Example sentences of "and have a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides that she can hardly read and write and has a very dirty house and weird friends . |
| 2 | John always explains what he has done and has a very pleasant personality . |
| 3 | Their dominant leader is Mr Marco Pannella , a deep-bronzed , ever-smiling man known as l'altissimo , because he is very tall and has a very grand manner . |
| 4 | This paper is an evening paper and has a very high readership . |
| 5 | ‘ Mrs Allan is young and beautiful , and has a very sweet smile ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Feeling as if I was still asleep and having a very curious dream , I settled myself on the other side of the hearth from the stranger and took a sip of cocoa . |
| 8 | And they were very , very prepared to look at different department 's needs , and to have a very wide-ranging staff discussion on what the curriculum needs were , and to buy the books accordingly , and then to move on to how they should use them . |
| 9 | An account of a road accident written by someone who 's learning English , and had a very limited vocabulary on it . |
| 10 | He sang ‘ horribly out of tune ’ and had a very limited repertoire . |
| 11 | A coach part of 45 strong travelled to the Albert Hall and had a very pleasant evening watching the displays ; another group of 12 from the Melbourne class went to the afternoon performance . |
| 12 | By the autumn of 1976 , halfway through my pregnancy , I fell asleep one afternoon and had a very powerful dream . |
| 13 | He wore a black uniform with a black cap and had a very black face due to the coal dust which rose in clouds when he shovelled coal into the engine . |
| 14 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 15 | Malcolm Jubb and Jim Ridge of the Ribchester Museum acted as judges and had a very difficult task . |
| 16 | In July 1904 , he referred to Laura H. , a twelve-month-old child who had contracted measles , and had a very bad attack of broncho-pneumonia ( which was a common complication at that time ) . |
| 17 | Erm , I met Mr for the first time in the airport lounge at , erm er , er , Kennedy Airport erm , we discussed at great length and had a very interesting discussion erm , er , Pearsons erm , he accepted er , the job and h I , he has no obligation to me whatsoever and he is one of the er , members of the er , remuneration committee , and I actually take offence at what you 're saying . |
| 18 | He went back to your hotel and had a very interesting chat with the switchboard operator . |
| 19 | We have done several hotels all over the Caribbean and have a very good reputation . ’ |
| 20 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 21 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 22 | There is a lot of potential at Blackburn where they are building three new stands and have a very good team . ’ |
| 23 | You are just learning and have a very weak wrist . |
| 24 | They can be extremely irritant to the skin and have a very low degree of bio-degradability in purification plants . |
| 25 | These grasslands are in the centre of Australia and have a very low population density . |
| 26 | Lastly , two in the ‘ helpful-humorous ’ category : Laurie Graham 's The British Abroad , A Survival Guide ( Chatto & Windus , £8.99 ( with pithy observations on how badly we travel and how much better we could ; and Table Talk ( Coronet , £3.99 ) Derek Nimmo 's soufflé of after-dinner stories for winers and diners : pass the port , enjoy the anecdotes — and have a very happy Christmas . |
| 27 | The dams are likely to increase the incidence of water-borne diseases and have a very short life-span due to the high siltation rate caused by widespread soil erosion . |