Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] had an " in BNC.
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| 1 | However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards . |
| 2 | However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges . |
| 3 | they mentioned he had an excellent game — and from the goals showed the scot goalkeeper could have done much better on two of the italian goals … specially the first one — a flat shot from far out and at an angle too . |
| 4 | He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park . |
| 5 | We all assumed you had an affair in Moscow . ’ |
| 6 | Provided that people in this country believed they had an honest system of government which dispensed even-handed justice , then there was no need to tamper with the law unless public order was threatened . |
| 7 | Purity workers believed they had an obligation to reclaim their ‘ fallen ’ sisters , but the problem of prostitution was always tackled by a mixture of benevolent charity and coercive threat . |
| 8 | He told he had an important engagement and must go , on the Saturday night . |
| 9 | Because transplanted quail cells will behave normally in chick embryos , she realized she had an invaluable natural marker . |
| 10 | Miss Fitzgerald — born in Andover , Hants — is referred to as ‘ Jennifer With a J ’ since singer Gennifer ‘ With a G ’ Flowers claimed she had an affair with Democrat candidate Bill Clinton . |
| 11 | A BRIDE-TO-BE was murdered in a frenzied knife attack by a man who claimed he had an impulse to kill . |
| 12 | By the way he was wriggling on the seat , she guessed he had an erection . |
| 13 | I was all set to attend his mother 's barbecue , but then he discovered I had an assignment and refused to let me cancel . ’ |
| 14 | After my waters broke I had an uncontrollable urge to push but the midwife told me not to . |
| 15 | Although fully furnished it had an air of emptiness and desolation . |
| 16 | I think she thought I had an eye on your grandad . ’ |
| 17 | The Sandrat knew she had an edge . |
| 18 | She knew she had an audience . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope you do n't mind me arriving without an appointment like this but I understood you had an Open Door policy . ’ |
| 20 | To one who thought she had an equal right |
| 21 | We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations . |
| 22 | I thought we had an agreement . |
| 23 | I think they thought they had an alcoholic on their hands . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed , for a while , the British Treasury thought they had an ally in the Germans in opposing the Delors Report . |
| 25 | But when he also stepped out of his clothes , she saw he had an erection . |
| 26 | When Mrs Chamberlin had gone , hurrying into the gloomy February afternoon , her oatmeal figure bent resolutely against the wind , Alexandra looked round the drawing-room and saw it had an animated , unsettled look , as if the last caller had stirred everything to action , all the silver photograph frames , the vases and pin-cushions , the rugs and cushions and shaded lamps . |
| 27 | She knew he had an early appointment with one of his lawyers and hoped that that was what was distancing him from her this morning . |
| 28 | The prime minister 's smile spread even further in the slightly crooked way it had when he thought he had an opponent hoist with his own petard . |
| 29 | To his embarrassment he realised he had an erection and moved quickly to place a copy of the Teheran Times on his lap before the stewardess reached his row . |
| 30 | If whoever bought it had an unsavoury reputation it would n't do much harm to the seagulls or Brent geese . |