Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton .
2 The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina .
3 I bet it 's come again and I was dashing in to , I had about two minutes to Sunday
4 Me and your mam did one this morning , I had about twenty minutes left on it and she helped me finish it off
5 One of the subscribers taking part in the trials said : ‘ I would n't have had the problems I had with malicious calls a few years ago if I 'd had Caller Display then . ’
6 Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each .
7 And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight .
8 I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did .
9 I had for many months loved her from afar .
10 I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it .
11 I was feeling much happier than I had for two years .
12 The two Bangladeshi boys I had for remedial English all this year .
13 Furthermore , the best map I had for this region was twenty-two miles to an inch .
14 I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting .
15 My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs .
16 I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door .
17 I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice .
18 Oh I did n't like them I was , I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like
19 The image I had of whole group drama when I was first introduced to the idea was of a large crowd scene in which everybody was acting as a group .
20 I had to one night the fucking er babysitter was half gassed it 's honest , we opened the fucking , she 's
21 I had at one time abandoned hope that the little book would ever be published , for the only copy , typed laboriously by myself , was stolen from a railway carriage on Delhi Station .
22 I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes
23 You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time .
24 I have really not seen anything as bad as that , apart from the attacks I had from Labour members when I first got the Commons , when they called me Harvey Proctor in drag .
25 I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained .
26 I had by this time met the latter .
27 Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’
28 Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things :
29 I had in last night .
30 ‘ What would I give now to have a joint of beef like I had in those days ! ’
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