line in diplomacy than old Chamberlain himself and certainly did more good in the world . |
| 30 | and erm and I asked Margaret , they had a better view where she was |