Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 2 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 3 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 4 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 5 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 6 | If she mentioned his name in any circle , however jaded it was by gossip , there was always somebody who had some titbit about him . |
| 7 | Hayling in turn was delighted to meet a man whose friends described him as a ‘ non-conformist ’ compared with most City types , and one who had strong views about the way City investment was dominated by political advantage . |
| 8 | ‘ That woman … the one who had twelve children . ’ |
| 9 | The following extract from the Preface of the Catalogus appears to have been written by one who had sound knowledge of the Chelsea Garden — almost certainly Philip Miller . |
| 10 | She had never met anyone who had such ability to make anger surge and fire within . |
| 11 | ‘ Virtually anyone who had some flannels was in contention for a first-team place as Eric Hollies , Tom Dollery , Ken Taylor , Bill Fantham and myself were the only prewar survivors . |
| 12 | Indeed , anyone who had any business with the law in London knew Fitzosbert 's fearsome reputation . |
| 13 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |