Example sentences of "[noun] she had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this light she had a washed-out look : colourless hair and face , even lips and eyes . |
| 2 | When people queried whether Eva 's alert mind would get bored repeating the same course every couple of months she had a ready answer . |
| 3 | During the campaign she had a high-profile role as the woman who was prepared to keep tight control over the purse strings and demonstrate Labour 's readiness for Government by rejecting demands from her Shadow Cabinet colleagues for excessive spending . |
| 4 | b She had a fresh complexion . |
| 5 | Next instant she had a great thrill , for as the van swung into the lane past her she saw that it was full of Brownies , with luggage all around them ! |
| 6 | During this race she had a lucky escape when she fell to the deck from spreader level while aloft trying to trip a jammed spinnaker . |
| 7 | By the standards of the Dubrovlag she had a nice home , a two-bedroomed bungalow on the outer edge of the village . |
| 8 | Miss but by god she had a good aim , she might have been bloody dotty |
| 9 | Two old sisters in Portsmouth kept shops side by side : the great-aunt running a coal shop where ‘ you had to go in there with your pail , and they weighed the coal ’ , with vegetables as a sideline , while ‘ my gran she had a wee shop and she used to sell toffee apples . ’ |
| 10 | Then one day she had a real reason to worry . |
| 11 | From an early age she had a strong dislike for conventional aristocratic ‘ society ’ . |
| 12 | She was , as Ward had said , rusty as hell , but behind the rust she had a solid look to her . |
| 13 | She enjoyed the pleasures of court life as much as her daughter ; and the woman who rejected Henry VIII 's proposal by saying that although she was a tall woman she had a little neck , showed that she did not lack wit . |
| 14 | In Let's Make Love she had a well-publicized affair with her co-star , Yves Montand . |
| 15 | On her right hand she had a large pile of blanks . |
| 16 | Later that year she had a negative laparotomy and it was concluded that her pain was psychological . |
| 17 | Last year she had a lovely crop from her plot , which measures about 2ft by 3ft ; this year she dug it over in plenty of time for May 4 , the day on which she sows on the basis of an old saying : ‘ the 4th of May is kidney bean day ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps in that way she had a lucky escape . ’ |
| 19 | At the sight of windows lit against the gathering gloom she had a sudden desire to turn tail and run , to take refuge below in the Angharad . |
| 20 | She hurried back down to put away the food already in the kitchen , and by the time Penry returned with the last couple of boxes she had a tea-tray waiting , complete with a plate of tempting cakes from the small bakery in Brides Haven . |
| 21 | Outside their little house she had a little plot of land . |
| 22 | In fact she had a heavy date with a lady who undertook to slim thighs with ultra-sound . |