Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course I had a mother . |
| 2 | done a financial and er my er , this afternoon I had a guy come in with a Capri , bloody welding that thing needs doing , I do n't think he 'll get it done , so I was , I was |
| 3 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 4 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ In the high flourishing finance days of MainMan I had a secretary , a wonderful car , limousines everywhere , and bills paid for everything at places like Bloomingdales . |
| 5 | And so I when I got back from the talk I had a look and sure enough there are , throughout the British Isles there are five New Brightons . |
| 6 | My Lords , i in effect I had a Power of Appointment and in effect it was very badly needed . |
| 7 | Hell , it was n't her fault she had a scoundrel for a grandson . |
| 8 | Er what is anything is being done about supplying er inclement weather conditions such as the snow we had a couple of years ago . |
| 9 | So just just small movements of the feet I 'm not talking well there 's a classic one I had when I was at college we had a lecturer imagine a big lecture theatre you know two hundred people and there was there was a board and he presented his lecture like this , plenty of foot movement but he presented his lecture like and he just walked up and down . |
| 10 | He indicated to the 38-year-old cashier he had a gun , but no weapon was seen during the incident . |
| 11 | Ma Smith took in gentlemen paying guests and for his outlay he had a bedroom , a personal sitting room and the dedicated service of the widowed Mrs Smith and her daughters . |
| 12 | In his heyday he had a memory like a clamp . |
| 13 | When he came out into the bright white daylight he had a shock . |
| 14 | Today for lunch I had a club sandwich and apple pie with ice-cream . |
| 15 | On our way to the oasis of Bahriyah in the western desert I had a misadventure with my hat . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was a little girl I had a rag doll … the only doll I ever owned . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When I was a little girl I had a rag doll … the only doll I ever owned . ’ |
| 18 | In exchange I had a view over the wide , flat-bottomed valley , a view that dissolved into the fish-fin ridge on the far side . |
| 19 | On a particularly difficult issue she had a habit of canvassing everyone privately , except the person directly involved , so that when the matter was finally aired she would already be in command of all views . |
| 20 | Within weeks of forming the campaign we had a chance to advertise on a television show with a huge audience ; Mandy even got Wogan to agree to display the campaign 's recently acquired address and telephone number . |
| 21 | In 1728 he married Susan ( died 1743 ) , the daughter of Stephen Colt , and from this marriage he had a son ( died 1752 ) and two daughters . |
| 22 | On his desk he had a box full of eyes . |
| 23 | At work he had a job title , and his own parking space . |
| 24 | From where he was sitting by the narrow little window he had a view of the meagre garden and beyond it , in the distance , a huge white bull in a field of white heifers . |
| 25 | By his second he had a son who died in infancy , and a daughter born 1641 . |
| 26 | Neil poor boy he had a driving lesson yesterday came home and said I do n't want to do any more ! |
| 27 | I mentioned earlier that just when you thought that the moment had arrived for Mike McFarlane to make a breakthrough he had a setback , and in 1981 this applied also to me . |
| 28 | As a yachtsman he had a touch of genius . |
| 29 | He told the terrified girl he had a knife , then made her walk down a river footpath , across a bridge and into an alley . |
| 30 | Asked why the interest in Elvis , Walken said that a girl he had a crush on in school used to carry round a picture of her boyfriend , and this was used as an excuse for why Walken could n't take her to his high school prom . |