Example sentences of "my [noun sg] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked . |
| 2 | Just the way I knew my mum had bad news when she came in on me in dad 's study all those weeks ago . |
| 3 | My interest in sport helped and apart from three days jankers ( for being late back from weekend pass — could not afford a taxi from Wendover station ) , this vexed me as many of my Entry had zero days but many , like my dear friend the late Roddy Morgan , did more than 300 days . |
| 4 | They wrote one another at first but then my ex-wife had another child , you know how it is … |
| 5 | She had been a teacher , and made sure the girl went to a good school : ‘ my granny had more influence on me education-wise . |
| 6 | My husband had many friends there and they sometimes called on him for his help and advice . |
| 7 | I thought it was going to be a holiday home , but my husband had different ideas . ’ |
| 8 | He had whilst I was lying intoxicated on my bed in my quarter had oral sex , had masturbated over my body and had entered my vagina for about 10 seconds . |
| 9 | I can only suppose that my name had respectable associations , and he thought it might allay criticism in what might be called Athenaeum circles . |
| 10 | My wife had individual counselling and that was tremendously helpful . ’ |
| 11 | The king my father had complete confidence in your judgement and loyalty , I know . |
| 12 | My father had two horses . ’ |
| 13 | At the end of year nine it was make my mind up time on my GCSE options , there was no doubt which I wanted to take , drama , but my father had other ideas he thought a second language would be far more constructive . |
| 14 | My abaya had more gold then than now . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Stanforth , ’ she said now , ‘ I 've never once in my life had any communication from my Great-Uncle Alan . |
| 16 | I always made sure my daughter had new clothes to go to school with like you know . |
| 17 | Happily , my AOC had other ideas . |
| 18 | Also , my costume had discreet padding and my boots had lifts to change my apparent height and size . |
| 19 | In fact none of the books in my list had any markings to suggest that they were duplicates ; quite the reverse . |
| 20 | She had had eight children , only four of whom survived , and had done hard physical work all her life because my grandfather had poor health . |
| 21 | My youth had little gaiety in it . |
| 22 | I went to bed very depressed , but it seemed my subconscious had other ideas , because I woke with the remembrance of the Humanists . |
| 23 | I was miserable with cold , but although I was prepared to admit that I was miserable , I was n't prepared to admit that my misery had any connection with cold . |
| 24 | In their language there is no word which means telling lies , and my master had great difficulty in understanding me . |
| 25 | My uniform had multiple advantages . |
| 26 | We produced there only fancy leathers However , two years ago , we decided to close this plant in mainly because I 'm getting fairly old nowadays and my son had many activities to take charge of . |
| 27 | In planning details , I was fortunate that my family had certain items of grandfather 's equipment ; a bush hat and a bush knife known as kukri . |
| 28 | My family had three houses in the village . |
| 29 | Well my my mother had five children with her previous husband and my father met my mother while this fella was ill and he eventually died with T B and my father married my mother and took on these five children i in , in South Wales . |
| 30 | My mother had four children in six years , and we were a very close-knit family . ’ |