Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sadly , Rose suffered a major setback one day , when she had a grand mal epileptic fit .
2 She had a Long Island accent , though she came from Fresno .
3 ‘ I remember you had a lovely Pembroke table — I coveted that . ’
4 They all stayed over and we had a superb Sunday lunch at the Garden House Hotel , lazing around until late afternoon when we went our separate ways .
5 Mr. Speaker , Sir , when we had a Greater London Council , the noise of lorries in London was controlled .
6 Except for the more delicate crabs , they had a provincial Sunday lunch quality .
7 It had a 6.8 Chrysler engine , an aluminium body , and he drove it very fast .
8 Theodora noticed he had a slight Norfolk accent and no trace of nervousness or pomposity .
9 Hodgkiss 's manner displeased Frederica ; he had a mannered Oxford voice , elided words , and used the pronoun " one " frequently .
10 He had a huge Beethoven head of black curls , a brown face scorched with wrinkles by an unrelenting sun , small dark eyes and a smile like a slice of water melon , which showed a lot of gold fillings .
11 He had a crappy Hemworth guitar and stuck white sticky paper all over it so it would look
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