Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] have my [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Shortly afterwards we returned to English prep schools , where I quickly had my French beaten out of me in French grammar classes , and where Lorne responded by continuing to be unable to talk or , rather , to speak in any known language , for he would hold forth volubly in a tongue uniquely his own .
2 I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign .
3 Just as Montgomery kept a photo of Rommel beside him in his desert caravan , so I now had my cancer cell .
4 Problem was I was playing a British Military Police Chief , and I still had my uniform on when I turned up at this place .
5 I wish I was wrong and I still had my pension .
6 I also went out every day , and I always had my gun with me .
7 I do n't much like Turgenev — I think the death of Bazarov in Fathers and Sons is unconvincing and unfair to the reader — and I always have my watch fifteen minutes fast .
8 Dad , if I still had my wee Claxton Annabel could go outside and play in it .
9 But I still have my mother , three sisters , a sort of sister-in-law , and four nieces .
10 but I still have my wedding-ring
11 Just when I never had my thing .
12 The last lines are no less appropriate : ‘ Fools , for I also had my hour , one far fierce hour and sweet .
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