Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] 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 | At first some of them had a deceptive brightness , but their abominable quality soon revealed itself and decay rapidly set in . |
| 3 | None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In Chile Pinochet knew the power of photography ; each one of us had a secret service guy . |
| 6 | One of us had a wonderful night , but somebody else decided to disrupt it . |
| 7 | " Well at least it looks like you had a good doctor … " |
| 8 | You look like you had a good time . ’ |
| 9 | And the worrying thing is it all starts in the margin like it had a through school . |
| 10 | The generation above us had a hard time . |
| 11 | I can only declare that the face before me had a terrible beauty . |
| 12 | The items were n't greatly different on scores between they had a little graph . |
| 13 | Lupins for her had a peppery smell , bracken a smell of the sea . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the build-up to it had a familiar ring about it for Dave . |
| 16 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
| 17 | We used to do it almost as a social thing , a conventional Spanish gesture which for us had a special meaning — or at least it did for me , because I looked upon it as a seal on our friendship . |