Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] a large [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
| 2 | Just in front of me I had seen a large shell-crater , an old one . |
| 3 | I remember that he liked one in celebration of wool ; another was of everything brown or gray , for which I had arranged a large collection of natural objects , of woven and blockprinted textiles , pots , and beautiful bowls and boxes made of wood . |
| 4 | As a present I had received a large book of complex Legion history written in difficult French . |
| 5 | I 've got a large carrying case for an electronic organ keyboard er I want to sell , it 's it 'll take a keyboard erm forty one inches long by forty inches wide and four and a half inches deep and it 's all sort of shaped inside with the lining to the shape of the keyboard and nice strong box . |
| 6 | Suppose , for example , that up until today I have observed a large number of ravens under a wide variety of circumstances and have observed all of them to have been black and that , on that basis , I conclude , ‘ All ravens are black ’ . |
| 7 | Having said that , I 've always known that if I want to express myself I have to have a large vocabulary on the guitar . |
| 8 | Fortunately , she has saved a large deposit to put down on a flat so she only has to borrow £45,000 . |
| 9 | that 's the only problem , if you 've got a large family and you 've had a well paid job and then you loose it |
| 10 | To find that you 've left a large space for a larege number of flowers none of which turn up . |
| 11 | She had prepared a large stew , or thick soup , her speciality , brought to perfection in years of communal living . |
| 12 | On the wall outside she had fixed a large notice which clearly indicated that here was the shop , and for someone to miss it they would need to be exceedingly short-sighted — or dozy . |
| 13 | She had found a large blanket , which she placed in the back of her car , in the garage . |
| 14 | For you have blown a large breach in the walls of my existence . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You have left a large void in my Heart , ’ Coleridge wrote in November . |
| 16 | and in Avon we 've got erm we 've got a large turn over of staff |
| 17 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |
| 18 | Here we have examined a large group of subjects without symptoms covering a broad age range and in whom the H pylori state was known . |
| 19 | One is the performance aspect because every time we need to access the relational database across the network we have to send a large piece of transactional logic , a piece of S Q L code , across the network , and that could be significant in size . |
| 20 | Well that 's one the other reason , of course we have got a large number of chur , very small churches in fact , looking at our mai , ministry figures nineteen ninety there were thirty churches that did n't pay anything to the maintenance and a lot of these , I think , maybe |
| 21 | Well , at certain times we have had a large number of Bengali patients . |
| 22 | We we have acquired a large chunk of the the yes . |
| 23 | And if they 've got a large squad , so do we . |
| 24 | There they had joined a large group of sect heavies , some of whom were armed . |
| 25 | They had inherited a large number of hire schemes , and sometimes ( particularly for cookers in working class areas ) found it economic to continue these . |
| 26 | It was not until the next morning that the local council realised they had to repair a large hole in the middle of the square . |
| 27 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 28 | They have bought a large drawing room flat in Edin . |
| 29 | He says that they have to police a large area , with officers spread thinly . |
| 30 | Insiders say he has transplanted a large tract of greenery into the leaderene 's speech , which will dwell on her commitment to saving the world from global warming . |