Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I wish that I had her guts , ’ I thought .
2 ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’
3 He 'd expected it , he added , since he noticed that I had my own plate and cup at work , and bought tea for whoever was sitting with me .
4 I wish , silently , that I had my Trangia .
5 It was on the morning when registration began that I had my fatal encounter .
6 Later , he would tell Radio One 's Janice Long : ‘ I believed that I had my own work to do .
7 Now that I had my dolls and their dolls ' houses , I set about playing with them with the greatest pleasure , and when I visited Wood Green I shut my eyes to some of the realities .
8 But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like .
9 Because I knew that I had my weaknesses , perhaps that is the reason that I was not more successful .
10 But it was not until 1990 that I had my first spawning , and raised fry .
11 It was not until many years later when I was a principal inspector in 1965 that I had my first direct encounter with ICAO itself .
12 I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others .
13 Then Holmes checked with me that I had my gun , an army revolver .
14 At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy .
15 And used to happen twice a year and erm sometimes somebody 'd remember my birthday or find that I had my birthday or and at Christmas time we used to get some money .
16 ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’
17 It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’
18 that I had my perm , and you know how it 's dead
19 ( Not , by the way , that I have my heart particularly set on a boy but , having grown up with only brothers , I do n't quite know what the female clichés look like . )
20 Delors , vouchsafes a little more of his vision of a centralised , bureaucratic , and socialist Europe , I confess that I have my doubts .
21 One claims that I have his thighs and legs , another that I have his torso .
22 One claims that I have his thighs and legs , another that I have his torso .
23 She does not know ( and shall not unless you reveal it ) that I have your records of Braemar conversations .
24 If you were a professional model I should probably require you to take every stitch of clothing off , let alone your shoes and stockings , and , if you will remember , it is on the grounds of the business-like aspect of this arrangement that I have your aunt 's sanction to paint you .
25 All the evidence suggests that she had her confessor wrapped around her little finger : while claiming the complete obedience appropriate to her spiritual supervisor she in fact got round every attempt he ever made to make her moderate her life style ; she persuaded him to confer his blessing and approval on her choices .
26 To look at her you would have thought that she had her life perfectly in control — but how wrong you would have been .
27 Later she became so paranoid about their power that she had her room searched for bugs .
28 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health .
29 At one time the beliefs held about woman in the church , that she might not be ordained , that she was placed subordinate to man , that she had her ‘ own ’ sphere of motherhood , were simply at one with the beliefs of the world in which the church was situated .
30 So she agreed to that bargain , and for a few days more kept the secret to herself , still hopeful that she might be mistaken , and yet at the same time aware of a feeling of inner triumph at the knowledge that she had her very own baby growing inside her womb .
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