Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over . |
| 2 | ‘ But once Northants had given me a chance , I did think I had the talent . |
| 3 | I do n't think I had the right attitude towards it . |
| 4 | I recall that during my last six months service I had the magnificent sum of £6/5/ ( £6.25 now ) to spend on myself . |
| 5 | A forward has a sixth sense and from an early stage I realised I had the corner back in my pocket . |
| 6 | I mean I had the same problem when I was secretary . |
| 7 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 8 | Well that 's it cos I 'd , I mean I had the accident , well I mean I , I did n't hurt myself and I was very lucky I did n't hit the cars but erm it was bad enough with er and I ended up on this big grass embankment at the end of the bypass . |
| 9 | I mean I had the information there that you did n't . |
| 10 | I mean I had the heating on to start with and oh I thought this is ridiculous . |
| 11 | all through the weekend he was n't sleeping at night , he was up all night and he was just really yeah , he was really naughty and he was erm , I mean I had the other two erm , |
| 12 | I mean I had the most profound admiration for the kids in New York . |
| 13 | Do you know I had the |
| 14 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that I might marry him . |
| 15 | They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep . |
| 16 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work . |
| 17 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 18 | Do you know she had the sauce to pick up my socks and start smoothing down the eiderdown . ’ |
| 19 | And apparently at speech day she was talking to s do you know she had the cheek to say to me she had the cheek to tell somebody to say that I should at least have the decency to go out with someone who 's half looking , half good looking . |
| 20 | Intended as well to improve the educational chances of children in the deprived inner cities , when first proposed they had the somewhat dubious appearance of being the outcome of a bright idea , one that would kill a variety of birds with the same stone : up with the inner cities ; , down with Local Authorities ; up with privatization ; down with education in the arts . |
| 21 | Then police would know they had the power they need and motorists would know that just one drink too many would cost them their licence . |
| 22 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 23 | When Count Philip of Flanders suspected that his wife had committed adultery with Gautier de Fontaines he had the young man killed by hanging him upside down in a cess-pit . |
| 24 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 25 | , who had felt perfectly well , was astonished to discover he had the early stages of tuberculosis . |
| 26 | built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland . |
| 27 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 28 | ‘ I never believed I had the front . |
| 29 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 30 | ‘ I just do n't feel I had the right level of care . ’ |