Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] have some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
4 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
5 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
6 | She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said . |
7 | ‘ I saw you had some books on birds . ’ |
8 | Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me . |
9 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
10 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
11 | You remember you always thought he had some secret . ’ |
12 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
13 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
14 | I mixed I had some Malibu . |
15 | Were they completely off the cuff or did you have some idea of what you were going to do ? |
16 | Did you have some stories with this teddy ? |
17 | Did you have some master plan or did you just plan it bit by bit ? ’ |
18 | beans and sausage , did you have some toast with it ? |
19 | Did you have some sort of treatment at home ? |
20 | Did you have some sort of recipes ? |
21 | Did he have some objection to such bantering ? |
22 | aye , she said she had some chicken |
23 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean said she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
24 | And when Mrs Knight said she had some costume jewellery in the house he followed her straight into her bedroom where he started going through her drawers . |
25 | Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , said he had some sympathy for Dr Richard Colman . |
26 | Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , said he had some sympathy for Dr Richard Colman and there was no suggestion that he was a ‘ quack ’ . |
27 | Lord Milligan said he had some sympathy with Sim 's predicament but he had chosen to defy the law rather than the people who were threatening him . |
28 | We reached his office where he said he had some paperwork to complete before we stopped fairly soon for ten minutes at Kenora . |
29 | He said he had some news , but it was only for my ears and I must keep it confidential . |
30 | I think you wanted them to have some time together but … but perhaps not most of the night , ’ she finished on a whisper . |