Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it .
2 They are still a great club and they had several internationals out there . ’
3 They were the Bay City Rollers meets The Hammer Of The Gods — except they did n't dress crap and they had good hair .
4 However , neither Gabriel 's lab nor ours had much idea of how , if at all , the IMHV and the LPO might be functionally connected , or what part each region played in the general economy of the brain .
5 So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck .
6 You know I went and showed my dogs over there and afterwards we all went to the pub and we had one hell of a time and then I had to sing would you believe it ?
7 In spite of being a reservoir , Carsfad provided excellent sport and we had great fun ; as long as I steered well clear of the dam .
8 The boy was cautioned — never went before the court because of his father being the ACC and this fellow went before the Chief Constable and he had ten years ' service at the time .
9 Whether he will be as successful again is open to doubt , because his own playing career was then an issue and he had substantial sympathy backing both inside and outside the committee and membership .
10 I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old .
11 Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things .
12 She looked like a child but she had exceptional bone structure .
13 And then we got about another half an hour and we had another call .
14 But anyway he saw this one stall and he had a look and they had three racks of them for ten ninety nine and then we found some others then , they were they were ten ninety nine but they were as thick as these other ones .
15 After his wife died , Howard again took to travelling ; but Cardington was now firmly established as his base and he had sufficient esteem in the eyes of his neighbours to be appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773 .
16 really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ?
17 Your reception was not courteous , but the Prince and I had other matters to discuss .
18 Bowler hat , little moustache and spats and when you came through the shed , my God , nobody slacked cos he had eyes everywhere and the Traffic Superintendent was , he was directly responsible to him erm then erm retired and erm then retired during the war and they had another fella come in from he came from away .
19 I was standing there talking to him , and over on the other side of Lime Street , the station side , there was another mackintosh shop and they had ten shilling notes pasted in the window .
20 The latter is an unusual work because it is about people who really lived at a particular period and who had particular relationships with each other .
21 She 'd she certainly did n't want the money cos she 'd got , her husband was a er you know she had er money from her husband and she had good wages at the you see with her being in charge er she had quite good wages .
22 The win took the Republic back up to second place in the Group behind Spain on goal difference but they had enough chances to close the six-goal gap on the pace-setters .
23 Kitson 's views were derided by the establishment but he had important influence in both radical and lunatic fringe circles .
24 Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that .
25 We had good education and we had good teachers ,
26 John did not have his brother Bobby 's ease on a platform but he had more integrity and honesty and he knew he had to do it .
27 He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice .
28 He was a dear father and he had two sons , doctors .
29 Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains .
30 Barium enema showed multiple polyps in the rectum and he had total panproctocolectomy with ileostomy .
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