Example sentences of "had a big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 2 | They had a big hit around the time and the shop was always full of these kids who were really into that gay , shallow disco — stuff like ‘ The Hustle ’ . |
| 3 | they reckon he had a big dick did n't he ? |
| 4 | It had a big name in athletics and some of our boys went on to be students there , so the reputation of Henry Compton was high in the field of sport . |
| 5 | He had a big smile on his face . |
| 6 | I still had tears in my eyes , but I had a big smile on my face too . |
| 7 | They must have been renewed somewhere about the erm I would say roughly round about nineteen twenty seven , twenty eight and that 's been renewed as lock gates , cos they took 'em out and they had a big crane come from Rotterdam to lift them up and er things do now well that 's surprising what they do do now . |
| 8 | Niki had a big cushion on the third-place car , eased off and placed second . |
| 9 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 10 | up our road and very first house , number one , he had a big bit of garden |
| 11 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
| 12 | Gina and Nigel had a big scene after the feminist publication came out . |
| 13 | If McQuaid had a big order to fill he might n't come till after dark . |
| 14 | It was n't my fault , had a big breakfast . |
| 15 | and it had a big basement and everything on it . |
| 16 | He had a big love affair with France and tried to buy his way into political circles . ’ |
| 17 | I had a big row with Boz about what happened . |
| 18 | Right , okay , the other thing I was going to ask about we , we had a big promotion of Amnesty by The Body Shop , last year , er and we noticed that Our Price were also going to do promotion of Amnesty and we asked , wonder if we look into local shops and see what they could find out and what was going on , did you find anything ? |
| 19 | It had a big crew and a full commercial load — wax and mastic and wormwood seed , six bales of carpets and eighty baskets of sulphur , fifty bundles of silk and five hundred oxhides , two hundred barrels of saltpetre and a hundred bales of Syrian soda . |
| 20 | I remember the one one of the ladies , er she was dressed in erm in green and she had a big bow . |
| 21 | And a big hat and she had a big bow she looked you know . |
| 22 | Yes I mean , I think that we had a big discussion at the last area committee on the scheme and the problem was of course that the detailed plans er , for the consultation erm to the , I 'm at , I 'm a bit worried that at this late stage there 's this new idea of of building on the green wedge at the back and I would n't like to think that the scheme should be delayed the important thing , it seems to me , is that it should press ahead and |
| 23 | false at first and then we had a big discussion about it . |
| 24 | My mother had a big spread waiting for us that evening When we got cleared up , and then it was time to report to the UDR base for patrol duty . |
| 25 | Chopper Harris , on the other hand , was a dullard who had a big heart where his friends were concerned , and it was he who often stood cups of tea or a pint for his friends . |
| 26 | This time they had a big Rottweiler with them . |
| 27 | I must say I had a big shock when I married Nick . |
| 28 | Back home in Hamilton Su'a scored club centuries and had a big reputation as a hitter , which he justified to a wider audience by hitting 30 of his 36 not out in boundaries , once despatching Tufnell over midwicket into the stand . |
| 29 | So what , she had a big hole ? |
| 30 | Cos she had a big hole like that and holes there ! |