Example sentences of "[pron] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I asked him for something to ease the pain , but he reminded me that he could n't because I had a head wound . |
| 32 | I had a singing day one ! |
| 33 | I had a parting question for him . |
| 34 | I had a hernia operation last year in Darlington Memorial Hospital and can not speak too highly of the staff and my treatment . |
| 35 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 36 | I had a vision of someone standing not far behind me with a gun , waiting for me to move . |
| 37 | I had a vision of Our Lady . |
| 38 | I had a vision there too once long ago . |
| 39 | I had a vision thus prospectively of these birds as I stood in the swamps . |
| 40 | Four wee Galway fish fired out songs dedicated to musicians , a female journalist from In Dublin and anyone called ‘ Sally ’ , while I had a vision of all hides and hair . |
| 41 | I had a vision of the little green car waiting quietly at the roadside . |
| 42 | You did n't have to have the soul of a poet to conjure up what could have been ; in my mind 's eye I had a vision of Templars in their faceless conical helmets , red and white crosses on their black cloaks , moving across the island at the dead of night , the barges being soundlessly poled whilst , at prow and stern , huge cresset torches spluttered and flared in the darkness . |
| 43 | Whenever I had a sheet of paper in front of me and a paintbrush or pencil in my hand , the result was inevitable . |
| 44 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ In the high flourishing finance days of MainMan I had a secretary , a wonderful car , limousines everywhere , and bills paid for everything at places like Bloomingdales . |
| 45 | ‘ I had a girl whose dog was the bridesmaid . |
| 46 | But then I got promoted at work and suddenly I had a salary to borrow against . |
| 47 | I flew the Corsair down to Stansted and after landing the chap in charge of fuel allocations asked me if I had a cheque card . |
| 48 | I had a cheque for some thirteen hundred pounds raised by the local branch of National body , a body like Round Table , although it was n't Round Table , it was another body like that , and that will buy thirteen houses in Everland in Southern India . |
| 49 | Erm I had a company called and Advertising erm where I went along to a company and would conceive promotion for them . |
| 50 | ‘ I had a school governors ’ meeting . |
| 51 | I thought I had a mould . |
| 52 | Met him in Stratford last summer when Dinda and I had a cottage , |
| 53 | Dinda and I had a cottage in Stratford last , we made sure that father was going to Plymouth to Debbie 's for the week , he said he adores it down there |
| 54 | If I had a fairy godmother — please , make G.P. twenty years younger . |
| 55 | Well one day , I had a knock at the door and it was a Mr from Stepney Causeway that is the headquarters of Barnardos . |
| 56 | I had a knock or two , but that was it . |
| 57 | last year I had a hoover , the year before that I had erm a teas maker , which I 've got a Goblin teas maker they bought me |
| 58 | Somewhere beyond Amiens I had a memory of the car-ferry docks at Calais . |
| 59 | The light was so confusing , the monster 's movements so fast , that I had a memory only of an abstraction of sculptured bone . |
| 60 | ‘ I ca n't remember the last time I had a holiday although I go abroad to work . |