Example sentences of "[pers pn] have had a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the Queen thinks she has had a bad year , look at me — my whole life has been pretty horribilis , ’ said Olive , from Birmingham . |
| 2 | " After all , Clara , you 've had a hard year . |
| 3 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 4 | If your particular interest in the aquatics hobby is catfish then you have had a bumper year , for over the last twelve months various different catfish especially Corydoras and Plecs have been appearing , that are both new to the hobby and beautiful . |
| 5 | We 've had a marvellous year . |
| 6 | Or , as Roberts cheerfully confesses : ‘ We have had a good year . |
| 7 | We have had a good year with minor upsets , such as a cataract operation for me which was no trouble at all , and has resulted in a dramatic improvement in my eyesight . |
| 8 | We have had a good year , barring accidents , and although the summer weather was disastrous we have been more than compensated by the most beautiful Autumn ever . |
| 9 | ‘ The sale is not any reflection on the business — in fact we have had a brilliant year , ’ Lady Tryon tells me . |
| 10 | We have had a wonderful year . |
| 11 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
| 12 | You could get the odds because he 'd had a poor year until then by his standards . |