Example sentences of "[pers pn] had was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 2 | The exhibition could be read on many levels , but the immediate impression I had was of its strong Americanism . |
| 3 | The most professional approach which I had was in fact via an intermediary who was acting on behalf of an existing customer of the company who employed me and whose objective was to sound out general interest without disturbing the importance of on-going business relationships . |
| 4 | All I had was in that crate , its death |
| 5 | The only difficulties I had was in the last 24 hours when the steering gave me problems . ’ |
| 6 | The only idea she had was of discovering some sort of shelter for the night , for she must catch the stage to her destination early in the morning . |
| 7 | The oddest call she had was from Teesside airport , where one was stuck up a drainpipe making squeaking noises . |
| 8 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 9 | We were all working flat out and the only break we had was on the second Sunday when Isvik was on the slip and the Yard closed . |
| 10 | Yes , they 're just putting , well th th most erm useful erm conversation we had was with the , the ophthalmologist , she was , she was superb erm and advised us to get it done as soon as possible . |
| 11 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 12 | So that was nineteen eighty two , the first one we had was at the end of nineteen eighty four , which was at . |
| 13 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 14 | Oh , and the , the trip they had was to er the Middle East , erm in the desert |
| 15 | The foreman , Ricky Hill , said afterwards that the only problem they had was in deciding exactly when Mr Bakker began the pattern of fraud . |
| 16 | What power it had was in the hands of an aging bureaucracy . |
| 17 | The doctors did all that all he had was in the leg . |