Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff had a hard time with me . |
| 2 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 3 | She was wearing her afternoon uniform and Matey thought that she looked charming in it ; it was not surprising , after all , that Dr Neil had a soft spot for her . |
| 4 | ’ These lines were inspired by the belief that Thomas Jefferson had a private harem of black concubines ( Aspasia was the beautiful and celebrated mistress of Pericles , ruler of Athens c. 440 BC ) . |
| 5 | And Mr Samson had a lucky escape in 1990 when a van ploughed into the side of his car . |
| 6 | But Adams had the final word with a last-minute try . |
| 7 | But former Blueman David McCallan had the last laugh on Linfield with a brilliant winner four minutes from time to put Bangor into the Bass Irish Cup semi-finals for the first time in 25 years . |
| 8 | Well before the revolution , Valentin Ceauşescu had a good reputation among Romanians — unlike his younger brother and sister . |
| 9 | Wilson and Isabella Johnstone had an illegitimate son in 1842 . |
| 10 | And Parliament Hill had a fine view of London , even on a day of louring cloud . |
| 11 | Mr Yanagitani had a wide following among ambitious younger employees , who fear they have ruined their prospects by backing the wrong horse . |
| 12 | He said that the republican leaders had discussed at the meeting financial and other support for Gorbachev " in the period after his resignation " , and he and Gorbachev had a long meeting on Dec. 23 to discuss transition arrangements . |
| 13 | LANCIA 'S new 16-valve Integrale had a disastrous debut at the San Remo Rally yesterday . |
| 14 | Sir Gregory had a painful discussion with his wife over how they should react to Pascoe 's snub , in which Lady Roscarrock gave vent to her outrage saying that they had every right to keep both Tristram and Jennifer in custody indefinitely ; but Sir Gregory wanted the whole business settled and finished with , so after a lengthy wrangle he swallowed the family pride and went over to Hill House . |
| 15 | The British assessment was that the United States had no long-term interest in Korea and had no scheme to extend sufficient economic or military aid to render a south Korean administration viable : ‘ It is probably therefore the American intention to pull out herself , as soon as she has found a face-saving formula for doing so . ’ |
| 16 | The United States had a clean sweep in the 100 metres with Lewis being followed home by Calvin Smith and Emmit King , but Lewis was totally predominant , winning by almost two metres . |
| 17 | All four informants confirmed that the United States had the Iranian Embassy in Beirut under electronic surveillance prior to the disaster . |
| 18 | Now Kennedy had a dilemma although Cuba was in the Caribbean , and although the United States had the biggest navy in the world , and the biggest airforce and was easily able to exterminate Cuba if it wa if it wished to , it was vulnerable , however , in other areas , in particular it was vulnerable in Berlin and it was vulnerable in Indo-China . |
| 19 | Now Kennedy had a dilemma although Cuba was in the Caribbean , and although the United States had the biggest navy in the world , and the biggest airforce and was easily able to exterminate Cuba if it wa if it wished to , it was vulnerable , however , in other areas , in particular it was vulnerable in Berlin and it was vulnerable in Indo-China . |
| 20 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | After a particularly good dinner he had once dreamt that Eleanor had a younger sister of that age . |
| 23 | LARNE had a controversial decision by referee Leslie Irvine in the dying minutes to thank for keeping their Cup hopes alive . |
| 24 | They received the news silently , unwilling to concede that Woolley had a good reason for doing anything . |
| 25 | Roach had no previous record of violence and was mentally retarded . |
| 26 | Uganda had the highest incidence of AIDS cases proportional to its population . |
| 27 | Subsequently , a serious accident at the company 's water-theme park in Surrey had a detrimental effect on its public profile . |
| 28 | From the gateway of the quarry Grimma had a good view of the road all the way to the airport . |
| 29 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 30 | It sounded logical enough , yet Edward had an uncanny sense of foreboding . |