Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] had [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So before you 're about to criticise the Spectrum , ask yourself this question : if I did n't have a computer and I was trying to look for one and I only had enough money for the Spectrum , what would I do ? |
2 | what would you like from the catalogue sort of thing and I only had this catalogue to Cos I pa you know I paid for it what di did they have ? |
3 | That 's an interesting actually side chart , I mean this is completely off the agenda and things , but erm , I just had some information up from er , from RADA and er |
4 | I tell ya , I just , I just had this sort of yearning for chocolate , ooh |
5 | Of course , I already had some experience with the various falconers ' knots and changing jesses with a bird perched on my fist , but poor old Derek got himself a bit tied up . |
6 | The picture could be executed by a company called Scanachrome in which I already had some interest and it seemed like a good opportunity to get involved with the process . |
7 | Finally , he showed me off the premises with the injunction , accompanied by a theatrical wink , that I should get straight on to him if I ever had any bother . |
8 | and whilst , when I was in hospital I always had that feeling that I 'd love to hear the water lapping on a beach , you know and |
9 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
10 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , trying to find excuses for himself , ‘ I reckon I always had some sort of imminence because I 'd feel a hunch rolling up inside me like a breaker on the ocean and I 'd just know what was going to win . |
11 | I always had this thing in the back of my mind that I 'd like to be Head Gardener at Killerton one day , because of the type of garden it is , because of its size and because of the plant content . |
12 | It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly . |
13 | I still had that hurdle to overcome . |
14 | It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity . |
15 | I still had this idea that my weight was too personal a topic for other people to talk about . |
16 | ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour — to be a woman in control but sexy and fun . |
17 | ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour . |
18 | But I still had more room than I needed in that so that was quite useful . |
19 | Journalistically , I now had more status in the little Gazette office . |
20 | ‘ I do n't think I really had any doubts about them , ’ she said slowly at last . |
21 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
22 | Why , I even had this staff carved from one such , during my last venture there . |
23 | I then had another operation , this time for my back where a piece of my spine was removed and a piece of metal inserted . |
24 | I then had another section to study , one cut at Viroconium ( Wroxeter ) . |
25 | And I therefore had some control — just enough to keep me going — over myself . |
26 | ‘ All my school life , I was under the impression I was not completely stupid but pretty dumb so I never had that oomph . |
27 | I never I never had that feeling . |
28 | I was born wi I never had much hair . |
29 | And I mean there are lots of things now er which er how can I say I never had much interest before erm never thought th that they when you 've seen the help in hand they 've dished out erm , S D P , the erm oh the Council of Churches which you know never There are all sorts of erm I tell you another people and erm I sha the Gay and Lesbian Society you know , people take them er lightly but er it makes you sit up and and think now . |
30 | ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’ |