Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story .
2 When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’
3 morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece .
4 But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself .
5 When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine .
6 Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing .
7 As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take .
8 When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died .
9 And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling .
10 Really I suppose much the same way as those parents whom we interviewed who had some sort of educational knowledge or understanding of their own , since we 're both involved in education .
11 Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her .
12 He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend .
13 THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success .
14 The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites .
15 But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’
16 Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas .
17 But when the prince reminded her — oh , so gently — of the deception practised upon his royal parents on Twelfth Night , Anne realized she had little choice .
18 He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg .
19 When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist .
20 This showed it to have formal negotiating agreements at ten of the principal ports of England , Scotland and Wales and at three in Ireland , and to have ad hoc local wage agreements at substantially all the rest .
21 The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ .
22 Mr Lee claimed he had personal knowledge of a case in which a person had bought and sold council houses on four occasions .
23 Quelch claimed he had verbal consent from the NRA .
24 He reckoned he had enough time to see Maidstone , then get down to the pensione and change before making his way back up to the Vomero again .
25 David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep .
26 When he was shadow Secretary of State and I challenged him to have this debate in the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs , he said , " We soon will . "
27 Founded in 1937 by Erica Fiah , African trader and leader of the African Welfare and Commercial Association , the paper was initially a platform for that Association , and Fiah told his readers that effective improvement for Africans required them to have political power as well as economic and educational advancement .
28 As the denomination most solidly based in the countryside , they also realized they had little choice in the thousands of new streets with their red and yellow brick terraces that were covering England 's acres .
29 Many students realised they had little hope of going abroad and sought instead other escape routes from their situation .
30 But , she said I 'm pleased with him so far , but we still got to be careful that 's why she made him have this collar .
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