Example sentences of "it had a [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a wide brim and a small ventilation hole in the top like a chimney . |
| 2 | It was a book without merit , ‘ hack-written and poorly illustrated … artistically worthless ’ ( ibid , p.34 ) , yet it had a deep significance and importance for one reader . |
| 3 | Made of fine violet chiffon , with a floaty , ankle-length skirt , it had a low-cut bodice and narrow shoe-string straps which were deliciously feminine but impossible to wear with a bra . |
| 4 | It had a scooped neckline and billowing sleeves gathered into the wrists . |
| 5 | It had a dolphin-shaped nose and a semi-automatic gearbox . |
| 6 | Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Menzies , was preparing to clear his desk for one last time and transfer to Sir Hugh 's enormous office overlooking Whitehall , an office so secret that it had a private door and staircase that could not be overlooked . |
| 7 | Anyhow I gave them some antibiotic powder to put in its drinking water just in case it had a mild infection and they went away happy and said they would tell their friends . ’ |
| 8 | It had a nice smell and my hair felt very silky and manageable after I 'd rinsed it . |
| 9 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 10 | It had a tiny foyer but a wide stage , proper lights and about two hundred seats . |
| 11 | It had a small belvedere and a vertical sundial under its pediment . |
| 12 | Over one-hundred feet long , with ninety-four teeth , it had a long tail and four webbed paws . |
| 13 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | and it had a big basement and everything on it . |
| 16 | Harvard could implement sweeping changes in its medical curriculum because it had a forceful dean and access to large grants to fund a very ambitious project . |
| 17 | It had a double wall and was almost impossible to escape from . ’ |
| 18 | Two storeys high , the walls made of wood , it had a tiled roof and one half had been refurbished . |
| 19 | Very pale with very large bubbles it had a harsh aftertaste and was generally quite disappointing . |
| 20 | The House controlled a large part of its own timetable , it had a corporate spirit and it could force information out of the government , the best example being the stream of diplomatic Blue Books in which the Foreign Office had to reveal the course of its negotiations with foreign powers almost as soon as the events had occurred . |
| 21 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 22 | It had a square neck and a deep square cut collar of the same colour as the lining . |
| 23 | Unlike the banned groups it had a large membership and was represented in several state legislatures . |
| 24 | It had a high neck and narrow sleeves too short for her , from which her chapped , bony wrists and her hands on which every knotted sinew and vein was visible protruded limply , as if they were stitched separately to the cuffs and not part of her arms at all . |
| 25 | It had a thatched roof and tall chimneys , and a green waterbutt at each corner . |
| 26 | I believe it had a thatched roof and it was such a bonny place , but it has sadly been derelict for years . |
| 27 | if it had a few twists and curls round it and little things like that and bits of gold plate on it I mean that they 'd go for it , but er , because it 's made for its purpose and do n't want it . |