Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a special [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Buckinghamshire village boy ‘ liked best to go and stay ’ with a farming grandmother , finding a ‘ special quiet ’ and ‘ peace ’ about her ; while a Yorkshire weaver 's son who went to stay with his grandmother for several weeks ‘ during family sickness ’ always kept the bond they made then — ‘ religious , yet loving , although seemingly cold , perhaps I had a special bit of her love , for she corrected me with thrashing me . ’ |
| 2 | I had a special ticket , because I was a newspaper reporter . |
| 3 | I had a special concession from … from someone . ’ |
| 4 | And she had a special name for it , I ca n't remember what is was now , but it was an innocuous word , like erm erm , kneading , or something like that , something you do with your fingers . |
| 5 | She had a special driver , who unlike some , cared for his horse and never overworked her . |
| 6 | Nicknamed Janet Gaynor by the make-up artists because of her resemblance to the star , she was generally liked not simply because of her sunny nature , but because she had a special hobby ; she read the teacups . |
| 7 | And this er oh dear what was the name of it , they had a special title for the man that sort of ran the stall as they called it for getting the coal out and he he chose who he wanted to go to work . |
| 8 | ‘ They had a special route round the garden which was just about a mile , and they put one stone down every time they passed it ’ , the assistant gardener Fred Drury observed . |
| 9 | She knew it was right to go to London University because she hoped one day to teach in Africa , and they had a special course in education in relation to tropical areas . |
| 10 | Even the , what few bits of lorries were on the road , they had a special mask on with er a shield over the top , so that the light was n't visible up above . |
| 11 | They had a special relationship , stronger even than the normal father-daughter relationship . |
| 12 | Lying across the East-West divide , the Germans began to feel they had a special understanding of world peace , as well as that they had been singled out by the ‘ Great Powers ’ as Europe 's potential war playground . |
| 13 | But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap |
| 14 | Sybil , up in Hampstead or with one of her many friends , kept the home fire burning and joined the gang when they had a special bash . |
| 15 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |
| 16 | It had a special message for the Labour Party , and was surely a major reason for Labour 's growing loss of confidence between the 1950s and 1980s , including the failure to produce any convincing successor to Crosland as a theorist of democratic socialism . |
| 17 | Yes that that 's right it had a special name . |
| 18 | It had a special phone number , was equipped with a computer and was permanently manned by a PC or a WPC . |
| 19 | But it had a special place in many north Londoners ' hearts . |
| 20 | Wayne , Ricky 's favourite pony , had such a low threshold of boredom that he had a special manger hooked over the half-door so he could eat and miss nothing in the yard at the same time . |
| 21 | Williamson felt he had a special bond with Hitler , and even at times imagined aloud that he had spoken to him on that fateful Christmas day . |
| 22 | With great patience and no doubt a certain amount of pride , for here he was expert , he minutely described the cultivation of pineapples , melons and oranges in stoves and greenhouses , cucumbers on hot beds and of early fruits , wall-forced , for which he had a special reputation . |
| 23 | He had a special sympathy for the underdog , and he enjoyed hobnobbing with all and sundry . |
| 24 | Pembroke was well placed to speak for those who wanted a more vigorous and successful war : he had a special place in the king 's affections , and he had acquitted himself well in Aquitaine . |
| 25 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 26 | He contributed heavily from his family wealth to this Church , and also to many other organisations for deaf children and adults both in Britain and on the continent of Europe ; he had a special interest in the deaf people of Ireland , and was the first President of the National Deaf and Dumb Society , forerunner of the British Deaf Association . |
| 27 | He stayed in Buckingham Palace where he had a special classroom just for him . |
| 28 | On that occasion he had a special reason — though an odd one — for his refusal : he was fully occupied with the duty of defence which had been entrusted to him by the king . |
| 29 | Perhaps in the matter of excitement Davis and Baker between them had a special way of making the blood dance , but ( listen to the Overture , for instance ) Nelson achieves a fine clarity of texture and , even more than Davis , he makes the phrases ‘ speak ’ . |
| 30 | We used to do it almost as a social thing , a conventional Spanish gesture which for us had a special meaning — or at least it did for me , because I looked upon it as a seal on our friendship . |