Example sentences of "i had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having interviewed my fair share of criminals and oddballs , ranging from murderers to men with silver foil round their heads claiming protection from the moon 's beams , I thought I had a well-developed instinct for sensing a nutter when I met one . |
| 2 | Hence I had a working knowledge of the language and sometimes , at table , could follow the conversation , though when the Ralembergs lapsed into patois this became impossible . |
| 3 | I wish I had a working wishing well . |
| 4 | I saved up these back pages until I had a complete set and my mother sewed them together on her treadle -operated Singer machine . |
| 5 | The next I heard was when I had a complete breakdown of Robert and Janet 's income erm with the breakdown of how a new settlement was was brought about . |
| 6 | Within a week I had a complete record of this remote site , it is amazing how much remains — an undercarriage with its wheel and tyre in place . |
| 7 | Then I had a blooming fall . |
| 8 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 9 | I can make leads , I mean , if you have to do it , if I had a spare moment |
| 10 | I had a spare bedroom and eventually , we agreed that he would come and live in my flat as a lodger — which is what happened . |
| 11 | I wish I had a spare lifetime to spend in trying to paint it . ’ |
| 12 | I had a mobile phone but I could n't get any international calls . ’ |
| 13 | For a while I was scared that I was pregnant ; I had a disgusting sense of something alien inside me , like maggots or a cancer . |
| 14 | I had a rough idea in my mind , before going to Portugal , of the approximate shape and design of the picture I wanted to create . |
| 15 | I had a rough idea from the photograph where the site was , but on the ground everything looked different . |
| 16 | I 've got , I , I had a rough idea of what he 'd got and what he had n't now . |
| 17 | Two years ago , for example , I had a rough time . |
| 18 | ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel . |
| 19 | ‘ I had a slight accident a few months ago , wrote off my car and almost myself . ’ |
| 20 | And I had a slight mishap , the simplest thing in the world , really , when I was using a shovel in the calf house . |
| 21 | I had a wee office but it was kind |
| 22 | so he 's going to do that , so I said well look , do you mind if I had a wee sort of prelim talk with him |
| 23 | So my w Jessie and I had a wee break . |
| 24 | I had a wee try-on , |
| 25 | If there are more than four I go to the cupboard and nip cognacs till it 's all over for me , my dear ’ , or ‘ Last Sunday I had a fearful crise . |
| 26 | I had a distinct impression that many of the organisers had had professional theatre experience and that , naturally , their point of view was coloured by this , while the teachers had arrived at the point of realising the potential of drama as a tool of education . |
| 27 | I had a tremendous struggle to keep my medication the whole time I was in Holloway , and it started again when I went to Styal . |
| 28 | I had a very very hard time just to look after my ill daughter , and I was trying to get help from everybody , but er I had a tremendous help er the neighbours were very good with me , the relations , my husband 's friends at work , er and er my own sisters and my brothers and their wives and my , my mum and dad , so I had a lot of support from everybody . |
| 29 | Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well |
| 30 | I had a tremendous sense of bereavement — it hurt inside — I had no idea it would be like that . ’ |