Example sentences of "have [num] big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From our point of view marriage has one big drawback , you see . |
| 2 | NOVEMBER has one big thing going for it — it 's an improvement on October . |
| 3 | This runs at 12 volts , and has two big advantages over normal lighting : the bulbs can be very much smaller ( and often come in small attractive fittings ) , and the light bulbs last longer , and are much cheaper to run . |
| 4 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 5 | Kanchelskis , forced out of tonight 's UEFA first-round clash because of the restriction on foreigners , said : ‘ The players from Torpedo will have one big plan in mind . |
| 6 | I said why did n't we have one big camp , for Christ 's sake . |
| 7 | Everything seems to have gone wrong for poor old Gooch since his marriage broke up , culminating in that bizarre dismissal on Monday , but he does at least have one big advantage over the other members of the trio . |
| 8 | But it does have one big thing going for it . |
| 9 | But they 're only having one big present each this year . |
| 10 | Well I know in one terrace alone in Street , Street used to have three big bonfires in this two hundred yards and I 've known one terrace , Terrace to have as many as twenty mattresses you know piled on the street ready for , and the big lad the bigger lads used to , to get the props get somebody 's prop and stoke the fire up and put the mattresses on . |
| 11 | a couple of days they seem to have two big sellers on as well and then one , one day |
| 12 | It had 2 big inns , and we 're more or less , well , we are on the site of the first one , Blue Boar Inn , and on your map , rather strangely , it seems to be built across the opening of Blue Boar Lane , I do n't know if you can see . |
| 13 | then I had another I had another wee problem that I 'd been , I had been to see , and it was Doctor I had been , and the doctor that I saw the last time er I had three big bruises on my back , and she |
| 14 | It had three big windows with iron doors and white walls and you used to go into the house up a flight of steps because there were shops underneath . |
| 15 | Rose had three big stones filling up her hands . |
| 16 | despite his string of conquests [ he ] had one big hang-up . |
| 17 | They had one big enemy , and the enemy 's name was Routine . |
| 18 | I had two big conflicts and would end the day a bag of nerves , not knowing whether I 'd come home with anything . |
| 19 | We had two big smoke-houses in the garden . |
| 20 | There were indeed three men of £200 at Cirencester , a major centre of the West of England wool trade , but they had few peers locally ; Newbury had four big clothiers , including the son of the legendary John Winchcombe , who was worth £630 , but here too there was no concentration of wealth comparable with that of Suffolk . |
| 21 | However , parents have one big advantage and that is that they now have access to the GCSE and A-level exam results of all pupils — that is the biggest giveaway ! |
| 22 | New Zealand farmers have one big advantage in any marketing campaign : their country 's sparklingly clean environment . |
| 23 | Valleys have one big advantage over hills . |
| 24 | and it was windy right , he got a tree a third of the height of that on a table , they puts it up on a table , and underneath the tree they have got one present which is member of the family from each member of the family , right , that is it , one present , it maybe a box of chocolates , you know , or a box of cigars , something like that , children wake up Christmas morning they have a bag which is about that big , with a full of sweets and bits and pieces , little toy car thing and they have one big present , right , and I 'll tell you what festivity over there is as well , that must , it because it 's not over dark because there no big glory about it , there so much more relaxed that , well Chris he said , yeah |