Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't summon up a double bass in the short time that I had this rig , which was a shame since , like Hughes & Kettner 's BassBase , the unit is flexible enough to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the instrument , the primary reason for the onboard notch filter . |
| 2 | I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on . |
| 3 | I have n't taken into account the suggestion forms that I had this morning and some quiffs that I have n't had . |
| 4 | Now that I had this label — ‘ partially sighted ’ — and it was clear that my disability would become more acute , the teachers and girls at school found some semblance of the tolerance and understanding that they had previously lacked , and I slowly began to edge my way up the academic ladder . |
| 5 | ‘ When I got to my door I found that I had this cement cock in my pocket . |
| 6 | But perhaps it was just as well that she had this shock , for in her relief at finding the injury comparatively slight , she forbore to say very much about the unexpected guest . |
| 7 | Of course Tracey why she 's upset is because she said that she had this examiner |
| 8 | ‘ Tests showed that she had this condition , and it has deteriorated over the years . |
| 9 | It was at the very next stage was n't it that you had this switch from a boundary which we could accept to one which we profoundly could not accept ? |
| 10 | Yes , he gave us five targets to achieve by the one that we had this year . |
| 11 | Right , it 's just that we had this issue in support of other research a questionnaire and in support key divisions , sorry , key departments have lists of named individuals who can authorise questionnaires . |
| 12 | We acted as if we owned RCA , that we were RCA , that we had this corporation . |
| 13 | ‘ David did very , very well to get through the Turkey game the way he did and if you were not aware that he had this problem with his knee , you would n't have known it was there . |
| 14 | I told my husband that he had this problem . |
| 15 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 16 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |