Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have a big [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You go in for three days and you have a big dose of drugs . |
2 | I remember the one one of the ladies , er she was dressed in erm in green and she had a big bow . |
3 | And a big hat and she had a big bow she looked you know . |
4 | ‘ She is strong and athletic ’ says Slater ‘ and she has a big serve . |
5 | My father was a miner but loved his garden and we had a big smallholding |
6 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
7 | They must have been renewed somewhere about the erm I would say roughly round about nineteen twenty seven , twenty eight and that 's been renewed as lock gates , cos they took 'em out and they had a big crane come from Rotterdam to lift them up and er things do now well that 's surprising what they do do now . |
8 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
9 | And I was downstairs with Lottie ; and we were taking coats , do you see ; people were coming in to lunch or dinner — I forget — we were taking the coats , and a man went upstairs — I do n't know who he was — and he had a big head , and it was completely bald ! |
10 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
11 | He was a horrid little rat like creature and he had a big swastika on his stomach . |
12 | and it had a big basement and everything on it . |
13 | and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs |