Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps in the matter of excitement Davis and Baker between them had a special way of making the blood dance , but ( listen to the Overture , for instance ) Nelson achieves a fine clarity of texture and , even more than Davis , he makes the phrases ‘ speak ’ . |
| 2 | Their attack focused on St Margaret 's School in Cricklewood , where they found ten refugee girls , three of whom had a religious background . |
| 3 | It was these brilliant architectural triumphs which so much impressed foreign visitors , many of whom had a professional interest and who came to learn as well as admire . |
| 4 | The master who went abroad had three servants , each of whom had a certain amount of ability . |
| 5 | As a further example , the chunk could be used by two users , one of whom had a small default font , and the other a large : again the size of each Title would adapt accordingly . |
| 6 | Commercially available expert system shells have been used since most of the expert systems have been developed by engineering tradesmen , few of whom had a strong computing background . |
| 7 | Jane was thirty-three and had two children , one of whom had a slight speech defect which made Jane very interested in speech therapy . |
| 8 | Accompanying these kids were what appeared to be three extravagant South American transvestites in dresses , rouge and lipstick , one of whom had a used tampon on a piece of string around her neck . |
| 9 | There were , in fact , many Irish Americans in United Motors at high management levels , all of whom had a nostalgic affection for the ‘ auld counthrie ’ , and indeed for anything Irish ; but that was because most of them had never actually been there . |
| 10 | At first some of them had a deceptive brightness , but their abominable quality soon revealed itself and decay rapidly set in . |
| 11 | None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power . |
| 12 | Each of them had a ten-to twelve-column-inch splash on the front page , with a picture of Dr. Briant standing glowering at the desk in the board room , and each of them carried leaders about Briant and his project . |
| 13 | In most years there were between thirty-three and thirty-five , only eleven of which had a continuous existence over the whole period . |
| 14 | Occasionally their exact function is uncertain , as in the case of the three structures in Normangate Field , Water Newton , one of which had a central posthole and was originally floored with a red and white tessellated floor . |
| 15 | The Parler family was an architectural one , the members of which had a great deal of influence on Gothic architecture both in Czechoslovakia and further afield to Vienna and Milan . |
| 16 | Some woman journalist friend of his had a handicapped daughter and found she was entitled to virtually no help looking after her , whereas if she fostered someone else 's kid she got any number of handouts . |
| 17 | In Chile Pinochet knew the power of photography ; each one of us had a secret service guy . |
| 18 | One of us had a wonderful night , but somebody else decided to disrupt it . |
| 19 | " Well at least it looks like you had a good doctor … " |
| 20 | You look like you had a good time . ’ |
| 21 | And the worrying thing is it all starts in the margin like it had a through school . |
| 22 | somebody else that er we were doing a course with who had a tremendous skill with high |
| 23 | The generation above us had a hard time . |
| 24 | I can only declare that the face before me had a terrible beauty . |
| 25 | The items were n't greatly different on scores between they had a little graph . |
| 26 | Lupins for her had a peppery smell , bracken a smell of the sea . |
| 27 | For example I can remember erm hearing that erm Spanish some Spanish oran orange growers who grow their oranges under tunnels , er were getting very depressed because of the erm chemicals they were spraying on them had a harmful effect on their nervous systems . |
| 28 | But the build-up to it had a familiar ring about it for Dave . |
| 29 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
| 30 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |