Example sentences of "[pron] be a [noun] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN I were a lad I had one great driving ambition in life . |
| 2 | One night I dreamed I was a butterfly and , upon waking , was never able to discern whether I was a man who had dreamed that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that he was a man . |
| 3 | When I was a child we had two bay-coloured horses , and I later got to know them very well . |
| 4 | national vocation I I really think that it 's worse because they 've not , whereas when I was a trainee you had your six weeks on produce , your six weeks on whatever in the branch of that now and they did n't have that , they have n't got any training plan , so they 've got nothing to say well career , branch branch need here and I need to be here and I need to be here . |
| 5 | I felt as if I was a schoolboy who had done something wrong and was being taken to see the headmaster . |
| 6 | Yet they work somehow , because her is a man who had the courage to state it as it is , with such conviction and such power and optimism that somehow you get caught up in his enthusiasm and believe with him , if only for those three chords . |
| 7 | Stephen listened carefully to both , his head forward and down , like a horse 's hanging over a gate , which was a way he had and not altogether due to the curve in his spine . |
| 8 | but erm , and these people were assigned erm three separate sections erm , Harold for instance , he took over Further Education which was a term which had n't been erm , was not an accepted term in those days because we 'd always er referred to it as Higher Education |
| 9 | Pleased and strangely girlish , which was a feeling she had not had in a very long time . |
| 10 | After a couple of sentences he went into the present tense , which was a habit he had in speaking of the past , as if it were the plot of some play he was about to do . |
| 11 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 12 | She was a nurse who had never been kissed , and he had been married to a sensational young actress . |
| 13 | But , she reminded herself , he still despised her because she was a fortune-hunter who had conned the family jewels from his innocent kid brother … |
| 14 | She was a woman he had known for several years now ; one with whom he had never slept ; one who half repelled , and ever half attracted him . |
| 15 | She was a woman who had always been kept in comfort , had had no troubles to speak of , leaving all decisions to her husband . |
| 16 | Women never are , and she was a woman who had experienced more of life than her years would contain . |
| 17 | ‘ A proper old duck ’ , she was known as locally , but she was a duck who had somehow acquired a set of sharp teeth with a bite . |
| 18 | Francis Carco , who was a friend who had bought Modigliani 's work before the crowd , also bought Modigliani 's paintings , but he was given them for what he himself described as a ridiculously cheap price . |
| 19 | If we were a fruiterer. we had more more quote like er wh what did they call them ? |
| 20 | Despite the market uncertainties and many other problems there were a number who had made great strides and it seemed that many would succeed . |
| 21 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 22 | There was a dress I had when I was eighteen . ’ |
| 23 | In the last year of the war there was a girl who had a job in Simon 's office . |
| 24 | Then there was a noise we had not heard before . |
| 25 | He made an excuse and went home early — there was a review he had to write . |
| 26 | And there was a picture who had fallen off one of the lorries in Bosnia erm one of the refugee lorries and was running along trying to catch up with her parents . |
| 27 | There was a letter which had been opened and shoved back into the envelope . |
| 28 | There was a switch she had n't noticed before . |
| 29 | Over at the west end of Hury there was a house which had been a pub called the Hare and Hounds , occupied by a family who were rather special to me . |
| 30 | She repeated the word softly , testing the sound of it on her lips , as if it were a word she had never heard before . |