Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well according to the er Express I just had a look at , they reckon it 's on but for about half the original sum . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've always said you were the best blacksmith I ever had . ’ |
| 3 | About nationalisation I never had any doubt . |
| 4 | I told Marty I just had to go and find out . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And of course I always had to argue instead and make things worse . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It seemed like it was the hardest decision I ever had to make in my life . |
| 7 | " The best Christmas present I ever had . |
| 8 | I compare the Government 's record to the experience I once had of helping to redecorate a pensioner 's home to brighten up the dingy gloom . |
| 9 | It was the most moving experience I ever had . |
| 10 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 11 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
| 12 | In the early months I still had my natural aversion to overcome , before I understood the fundamental strangeness of the process of fruition . |
| 13 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 14 | It was the colour of a skirt I once had that he had specially liked . |
| 15 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 16 | An easy and quick process even with the large amount of data I already had stored . |
| 17 | and this Molly she always had to be different |
| 18 | There was still her car to worry about , not forgetting that interview she still had to secure , but … |
| 19 | If you attended the lunchtime fringe meeting on shops you probably had even more food for thought . |
| 20 | In other words you essentially had the choice on the spot of saying , ‘ Yes , I certainly did it , and here 's my fiver or whatever it is , ’ or ‘ No I do n't agree with you and I would like to go through the proper judicial procedures . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You know , the only ambition she ever had for me was to marry well and bring up the colour of the family . ’ |
| 22 | You see , if a performance lacks this it becomes boring ; and with Strauss you always had the sense of the music moving forward . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm saying that not even a ten-year-old would fall for the line of crap you just had me feed Kevin . ’ |
| 24 | In the last exercise you learnt that to remove a number from one side of an equation you simply had to do the opposite or reverse operation to both sides . |
| 25 | Make way for the best PM you never had ! |
| 26 | ALTHOUGH LIVING IN WALLINGTON SHE ALREADY HAD A SENSE OF HER ROOTS IN WALES . |
| 27 | The last horse we ever had was the best , a plump little Dales pony called Thomas . |
| 28 | ‘ I was the best field agent we ever had . |
| 29 | As a result we often had differences of opinion . |
| 30 | I mean , on the second album we sometimes had as many as forty guitar tracks on one song . |