Example sentences of "[noun] she had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hell , it was n't her fault she had a scoundrel for a grandson . |
| 2 | Mrs Sugar used to curl her hair with rags and take snuff , and every Saturday she had a bet on the horses . |
| 3 | Mrs Sugar used to curl her hair with rags and take snuff , and every Saturday she had a bet on the horses . |
| 4 | On a particularly difficult issue she had a habit of canvassing everyone privately , except the person directly involved , so that when the matter was finally aired she would already be in command of all views . |
| 5 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 6 | We had that well she 's claiming for loss of earnings , think she 's broke a leg , we do n't know were n't allowed to take a photo bike she had a brand new . |
| 7 | She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative . |
| 8 | Yet Batty noticed that in spite of her reserve she had a way of inspiring people to do things for her . |
| 9 | Late that afternoon she had a telephone call from Joe Martin , just back from a trip to New York . |
| 10 | Inside four minutes she had a doctor , a plain van and a rendezvous . |
| 11 | In the Post Office while I was trying to phone Prague , Irena was getting free phone calls in exchange for correcting a German text for the manager , and when we went to a bookshop she had a friend who sold her books at half price . |
| 12 | Just for a moment she had a vision of a brilliant new line of clothes called Uglies . |
| 13 | And at this moment she had a finger threading the maze of the register , and one hand already vaguely gesturing towards the key-board . |
| 14 | For a moment she had a day-dream . |
| 15 | Some days she had a fever and spoke very fast . |
| 16 | I advised going on to Lachesis LM2 and after 3 weeks she had a return of flushes . |
| 17 | Denied by Mrs she had a letter . |
| 18 | Over the top she had a jacket of the palest blue , and a brooch of seed pearls like a bunch of grapes . |
| 19 | One day she had a husband and three children , the next , no one . |
| 20 | But on one occasion she had a visitor , to whom she gave his portion , packing some egg sandwiches in the pudding basin and covering it as usual . |
| 21 | The fact that as a teenager she had a series of complicated operations for a badly broken leg does not seem to have affected her at all . |
| 22 | Last month she had a job as a secretary with a company called Office Cleaning Services in Cheltenham . |
| 23 | But now it 's gone down , but there 's no ulcer she had a laparotomy on Friday the tube . |
| 24 | Later during the morning she had a lung scan which did not reveal any abscess but showed a picture which was consistent with pneumonia . |
| 25 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 26 | In this state she had a vision of Jesus , about whom she knew nothing . |
| 27 | She was going to bed she had a paper under her arm and her and her bag and she 's off and she got up out of , so my mum said right I 'm going now sort of , goodnight ! |
| 28 | Shortly after her rescue she had a foal , and her owner decided to put the mare back in foal again . |
| 29 | In the end she had a divorce because she could n't stand it . |
| 30 | To that end she had a place at Norwich City College to read for a B A in hospitality management subject to achieving the right grades in her A levels and achieving O level maths or its equivalent . |