Example sentences of "had a [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birmingham Children 's Hospital has just had a new fish tank donated by the city 's Aqualand Pet Centre . |
| 2 | By anyone 's standards Dick Print has had a long innings . |
| 3 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 4 | Donald had had a good innings . |
| 5 | We 've had a good innings . |
| 6 | if you 've had a good innings . |
| 7 | Gatting in particular had had a good series , batting well and leading the team excellently ; with the first Test then drawn under his leadership , how different the rest of the summer might have been had he not invited the famous barmaid to his room . |
| 8 | DEC has not had a top sales executive since John Shields left the company in 1990 to take over the helm at doomed Prime Computer Inc . |
| 9 | Renault , who supply the £100,000 engines — changed every 400 miles — said : ‘ We 've already had a few people on to us saying they 're not going to buy our cars . |
| 10 | We 've had a few people coming on and saying they want it to stay there or they want to leave it there but it 's the trees that 's really annoying people . |
| 11 | Before I do that let me just digress and say one word about books , I 've had a few people ask me about books erm I gather that the distinguished Durham bookshops have sold out of my wonderful book but I gather that lorries are hurtling up motorways with |
| 12 | Harvard Securities had always had a high staff turnover . |
| 13 | I 've had a whole series of catastrophes |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm afraid Mummy 's under sed — She 's had a big Aspirin to help her relax . |
| 15 | MOVIE boss Barry ‘ Killer ’ Diller has had a staggering £15 million payoff from media tycoon Rupert Murdoch . |