Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such calls are usually of an offensive sexual nature , e.g. heavy breathers and also come under point 3 , but could be offensive in other ways , e.g. telling a woman that her dead husband was having an affair , was homosexual or had a criminal record etc . |
| 2 | Er there were very very few that had a regular job , really . |
| 3 | In such areas the landscape was as much medieval as in the open-field lands but it was very different and had a different pattern of settlement within it . |
| 4 | Fair-haired , he was clean shaven and had a strong face . |
| 5 | Young single women with children are overwhelmingly likely to be living in local authority housing , and those who married early and/or had a pre-marital conception are more likely to do so as well . |
| 6 | The plaintiff was the stepdaughter of the deceased and had a close relationship with him . |
| 7 | He said he was feeling sick and numb and had a crushing pain . |
| 8 | I remember nothing there except a girl in the top class , who was fair-haired and had a bright complexion , and I see her now in my mind 's eye outstretched , lying upon her back on the floor . |
| 9 | The Constable had been in the Force since 1924 and had an excellent character [ and ] served in the trenches at the age of fifteen and a half . |
| 10 | The thigh was straight and had an inturned head , compared ( favourably ) with that of the reptile which is slightly S-shaped and without a head . |
| 11 | It was dark and had a tiny window . |
| 12 | The taxi driver said that the man was well-dressed and had a black beard and pale face . |
| 13 | He was shrivelled , wispy-haired and had a pronounced squint . |
| 14 | Armstrong was born in 1893 and had a classical education at Oxford before reaching art school just before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 15 | At that stage I was optimistic about what we were doing — Jeremy was physically strong and fit and had a resourceful mind and a determined , even stubborn , character . |
| 16 | Normally he was relaxed and had an easy-going manner . |
| 17 | When I replaced him he was quite stressed and as a result a week later became ill and had a fungal growth on him . |
| 18 | The mines were large and had a long life and fitted in with RTZ 's strategic objectives , he added . |
| 19 | The redhead was leggy and had a terrific figure . |
| 20 | His eyes had been rubbed a raw red by fatigue and cold and had a harried glitter . |
| 21 | The temptation to let go was strongly compelling and had a good argument to back it up . |
| 22 | It looked good and had a good choice of books . ’ |
| 23 | When the industry 's senior engineers and managers met him , he appeared to them as a strong-willed , humourless , puritanical idealist , but he was sane , reasonable and had a strong sense of the practical realities of power . |
| 24 | We had Su Friedrich , who 's a lesbian experimental film maker from New York here last year and a whole section of the documentary programme was devoted to her work and it was hugely successful , really stimulating and had a huge audience . ’ |
| 25 | Will 's sister Joan was married and had a little boy , but Will 's brothers did n't have any children . |
| 26 | Six weeks later he felt somewhat better but had an immediate flare-up of painful , bleeding hemorrhoids on the left side , an old symptom . |
| 27 | But for those that had a strong belief in their own capabilities and therefore proceeded , shortage of funds was no problem and they were likely to succeed . |
| 28 | She wished suddenly that she were someone totally different , that she were much smaller and had a small face and tiny feet like Nan had . |
| 29 | Marx 's particular claim was that the macro-historical laws which he had discovered were not just speculative but had a scientific status . |
| 30 | I had the attributes of a boy , in that I was flat-chested , hipless and had a small bottom . |