Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] had [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country .
2 Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes .
3 Boy I had that person finish .
4 When I was a little lad I had this mongrel puppy ; he got summat wrong wi ’ him , and the vet wanted to put him down .
5 On one occasion I had some winter clothes brought in and it did take up literally half the visit , sorting all that out , and arguing about what I could and could n't have .
6 They they had er they had hamme They had Again y Even in my day you had some hand squads , as they were called , who would have their own er rivet hammers you know , and hand hammers .
7 However the next month she had severe blood loss with the period and the Arsenicum LM3 she was on did n't produce the same sense of wellbeing .
8 The following week we had another family party , and various outings with friends .
9 And then again this morning he had another business engagement , but this time a different one , apparently , for he had put on his best suit and bowler hat and his black top-coat .
10 In addition they had two camel guns , small cannons which could be mounted on saddles and fired from the backs of camels ; for the circumstances these had been mounted on the back of a plush sofa which had been recovered from the rampart where it had served during the rains .
11 Several blind people complained of the excessive concern over their inability to make eye contact with clients and the difficulty they had convincing teaching staff that they could cope .
12 At the Moravian Church we had fine Advent hymns , and once I got as far as Bunyan Meeting and heard theirs .
13 What was that large thing I had last night mum ?
14 During the summer we had serious problems report on childrens homes which erm which y'know which pointed out a few things y'know that had n't been doing well , mainly , mainly in defence of erm because they did put in a lot of effort
15 And on this farm he had some ducks eei eei Oh
16 Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank .
17 For evening entertainment we had two slide shows and a ceilidh .
18 When I joined the company it had fifty-eight blast furnaces , the largest of which produced 2,750 tons a day .
19 At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend …
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