Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [noun] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asprey have said that they view the purchase as an investment ; in the short term their purchase had a beneficial effect on Mallett 's shares which leaped from 45p to 74p on 21–22 December . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was a boy my parents had a bookshop like this in Plymouth . |
| 3 | When he was fetched from the Common Room his walk had a touch of spring , and he came into Pumfrey 's presence a shade more jauntily than would have been the case if he had been interviewed earlier . |
| 4 | Several horses are said to have been buried there , standing up , at the request of the eccentric vicar whose family had the house built in School Lane in Edwardian times . |
| 5 | The worst one I remember was a woman whose company had a small place in the rag trade ghetto round the back of Oxford Circus . |
| 6 | While a woman whose husband had an affair said : |
| 7 | Oliver took pity , offered a glass which Denis had no problem accepting . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh thought that however ferocious he might appear to the outside world his children had no fear of him . |
| 9 | But this , of course , was a promise which Louis had no means of enforcing . |
| 10 | Martha saved herself from relegation to a junior class by reciting the whole of Psalm 103 , one of Nana 's favourites , in morning assembly ; after this feat her teacher had a long conversation above her head with her mother , and began to come to their house on Saturdays to give her extra lessons . |
| 11 | I did phone one company whose machine had a good write-up but the purchase price had increased by £50 and there was a five week delay . |
| 12 | And to make matters worse , it was a white guy my mum had an affair with . |
| 13 | But despite his disability his eyes had a twinkle and Wycliffe felt that he was in the presence of a truly contented man . |