Example sentences of "[noun] had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their circumstances had changed : Mr Singh had a full-time job , they had taken a big step and purchased their council house and Mrs Singh now felt that she needed permanent work herself . |
| 2 | ‘ Wait till you have a bloody beard and all , ’ Hoomey had sympathized with him on occasion , for Mr Singh had a large beard secured under his turban . |
| 3 | Interestingly , religion had a considerable influence on herbal use in cookery , since the church authorities decreed the times when meat should be eaten , when fish only was the rule , and when there were fast days or fasting weeks . |
| 4 | Many girls spoke to me of their feelings that their mother 's own self-image had a strong effect on them . |
| 5 | Nellie had a pleasant bedroom all to herself . |
| 6 | The Management of AIB Bank and the Irish Bank Officials ' Association had a recent meeting regarding the future plans of the Bank . |
| 7 | LORD WRIGHT : I think the jury should be directed by the judge that the respondent Association had a legal right to put the person 's name on the stop list , so long as they did so in order to promote the trade interests of the Association and its members and not with intent to injure , and so long as the money , fine or penalty demanded was reasonable and not extortionate . |
| 8 | The Association had a good press . |
| 9 | The association had a tidy office in the busy Avenida del Sol . |
| 10 | Strabane 's Lynn McCool had a 12 foot putt to give herself and Eileen Rose Power victory over Julie Hall and Kirsty Speak but it stopped on the lip and the match was halved . |
| 11 | Currencies had a quiet day , with sterling closing just under half a pfennig lower at Dm2.3835 and a tenth of a cent down at $1.4330 . |
| 12 | The negotiators immediately ran into a problem : no-one on Louis 's and Charles 's side had a thorough knowledge of the whole " empire " ( totius imperii ) . |
| 13 | If the square on the side had a square perimeter of 16m what would be the length of each side ? |
| 14 | IF ONLY one side had a clear lead , what parties there would be : parties to welcome home John Major , parties to see off the blasted yoke of Tory rule , parties for the sake of parties . |
| 15 | Is it , it 's like a big eye , and it was black one side and white the other side and the black side had a white pupil and the white the other side had a black one |
| 16 | Jeff had a small job to do on the boat . |
| 17 | Jeff had a hard time with me . |
| 18 | It has to be remembered that prior to the arrival of European traders of any kind the African continent had a large number of flourishing economies and civilizations which had food surpluses , extensive trade networks , cities , complex technologies and craft products , and elaborate political systems ( Davidson , 1974 , pp. 67–174 ) . |
| 19 | The Royal Artillery had a regimental button . |
| 20 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 21 | in and out of Kuwait they never have to their only restrictions at any time , never , even if Kuwait had a financial crisis because of the crash of its stock market one expected that people might move their capital outside the country because of it , but there was no restrictions , no control , everybody was free , you could walk in and out of the country |
| 22 | The United Provinces had a Scottish brigade in their service until the last years of the century . |
| 23 | Neil had a guilty conscience and Jessica had known it . |
| 24 | She was wearing her afternoon uniform and Matey thought that she looked charming in it ; it was not surprising , after all , that Dr Neil had a soft spot for her . |
| 25 | The stroke had a devastating effect on Stanley 's life . |
| 26 | ’ These lines were inspired by the belief that Thomas Jefferson had a private harem of black concubines ( Aspasia was the beautiful and celebrated mistress of Pericles , ruler of Athens c. 440 BC ) . |
| 27 | In foreign policy the Carter administration had a mixed record . |
| 28 | The bedroom had a sloping ceiling and was very simply furnished ; a double bed covered with a white quilt , a bow fronted chest of drawers and the armchair in which the old man sat . |
| 29 | And Mr Samson had a lucky escape in 1990 when a van ploughed into the side of his car . |
| 30 | As stated previously , Dunning and colleagues ( 1984 ) show how football crowd violence had a low level of incidence in the post-war years , but rose in frequency from the mid-sixties on . |