Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a certain [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a certain nostalgic respect for that kind of 1970s ' ultra-Leftist-womanist impossibilism , but for me it has two major problems . |
| 2 | Now that is a word you seldom come across in England , but away up in the Highlands and Islands being " fey " means that you have a certain sixth sense — you are the seventh son of a seventh son , or whatever the drama is on that score . |
| 3 | Fourthly , they have a certain decorative value . |
| 4 | declared for people who are buying houses and etcetera and it has a certain statutory status but it but it can be looked at again clearly . |
| 5 | This makes no biological sense , of course , but it has a certain psychological validity , in that the significance to most members of our society of the difference between , say , a thrush and a blackbird is roughly comparable to that between a collie and a spaniel . |
| 6 | It had a certain peaty resonance . |
| 7 | It did n't compare to his effort , but it had a certain naïve charm . |
| 8 | But Pavel was level-headed , and he knew that he had a certain inner strength ; nobody could have kept her and cared for her in secret and for so long without it . |