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

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1 On Tuesday we had a first-class Budget , a Budget for recovery .
2 If York or London needed Bell or Ramsey they had a moral duty to move whether or not they wanted it .
3 MOTHER Teresa , a Scout jamboree and the Pope may seem an odd combination but for stamp designer Gyula Vasarhelyi they have a common bond they all feature on his latest stamp designs for Mongolia .
4 Short , playing black , dominated the game throughout , and at the end of the first session of play on Tuesday he had a clear advantage in an endgame with superior pieces and a very strong passed pawn .
5 But Prokofiev 's opera owes just as much of its enthralling power to the brilliance of its orchestral writing , and in Edward Downes it has a superlative master of the composer 's idiomatic style .
6 One day in January I had a free afternoon , as Adèle was ill , so I decided to walk to Hay , a village two miles away , to post a letter for the housekeeper .
7 In my garden at Wells I have a wonderful well — indeed , there are five of them and the city of Wells derives its name from the five springs in the palace grounds .
8 Dr you 've a new number five .
9 And Ellie you 'ave a 'appy birthday , yes ? ’
10 After touring the Cote Sauvage we had a perfect lunch in a crep erie : galettes — whole-wheat crepes made from sarazin ( black wheat ) — filled with ham or melted cheese and accompanied by foaming mugs of Breton cider ; then crisp lacy brown crepes with sugar and jam or chocolate sauce , which bore no resemblance to the limp pancakes served under that name in America .
11 There do n't appear to be any weak links , and in John Eales they have a phenomenal line-out talent .
12 Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate .
13 Like Scotland it has a traditional reliance on textiles and alcoholic drinks — 20,000 people work in Beaujolais production alone .
14 Absolutely because in York , in sorry , in Litchfield you have a confirmed greenbelt right up to the boundary , they were pursuing a local plan for the Li the city of Litchfield in isolation from the rest of the district , and there they were promoting seven hundred and fifty houses to be taken out of the greenbelt .
15 It 's being around Dodger She has a bad effect on me .
16 In Colin Harvey you had a twinkle-toed midfielder with a heart as big as a lion 's .
17 Because in Rotterdam you have a wide choice of specialists who can handle your entire physical distribution needs .
18 In Fleming they have a one-day match winner who can change the course of a game in a few overs , while the first three of Benson , Ward and Taylor are as dependable as any top three in the competition .
19 In the Atlantic it has a bathymetric distribution of 1410–1700 m .
20 When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene .
21 If there are more than four I go to the cupboard and nip cognacs till it 's all over for me , my dear ’ , or ‘ Last Sunday I had a fearful crise .
22 The dead children 's distraught grandfather Trevor said last night : ‘ Garry took us all out for a big family meal and then on Sunday we had a lovely picnic by a lake .
23 ‘ In Norman Lamont we have a quiet man , but do not underestimate his contribution to getting the country out of slump . ’
24 She said : ‘ I really love Africa it has a special place in my affections . ’
25 ‘ When I came to Ampeg I had a whole book full of design ideas — everything drawn out and ready to go — which I presented them with , and the amps that you 're seeing right now are almost exactly what was in that book .
26 Christ you had a tight shirt on last night , and that 's how I do , that 's how I just say to her .
27 N. You had a rough school background .
28 In West Ham we have a special brand of socialists .
29 In August we had a long weekend in the Lakes , with Rob , Joyce & Ewan which went well , & also a week in Telford with Richard which we thoroughly enjoyed .
30 On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time .
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