Example sentences of "to have a big [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they said he never said much to them , well he perhaps did n't , he would n't do because he was like that you see , but pra before interviewing him on television , er of course the War came and India was given freedom , and er there used to be you know the Sweet people who used to have a big factory on Road , was a very famous sweet in them days , I do n't think they are now , but was a very good sweet firm , and they 'd got a daughter cos she was in the , during the War the Anglo-Soviet Friendship er she was one of the course they 'd got hundreds but she was one . |
| 2 | And , and because of this and my old hits , er I am able to have a big following , and to perform |
| 3 | ‘ We'se goin' to have a big Carol Service in the church on Christmas Eve . |
| 4 | it would , you 've got to have a big spread really have n't ya ? |
| 5 | It 's nice to have a big bathroom |
| 6 | to have a big bathroom . |
| 7 | ‘ He is determined to have a big season and hopes to break into the Great Britain squad for the World Cup final against Australia in October , ’ added Larder . |
| 8 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 9 | ‘ Curry is great value and it is bound to have a big appeal for MPs because we are so often in a hurry . ’ |
| 10 | It can not be much fun to have a big crowd turn against you when you have come up with the top score of the day , inspired your team , and done your best to uphold the game 's standards of decency and chivalry . |
| 11 | I know , but years ago you always used to have a big tea and supper |
| 12 | ‘ Because they want everybody to have a Big Daddy with his leather belt keeping 'em in order — less for them to do , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Ya I was I 've been thinking of trying to have a big delivery of something . |
| 14 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 15 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 16 | Cos , they sold out the , that 's all now and I think came from Yarmouth , they used , they used to have a big place at Yarmouth and we came through the other week and er I see their sheds are nearly all empty now , there . |
| 17 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 18 | This means that to have a big impact , benefits would have to be cut in real terms — undercutting inflation — by up to four per cent . |
| 19 | The differential was too small to have a big impact , and , when it was publicised at all , was accompanied by assurances that the cost would be cancelled out by the lower summer charge . |
| 20 | Well I I want to have a big picture of England on the wall on which I can start to tick off bits as we get them . |
| 21 | It was to have a big effect on my whole life . |
| 22 | And to have a big mouth to project . |
| 23 | A man like Mr Harker was bound to have a big house . |
| 24 | Many prep schools use small classes as their trump card in their marketing campaigns rightly claiming that small classes allow each child to have a big slice of teacher time . |
| 25 | A brave risk-taker , who is young enough to have a big future . |
| 26 | You 're going to have a big party tomorrow . ’ |
| 27 | I end up wanting to look thinner ; I 'd like to have a big nose because I am fed up with people telling me mine is ‘ cute' ; I 'd like to have naturally dark eyebrows and eyelashes , so I would n't look like a heroin addict without any make-up on ; straighter teeth , no spots and a better haircut . |