Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 2 | " She had a certain style about her , " she says . |
| 3 | ‘ In Kylie 's case , she had a certain spark , that something extra . |
| 4 | Esther was no beauty , but she had a certain handsomeness about her , a particular wickedness he had not seen in other women . |
| 5 | There was er y you had er you had a certain amount to make every day . |
| 6 | For up to then , even if the old buggers in the club were lewd , they had a certain style . |
| 7 | They had a certain prestige within the neighbourhood and influence within the world of football was part of this process of ‘ making good ’ . |
| 8 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 9 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 10 | They had a certain similarity , all of them , and they all lacked something , though most were very beautiful to look at . |
| 11 | If the benefits of large families were obvious in the Irish peasant society in which we had once had our roots , they had a certain value for us too ; they scored vital points on the council housing list . |
| 12 | But for all that they had a certain passion . |
| 13 | A ridiculous word in itself , but it had a certain swing about it . |
| 14 | Geoff Link 's smile was not quite right , it had a certain relief , of course , but it held the promise of something more . |
| 15 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 16 | We have let a few people remix a few things , just for fun , but normally I would n't want to change it ; it had a certain magic at the time . |
| 17 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |
| 18 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 19 | No one else did , and Salah was careful to stagger the entertainments so that the foreign teachers ( for whom he had a certain distaste ) should arrive and leave before the other guests . |
| 20 | He had a certain style and authority . |
| 21 | His voice — he had a certain valve or muscle working on it . |
| 22 | He had a certain number of men-at-arms in the town , who could , probably , contain a revolt of the townsfolk , at least for a little while . |
| 23 | For all his simplicity and rough appearance he had a certain grace of figure . |