Example sentences of "[pron] had a large [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I carried out stone from the cave , and after many days ' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill . |
| 2 | I had a large tumour on my right kidney , it would certainly need an operation . |
| 3 | Eventually the three of us were alone again , and I remembered that I had a large loft . |
| 4 | Bristol , which had a large increase in students last year , like Oxford and Cambridge , did not seek this year to exceed its own previously announced planned expansion . |
| 5 | The four acute hospitals studied also varied in the extent to which they were dependent on business from their own district , from 20 per cent in a teaching hospital which had a large range of supraregional specialities and dealt with over 120 districts , to over 90 per cent in a rural district general hospital . |
| 6 | The bicycle was obviously shaking the old order to the roots , and with its customary irreverence the socialist Clarion ( 30 July 1898 ) — which had a large stake in the matter , because of the enormously popular Clarion Cycling Clubs — wondered ‘ how it is no one has written a cycling melodrama , with a hero and a heroine and a villain on wheels ’ . |
| 7 | Wycliffe was received in the lounge , which had a large picture-window looking out to sea . |
| 8 | It was important to have transport , mobility , He reserved two rooms at the luxurious hotel which had a large reception hall and modern curving staircases leading to the first floor . |
| 9 | The provision of this form of care has its origins in the pre-war public hospitals , which had a large number of patients with chronic health care problems . |
| 10 | He himself had a large collection of artistic objects of which he was very proud . |
| 11 | On her right hand she had a large pile of blanks . |
| 12 | She rubbed her arm , where she had a large bruise above the elbow . |
| 13 | The study shows that men who had a small head circumference or were thin at birth , or both , had higher rates of cardiovascular death than those who had a large head circumference or were fat . |
| 14 | It was once won by an archer who had a large family of young children who were fascinated by the spoon , which has a silver chain with a hook at the end in the form of a swan 's head and neck . |
| 15 | It was Mr Boldwood , who had a large farm in Weatherbury . |
| 16 | He tried to think of a wife who had a larger car than her husband 's and he could n't think of one . |
| 17 | If we had a larger sample , it would be easier to venture a firm opinion . ’ |
| 18 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 19 | We had a large factory at Bournville employing about ten thousand people and there were a great many incentive payment schemes , so that became my job . |
| 20 | ‘ We had a large colony of Nazis living in the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | We had a large table and Dad would lay them out in rows to cool , tuck their heads under their wings and put pieces of heather in between them . |
| 22 | In the year we had a large number of retirements ; Danny Davies , Gwyn Bowen , Dudley Powell and Harry Nelson from Ffos Las ; George Collis , Ritchie Williams and Vernon Williams from Gilfach Iago and John Kilkenny from Potatopot . |
| 23 | We had a large car — a Humber , with leopardskin seat covers . |
| 24 | There were more Crips and they had a larger share of the market in illegal drugs . |
| 25 | But the specific forms of hooliganism are new ; football crowds were not segregated by age before the 1960s ; youth did not congregate around parts of football clubs as their territory — they had a larger territory and community which they shared with their older male relatives . |
| 26 | But the specific forms of hooliganism are new ; football crowds were not segregated by age before the 1960s ; youth did not congregate around parts of football clubs as their territory — they had a larger territory and community which they shared with their older male relatives . |
| 27 | They had a large box of miscellaneous bit and pieces of sticky tape and straws and wood and drawing pins and all sorts of things , and we essentially just left them for two weeks to do this — and they came up with some superb ideas . |
| 28 | It was called the Eel and Boot and it had a large sign outside with a welly covered in slime and an even slimier serpentine creature peering irritably out of the top of it like Ridley Scott 's alien in one of its earlier manifestations . |
| 29 | On the other hand it had a large compensation . |
| 30 | It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) . |