Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the spare bedroom I had a demountable work-bench with a vice and an array of small tools . |
2 | It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur . |
3 | ‘ And when I 'd parked the car I had an overwhelming urge to kiss you . ’ |
4 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
5 | ‘ You 'll remember my sayin' I had a few aces up m'sleeve , when we discussed our lack of numbers an ’ the possibility of these people operatin' outside patrols ? ’ |
6 | When I started discussions with the social services department I had an open mind about the service to be delivered . |
7 | Some words which had a fixed meaning under the old law were retained , e.g. " receive " in handling , and " menaces " in blackmail . |
8 | Similarly , Cambridge English was originally sustained by the achievements of literary modernism which had a new agenda to write . |
9 | I had found a chiton living on the back of a rock which had a zoanthid colony growing on it . |
10 | So when would a rule or practice which had a discriminatory effect be ‘ justifiable ’ ? |
11 | Next to the central hall was a smaller tepidarium and , beyond , the caldarium which had a domed roof . |
12 | Amy was picking at the letters of the typewriter which had a persistent tendency to stick . |
13 | He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology . |
14 | This phrase is proved as at point 5 , but as the case depends on this point , such evidence is best given by a reliable witness who had a good view of the vehicles concerned . |
15 | The possible influence of maternal hyperglycaemia was assessed by analysing separately the 55 subjects who had a normoglycaemic mother and the 46 subjects who had a mother with non-insulin dependent diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance . |
16 | In this light she had a washed-out look : colourless hair and face , even lips and eyes . |
17 | ‘ You 're a bit early , Mr Wickham , ’ said the barman who had a fine memory for faces from television screens and newspapers . |
18 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
19 | When people queried whether Eva 's alert mind would get bored repeating the same course every couple of months she had a ready answer . |
20 | Just to be on the safe side we had a long rope attached to the raft and tied round a tree on the bank so that if the Indians lost control the rope would pull it to a stop . |
21 | On Tuesday we had a first-class Budget , a Budget for recovery . |
22 | Okay you 're absolutely right er we did play that at the beginning of the programme we had a little trouble with our C D what happened there Stuart it went off the air did n't it ? |
23 | From the roof they had a splendid view , not only of the proceedings below but also over the houses in King Street and Parliament Street , which forked at the end of Whitehall and led into Parliament Square . |
24 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
25 | If York or London needed Bell or Ramsey they had a moral duty to move whether or not they wanted it . |
26 | Short , playing black , dominated the game throughout , and at the end of the first session of play on Tuesday he had a clear advantage in an endgame with superior pieces and a very strong passed pawn . |
27 | Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject . |
28 | Needless to say , being a Finnish car it had a left-hand drive . |
29 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
30 | All institutions are now known as ‘ authorized institutions ’ , and the use of the word ‘ bank ’ was restricted to those institutions which had a paid-up capital of at least f5m , but in all other respects the 1981 classification remained . |