Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] had [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw that I had new books by my bedside . |
| 2 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 3 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 4 | ‘ That I had many acquaintances named Svend and that none of them would run off with a teenager . ’ |
| 5 | Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
| 8 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 9 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 10 | I feel that , apart from this , you showed an interest in me and my development which enabled me to grow both in the exercise of my talents and in the confidence that I had such talents . |
| 11 | It seemed all wrong that I had horizontal loops across the face of the work . |
| 12 | Mum had a habit , whenever she sent me any distance on an errand , of insisting that I had clean bloomers on , ‘ in case yer get knocked down by a 'orse ’ , which was why I was scared of them . |
| 13 | And then I bought another one and then I bought a third one so that I had three combines but there were no other combines on Orkney at all . |
| 14 | The only snag was that I had bad after-effects from the anaesthetic . |
| 15 | Oh I did n't feel that I had any gripes from our point of view . |
| 16 | ‘ Not that I had any doubts on the score , ’ Penry assured her as they set off towards Haverfordwest . |
| 17 | Another dream that I had several times was that I would sacrifice my life to save others . |
| 18 | Sally found that she had good abilities in this area . |
| 19 | Rosie said , ‘ Er — um — ’ and Shelley guessed that she had other plans for Saturday . |
| 20 | How dared he think it , let alone say it , that she had other men to settle her bills ? |
| 21 | Prince Charles , a man who by his own admission fell in love easily , pressed his suit even though his advisers told him that she had other boyfriends . |
| 22 | She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom , which had been constructed from a third bedroom . |
| 23 | Not that she had many choices . |
| 24 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 25 | Jo loathed her blobby nose , her receding chin , her long body , her short legs , her droopy ass , her fat thighs , her white skin that absolutely refused to tan and her brown hair which frizzed and which her mother would n't even let her frost ; she accepted that she would never look like Faye Dunaway , never be a Prom Queen and that most of her body was a total disaster area , but she knew with absolute certainty that she had great tits . |
| 26 | Once or twice people put their heads round the door and asked her if the Meditation proof was up yet , or whether she knew ‘ that she had four inches less than usual on page twelve . |
| 27 | She took out her wallet and found that she had six pounds and ten shillings which she placed on the chair by his bed ; ‘ Will that be enough to be going on with ? ’ she asked . |
| 28 | After the Act she might have believed that she had reasonable grounds for making her demand and that her threat was a proper means of reinforcing the demand . |
| 29 | She had not troubled to dress , despite , or perhaps because of , the fact that she had male visitors . |
| 30 | And erm , it s it seems to be an entirely er rational position for any public politician , for instance , Mrs Thatcher before the seventy-nine election , denying that she had any plans to double V A T , or Mr Major denying some of the plans for raising taxes that we 've come up with , or indeed denying plans to privatise the forestry commission . |