Example sentences of "[conj] i had [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned out to be an efficient chairman of the BBC but my first impression was amply confirmed since , although I had frequent dealings with him , he seemed to have absolutely no interest in what to me really mattered . |
| 2 | I saw that I had new books by my bedside . |
| 3 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 4 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 5 | Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
| 8 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 9 | Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division . |
| 10 | No matter that I had little knowledge of regional variety . |
| 11 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 12 | And it meant that I had free access to the whole of the so much so , I had a key to the bottom of entry in er access to the firm and I could get in when I liked . |
| 13 | It seemed all wrong that I had horizontal loops across the face of the work . |
| 14 | I told him that I had another shop in Westmead which has been approved by the Ministry of Environment and the RSPCA and that this one will be run in the same way . |
| 15 | The only snag was that I had bad after-effects from the anaesthetic . |
| 16 | Oh I did n't feel that I had any gripes from our point of view . |
| 17 | Without really still thinking that I had any chance of success , I went back down to the Circle Line and journeyed on to Liverpool Street . |
| 18 | No way could a person eat something like that — not that I had any intention of killing and consuming the poor creature , now that my eyes had been opened . |
| 19 | ‘ Not that I had any doubts on the score , ’ Penry assured her as they set off towards Haverfordwest . |
| 20 | I can claim that I did , and that I never breached that trust , assuming that I had any information of a sufficiently intriguing character to make it worthwhile betraying a friend . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To the late Dr Melville Clark , the Reader in Rhetoric , I owe the discovery that I had some talent for editing text . |
| 25 | The camera hones in on a platinum blonde Madonna , poured into a slinky , strapless white dress that she swears ‘ took more fittings than I had shooting days in the movie ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've still got a steel plate and screws in my leg after breaking both ankles last year and I had two falls in four days in July . |
| 27 | I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence . |
| 28 | And I had total confidence in Robin as , very touchingly , he had in me when we climbed on the mountain . |
| 29 | Although my hon. Friends the Member for Billericay ( Mrs. Gorman ) and for Basildon and I had certain concerns about the overall reorganisation proposed — my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay and I expressed them very forcefully , as my hon. Friend the Minister knows — we took exactly the same line as the community health council on the centralisation of casualty . |
| 30 | I also did a great deal of business with Alfred Gates , director of Ackermann 's , and I had great respect for him . |