Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This meant that I had a variety of other ‘ close ones ’ to look after me , and a rota was instituted . |
2 | Even the awareness that I had a choice was of course a product of the way that I was brought up . |
3 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
4 | The awful thing is that I had a chance to meet him . |
5 | But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery . |
6 | Being a fair-minded person and still hoping that I had a chance to get a cultural stew going , I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) , but he did not give me a chance either . |
7 | I was very green and , to be honest , when Ricky McFarlane quit St Mirren it never occurred to me that I had a chance of getting the job . |
8 | For you must know that I had a twin brother , as beautiful as the day , and gentle as a fawn , and wholesome as new bread and butter , whose company pleased me so much , as mine also pleased him , that we swore an oath never to marry but to live forever peacefully in the castle , and hunt and play together the livelong day . |
9 | As in fact I had a go at that I had a go at I had a go at them about another prod er another photograph . |
10 | A doctor with a soothing voice and an old-fashioned black bag pronounced , absurdly , that I had a cold . |
11 | I was always running up against her and being told that I had a shoelace undone , or my buttons needed polishing , or my hair was touching my collar , Airwoman ! |
12 | I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help . |
13 | We were summoned to Buckingham Palace to discuss this , and as we approached the gates in my car , I remembered that I had a case of 250 cartridges in the boot . |
14 | When I reminded him that I had given expert advice and spent time and petrol on his call , he agreed reluctantly that I had a case . |
15 | ‘ To be honest it 's about time that I had a bit of luck . |
16 | Well just say and just say that I had a bit of a ba an and I 'd like a check over that 's all just say that to them if you want alright ? |
17 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
18 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
19 | The light was so confusing , the monster 's movements so fast , that I had a memory only of an abstraction of sculptured bone . |
20 | ‘ The reason I rang last night is that I had a message from your publishers , ’ he went on . |
21 | As time went on and I knew that I had a fight on my hands , healing became as important to me as my new diet or the other new therapies . |
22 | The nicest thing was when they printed that I had a tattoo of Reg Varney on my chest . |
23 | If I use the expression ‘ I have toothache ’ I may think of it as ‘ being used naturally ’ or otherwise , but it would be wrong to say that I had a reason for thinking either . |
24 | If proof were ever needed that I had a gift for spotting talent then my signing of Royston Marley was it . |
25 | I had told him that I had a brother and sister and that my mother was a widow . |
26 | Full of good intentions I declared quite sincerely that I had a dog in my rucksack . |
27 | Yeah if I knew some facts that I had a job to go to , I 'd pay for it myself |
28 | On hearing that I had a place among successful candidates I was excited with pleasure . |
29 | this is rather what what it , makes it difficult is that I had a copy as well farce right , but do n't say farcical . |
30 | I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment … |