Example sentences of "had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also had a smoking room , which was furnished with one electric light and pressurised to prevent hydrogen seeping in . |
| 2 | But she had a detective now : Coffin . |
| 3 | No it is n't we , we have , on Monday we had a spelling test and a table test , but the table was quite easy . |
| 4 | They drank coffee happily , Conrad and Larry had a brandy , Philippa flirted with John to tease Larry before leaving , then they ordered their taxis and suddenly they were all , even Conrad , devastatingly , magically , irreversibly , gone . |
| 5 | They had a brandy , and then another . |
| 6 | He had a flash of inspiration . |
| 7 | Frau Nordern had a flash of temper . |
| 8 | Watt , out for a sabbath stroll past the Golf-House on Glasgow Green when he should have been in church , had a flash of inspiration that was to change the lives of every man , woman , and bairn on planet earth . |
| 9 | While the band were recording the single , Gedge either had a flash of sheer inspiration or hit upon an elaborate chat-up method . |
| 10 | ‘ That wis my mother 's name , Goad rest her soul , ’ said the man for the fourth time and then had a flash of inspiration . |
| 11 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 12 | Sally-Anne had a flash of memory of him just before their abortive lovemaking , remembered how dear she had felt him , so dear that she no longer saw his scarred face , but only Dr Neil , whom she loved . |
| 13 | not been putting on any loud music recently I 've not had , I 'll stretch it out a little bit , but erm you know , we had a heater in here and er , record player and er ra er radio and that . |
| 14 | It is time that they had a backing . |
| 15 | ‘ We had a woodcut of one . |
| 16 | Seeing so much technology in use , the car was ‘ looked over ’ to see if we had a radar detector — we did n't . |
| 17 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
| 18 | Not 10 minutes had gone by before I was asked , in a very accusing tone of voice , if I had a ticket , and on producing it was informed that I should cease and desist . |
| 19 | Labour law and order spokesman Alun Michael MP said : ‘ If every item of shopping we bought had a ticket telling us how much of its price was due to crime losses and higher insurance premiums , we would all be appalled . |
| 20 | You have told me you had a ticket to Miami to go and shoot herself and Jimmy Zaidie but you cancelled it , although I know you did go to Miami subsequently ( around Christmas time 1986 ) to carry out your threat . ’ |
| 21 | Mind you I had a ticket I had a weekly cos . |
| 22 | We 're not serving cheese across the counter here.If you had a ticket that said you were 5th in the queue you would be falsely reassured if the people ahead of you were seriously ill or dying . |
| 23 | If one represents the sentence as , roughly speaking , HIT [ boy = agent , girl = acted-upon , flower = instrument ] then clearly this representation applies just as well to the active and to the passive sentences we have just given ( and to many other sentences too , such as ‘ The boy hit the girl , and he used a flower to do it ’ or ‘ There was boy , and he had a flower , and he hit the girl with it ’ ) . |
| 24 | In those days Covent Garden still had a flower market . |
| 25 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 26 | ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’ |
| 27 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 28 | and she had a plaster on her arm , right |
| 29 | and she had a plaster on her arm , right |
| 30 | ‘ The casuals had dinner from 12.45 to 2.0 p.m. , worked from 2.0 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. , and from 3.30 had a make-and-mend and washed their shirts before tea . |