Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a [adv] large [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 2 | The other reason was in the late eighties and early nineties we had a very large expenditure programme indeed in one year amounting to one hundred million pounds now of that are now becoming fully depreciated and falling out of the charge |
| 3 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 4 | They had a very large breakfast together . |
| 5 | They had a very large number of Scots sergeants and they all seemed to be very close . |
| 6 | It has also been claimed recently that Proconsul lacked a tail , as do extant hominoids , and that it had a relatively larger brain than comparably sized monkeys ( Box 2 ) , and there is now little doubt that Proconsul is phylogenetically linked with the Hominoidea . |
| 7 | But he had a very large estate , and in the administration of it he needed the support of the king and his courts . |
| 8 | Tony 's cameras were in three largish bags and each of us had a very large rucsac . |