Example sentences of "[pron] have a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One youngster told him : ‘ Everyone has a really good time . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone has a positively dramatic sense of timing . ’ |
| 3 | Bored and lonely , yes , but I had a reasonably pleasant time of things all the same . |
| 4 | Once I had a rather nerve-racking experience with him when I was working the horse rake in the lower field . |
| 5 | I had a most successful career at school . |
| 6 | Last April , nearly a year ago , I had a most moving spiritual experience . |
| 7 | I had a most interesting conversation about Italian opera with a waiter called Giovanni , who was as enthusiastic as me about Verdi . |
| 8 | I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place . |
| 9 | It may have been the combination of the early hour and a squeamish stomach , but during the whole of our short stay on the island I had a most peculiar feeling of being transported back through time to another age . |
| 10 | Boswell here lets fly with a breath-taking assumption that country folk had a lonely , miserable time : ‘ I had a most disagreeable [ that is to say distressing ] notion of the life of a country gentleman , ’ and he left Mr Fraser , he said , ‘ as one leaves a prisoner in a jail ’ . |
| 11 | By this time I had a pretty firm image of the tables in my mind . |
| 12 | It is from that kind of what the Germans call fingerspitzen Gefühl — just from the smell of it — that I had a pretty good idea that North was spending a lot of his time on Central American things . |
| 13 | I had a pretty good marriage going with Vera . |
| 14 | I had a pretty good idea what they wanted to discuss with me . |
| 15 | Once I had a pretty decent collection of films on tape , but I ca n't handle anything continuous any more . |
| 16 | Malpass said I had a pretty clear-cut choice . |
| 17 | I had a pretty open mind on the subject . |
| 18 | After re-decorating my kitchen I had a nearly new vegetable rack spare . |
| 19 | cos I had a right old attitude , I mean , I mean , I know it sounds modest , but , I was doing it well , do n't get me wrong , I was doing it , and I , but then it started getting a bit |
| 20 | I had a particularly gruesome review quite recently . |
| 21 | So , instead of leaving it idle , I sold the machine and donated the money to a charity for the disabled , as I had a mentally disabled sister who died when I was 13 . |
| 22 | ‘ After all , ’ she went on , ‘ I had a perfectly valid reason for being there . |
| 23 | I had a damn good clear out I think most of mine have gone . |
| 24 | I said I had a damn good go at her yesterday afternoon ! |
| 25 | I had a damn good clear up here . |
| 26 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
| 27 | I taught at a private primary school for girls and really , compared with what some teachers go through , I had a terribly easy time , but I still could n't cope . |
| 28 | stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys . |
| 29 | ‘ I had a far happier childhood than you did , from the sound of it . |
| 30 | ‘ I had a very strong reaction to the first episode . |