Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork . |
| 2 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 3 | Apparently the cleaner overheard them having a tremendous row . |
| 4 | ‘ There was really no need — I realised I had a sweet and cheeses , you must have been starving . ’ |
| 5 | However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards . |
| 6 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 7 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 8 | Because she had no man , Clare also suddenly found she had no public identity and was not likely to get asked to dinner parties , for society seemed to move only in couples . |
| 9 | Never having been aboard a ship before , she found she had a natural liking for the sea life : she suffered no seasickness at all , and as João had sent an excellent chef to cook her meals , she dined well and developed a taste for the green wine of Portugal . |
| 10 | Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent . |
| 11 | Says Payne : ‘ We found we had a tremendous amount in common , a real northern European outlook with people from the Pacific rim , Siberia or the Russian heartlands . |
| 12 | ‘ Allowing for the generation gap , we found we had a surprising amount in common . |
| 13 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 14 | However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges . |
| 15 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 16 | they mentioned he had an excellent game — and from the goals showed the scot goalkeeper could have done much better on two of the italian goals … specially the first one — a flat shot from far out and at an angle too . |
| 17 | We found he had a whole store of out of door knowledge which he was quite ready to impart . |
| 18 | Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics |
| 19 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 20 | Patrick then found he had no French money . |
| 21 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 22 | He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park . |
| 23 | Yet recognition of the difficulties in which the two papers found themselves had the apparent effect of making the Government and the party think more clearly about mass communications . |
| 24 | Half way round the first lap a short sharp guest of wind took them by surprise and they found themselves having an early bath . |
| 25 | The statements made which have no legal effect are often described as being mere " puffs " ( Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball [ 1893 ] 1 QB 256 ) . |
| 26 | I was so close to these birds , they were like friends , and it seemed I had a personal responsibility towards them . |
| 27 | If the yeast foods caused you to have an abdominal reaction , then you may find the weight loss came to a standstill this week . |
| 28 | A medical report estimated she had a mental age of seven years and nine months . |
| 29 | Provided that people in this country believed they had an honest system of government which dispensed even-handed justice , then there was no need to tamper with the law unless public order was threatened . |
| 30 | It seemed they had a mutual acquaintance in ‘ freelance , W. Dennis Suit , president of Overseas Press Services , whom Coleman had met as a ‘ consultant ’ to Pat Robertson 's Christian Broadcasting Network and with whom he had kept in touch , on DIA instructions , because of Suit 's involvement with Oliver North 's ragtag army of conmen , yahoos and armchair mercenaries from |