Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie and Victoria each had a fat , foil-wrapped tangerine from an aromatic , tissue-padded cardboard box , which was being unpacked when they went in together for potatoes and cooking apples ; and the greengrocer lady , nodding her gold earrings , promised Victoria a solid triangle of muscatel raisins if she was a good girl and if the muscatel raisins did not sell . |
| 2 | The 40-year gap between the First and Second Empires had in no way diminished the ability of these people to perform their functions properly and with dignity , and it should not be thought that the Court of Napoleon III had a sort of second-hand quality about it . |
| 3 | The Halling factories each had a cooper 's shop employing a considerable number of men . |
| 4 | Wings Jeff Hurford and Scott MacKinnon each had a second-half try as Rugby Canada came storming back from 15–0 to 15–13 with outside-half Rob Ross , who provided a penalty and a conversion , just unable to land one more penalty for a long-awaited victory . |
| 5 | In the seventeenth century Louis XIV had a sculpture park at Versailles , but it surrounded his palace , and was more formally designed by Le Nôtre , who needed sculptures for the focal points of his avenues . |
| 6 | The matron , the house surgeon and the pupil each had a bedroom and a sitting room . |
| 7 | Nick Gaywood and Nick Folland each had a century and a half-century to his credit in those early matches . |
| 8 | Previous patterns of working , sets of beliefs about parents and their willingness and capacity to play a larger part in decisions about their children with special educational needs , professional uncertainty and paternalism all had a part to play in the process . |
| 9 | Perhaps most important is the need to recognise that a balance of forces was usually operating at any one time : pressure groups for change , politicians , civil servants and individual personalities all had a part to play . |
| 10 | And on the bowling side he admitted : ‘ Peter Such had a dream debut in helpful conditions in the first innings , but we then struggled to make inroads and our bowlers did not look penetrative in their second innings . |
| 11 | But in 1760 George II died , and his grandson George III had a dispute with his ministers about the King 's Speech to Parliament which revealed a new attitude . |
| 12 | There is no doubt of its instinct for splendour ; the Stewart kings all had a taste for lavish spending , and the ability to find the money to indulge it . |
| 13 | The 260 days of the sacred year each had a number from one to thirteen attached to it and there were also twenty different day-names , arranged so that the same combination of number and name only came round again 260 days later . |
| 14 | Solicitors A and D each had a client in the category ‘ business/commercial ’ which had more than two directors . |
| 15 | Sometimes she thought that she and William both had a need to make up for those lost ten years . |
| 16 | There are also examples in Kent , where Maidstone , Newington and Milton each had a host of dependent churches and chapels . |
| 17 | She got Tunisia all had a guess |
| 18 | The mother in family 5 had a brother with Duchenne muscular dystrophy . |
| 19 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 20 | The ‘ old rustic road ’ is Theobalds Road , west London , which ran to Theobalds , Hertfordshire , where James I had a hunting lodge . |