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 ! ’ |