Example sentences of "had an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hope fed her nosiness and kept her plodding beside Midnight , who 'd had an awkward job swinging the box on to his shoulder . |
| 2 | Firstly , the market has expanded even when the USA has had an external surplus . |
| 3 | It has always been thus in Ulster tennis which has had an amazing ability over the years to lose its talent to other activities . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've had an amazing vacation . |
| 5 | We 've had an amazing response to our search for a cure for the chronic skin complaint psoriasis . |
| 6 | We 've had an amazing response to our search for a cure for the chronic skin complaint psoriasis . |
| 7 | We 've had an amazing response to our search for a cure for the chronic skin complaint psoriasis . |
| 8 | We 've had an amazing response to our search for a cure for the chronic skin complaint psoriasis . |
| 9 | We 've had an amazing response to our search for a cure for the chronic skin complaint psoriasis . |
| 10 | We 've had an amazing response to our search for a cure for the chronic skin complaint psoriasis . |
| 11 | Yes , but particularly with reference to John Major , I think he 's had an amazing honeymoon and people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt as you were about his quote treatment of women unquote , and I suspect that the media have been particularly sympathetic and wearing kid gloves with him , and I find that the role of the media is to probe and to pry and |
| 12 | This view has had an influential impact on psychology , and although some might now consider such ideas outmoded , they continue to have an enduring effect on public perceptions of old age . |
| 13 | She could not have had an easy childhood . |
| 14 | ‘ She had not had an easy life , especially towards the end , but the impression she always gave was of courage . |
| 15 | ‘ You see , ’ he said kindly , ‘ it is one thing for someone like yourself who has always had an easy life — up to now , that is — to speak glibly about suffering women , and think that there is an easy way out — ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was never given the details , but Mum did remark that you had n't had an easy time . ’ |
| 17 | But they have not had an easy time of it , as much of the garden was originally covered by a concrete driveway , and the soil , though fertile had a layer of ironstone at about the depth you need to plan shrubs . |
| 18 | Ceauşescu admitted at the beginning of the 1980s that it was easier to change the economy and society than people themselves : ‘ As you can see , we have had an easy time constructing factories . |
| 19 | The 32-year-old French film director has just flown into London from LA , and has not had an easy time of it . |
| 20 | Take That have n't had an easy time of it breaking into the big time . |
| 21 | about the Olympic champion , he 'll be in Rome , he 'll be ready for the World Championships , I think he 's had an easy summer so far , but we 've got the likes of Sergio Lopez who 's just taken my European record away , there 's two Americans ; Kirl Stattel and Mike Barryman who 've just gone under the old World Record , so there 's perhaps a dozen of us that are really shouting and trying to get up to number one position . |
| 22 | It was as if the magic house in the wood had had an invisible fence set around it or — what did they call it ? — a shutting spell . |
| 23 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 24 | Detectives investigating the murder of a man who was killed at his engagement party say they 've had an encouraging response to their appeals for information . |
| 25 | ‘ The post of centre manager was advertised on May 20 and we have already had an encouraging response , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It 's another blow for the club which has had an appalling run of injuries to key players . |
| 27 | have you seen the one where he went , had to go to hospital cos he had the trouble had an irritable bowel irritable bowel |
| 28 | But a test called chorionic villus sampling is available to check the developing embryo in mothers who 've already had an affected child . |
| 29 | 7.2 Whalebone plaque dated to 1480 plus/minus 80 BP ( see p.122 ) ; however ; the whale could have had an apparent radiocarbon ‘ age ’ at death of several centuries ( MLA 1987.10–5.1 ; OxA-1164 ) . |
| 30 | The engine appears to be in good order having recently had an upper cylinder overhaul and new valves and has a very modest oil consumption . |