Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should add that I had some entertainment on learning that not so long ago the local minister had run off with a young man . |
| 2 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand if I say that I had some difficulty in persuading everybody to come round a table when I was talking only to the parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 4 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 5 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 6 | To the late Dr Melville Clark , the Reader in Rhetoric , I owe the discovery that I had some talent for editing text . |
| 7 | She 'd go shopping , now that she had some money , or go to see places that she 'd heard of . |
| 8 | She dared fantasise , for just a moment , that she had some kind of family again , perhaps with Leila as a surrogate mother , the three of them heading for the stars . |
| 9 | Would it now get about that Mrs Markham was a little peculiar or , worse still , that she had some assignation ? |
| 10 | ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with Gertrude Lawrence ( the American actress ) , that she was passionately in love with the wife of her American publisher but that it was n't consummated , and that she had some sort of an affair with her French teacher when young . ’ |
| 11 | She realized that she had some confusions of her own that needed sorting out . |
| 12 | But you said , a moment ago that you had some evidence on this . |
| 13 | That you had some reason to distrust him ? ’ |
| 14 | To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We came somewhat late to Aberdeen , ’ wrote Johnson , ‘ and found the inn so full , that we had some difficulty in obtaining admission , till Mr Boswell made himself known . |
| 16 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 17 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 18 | Is that the one that they had some problems with the er rugby club ? |
| 19 | Her face was blank , and Meryl found herself wondering how she could ever have imagined that they had some kind of common bond , women in medicine , friendship . |
| 20 | The petitions on their own may be unreliable , but the response of the Crown to them must surely be an indication that they had some substance : a government which was regularly short of funds would be unlikely to grant remissions , and the fact that different towns were allowed varying amounts of tax allowance suggests that some attempt was made to calculate the resources available . |
| 21 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 22 | Wires announcing that he had some leave would be sent to the delightful telegraphic address of B.P. which was ‘ Bonzo ’ . |
| 23 | said at a press conference in May that he had some misgivings about a formal sentence bargain , but thought it would be possible to devise a procedure which would be acceptable . |
| 24 | Dana did not ask to see my own poems , which at once made me suspect that he had some knowledge of them already . |
| 25 | Further research may demonstrate that he had some knowledge of science and of medicine . |
| 26 | Sandison suspected that he had some kind of private income but , judging by the state of his clothes , his means , from whatever source , were limited . |
| 27 | Peter wished that he had some kind of weapon . |
| 28 | Richard patted himself to see that he had some matches on him , a gesture which appealed to Nenna , and walked off up the Embankment to call a taxi . |
| 29 | ‘ He says that he had some grub here , around half-past four on Wednesday morning . |
| 30 | But it does seem that he had some hint of the future : not only does his idea of the arena in which Pandemonium ( 1831 ) took place look like Wembley Stadium but his high-rise Tower of Babel in Belshazzar 's Feast might almost have been modelled on the General Accident Life building now going up at the side of Lendal Bridge on the way to York 's Railway Station . |