Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm 18 years ' old and we have two children . |
2 | Woodlice breed well in captivity if their surroundings are kept damp and they have enough food . |
3 | We know these designs have been extremely popular and we have good news for owners of Brother electronic machines with disc drive as Iris has now produced the whole series of 12 designs on disc for your machines . |
4 | I was never popular and I had few friends , but such friendships as I made were mostly lasting . |
5 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
6 | These two cases look very different but they have many aspects in common . |
7 | James right like Mr right he did n't know right and we have this sort of erm water fountain and he was running towards it and he , and he filled up his mouth with it and he was spitting it everywhere and we were all sort of getting out the way and Mr told him if you do n't want to drink it then leave it alone and he sort of turned and walked away . |
8 | ‘ Often , operatives who are self-taught or who have minimal instruction will use the equipment for a very limited range of tasks , never realising its full potential . |
9 | The hypothesis about the importance of making connections between different strategies will be extended to the learning of mathematics , and also to the teaching of children whose intelligence is normal but who have specific difficulties with reading and with mathematics , the hypothesis being that these children fail because they do not make a strong enough connection between different strategies . |
10 | The subjects in one of the trials referred to were patients in whom pain control was inadequate or who had appreciable side effects , which is why the cerebrospinal fluid was accessed . |
11 | Carter 's intentions were , in many ways , laudable and he had some successes , notably in bringing an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty in 1978 . |
12 | But if you want to play things that sound good and you have those limitations , then often you have to resort to things that other people would n't do . |
13 | Fagg fitted in : his eyesight was very poor and he had flat feet . |
14 | I take the squad to Holland every year and that is something I would like to see continued but I have other ideas which it may not be possible to put into practice . |
15 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
16 | But some people do need to exercise constraint : diabetics , people with high blood pressure , those who are very overweight or who have high blood cholesterol , those who binge if a craving is indulged . |
17 | And we we do try to keep them busy and we have monthly parties and erm |
18 | From time to time a shell or two falls short and we have several casualties . ’ |
19 | They were beautiful and she had two others did n't she ? |
20 | ‘ But the League is vitally important and we have eight games left to sort it out . |
21 | There are times , of course , when all goes well and we actually enjoy it , but at other times the cost seems too heavy and we have few people we can share the job with or who can understand . |
22 | Its current revenue budget is £317 million gross and it has 15,000 staff of which 8,000 are teachers . |
23 | And a West Midlands Police spokesman said : ‘ Our forensic investigation is ongoing and we have some way to go . ’ |
24 | It has accumulated a pile of volcanic material 10km thick and it has five times the volume of Hawaii in spite of a long-term rate of volcanic activity less than one-sixth as high . |
25 | The drawbacks of this style used alone are that it can be slow and you have less control over your objective . |
26 | Downstairs in the hall , midnight struck , so that her own clock had been slow and she had seven hours and three minutes before morning and the sound of the milk bottles on the step , of Eleanor 's waking movements . |
27 | Maggie felt annoyed but she had more sense than to argue . |
28 | And they are erm a very go ahead company ; they 're young and they have this maverick style , which they think we can erm come into quite reasonably well . |
29 | pat patio on the , on the , erm Virgin Square or somebody or other and they have all flamenco dances ooh , ooh all different sorts all different groups |
30 | My brother and I are very close and I have faint memories of visiting him , when he was a day old , in hospital . |