Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
| 2 | This nothing had two functions at least : assassin and whore . |
| 3 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have bad news , ’ said Jackson in a stony voice . |
| 5 | Doctor : ‘ I 'm afraid I have bad news for you Mr Bristow . |
| 6 | He stepped forward , said in a deep , smoky voice , ‘ Miss Swift , I 'm afraid I have bad news for you . |
| 7 | AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ . |
| 8 | The second concerns a love for God which is a gift and has nothing to do with learning ( c.5-7 ) ; this itself has two aspects covering that which is experienced sporadically by both actives and contemplatives , and a stabler devotion given after a long process of discipline in which the contemplative feels a " grete rest of bodie and of soule " ( 7.282a. – 81 ) . |
| 9 | Before the Second World War , virtually the only people able to practise archaeology on a full-time basis were those employed in museums , or the few who had sufficient wealth to be self-financing . |
| 10 | They are loathe to admit it , but those few who have single cells will weep into their pillows at night . |
| 11 | Some who had subsequent pregnancies had refused any kind of test , despite in some cases being aggressively pressurised by the hospital . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 13 | Just sometimes , this one had crimson nails , left over from the other , who wore a tight black skirt and a black jacket with padded shoulders over a pink silk shirt and was carefully made up with pink and brown eyeshadow , brushed blusher along the cheekbone and plummy lips . |
| 14 | This one had both legs and all his fingers , yet you still felt there was something missing . |
| 15 | This one has Ionic columns and a balustrade , and the speaker 's gallery seems to have been right . |
| 16 | Erm this one has four dimensions . |
| 17 | This one has adjustable straps for your comfort and a high-back padded headrest for your baby 's . |
| 18 | Unlike the previous passage , this one has several vocabulary items specific to ( originally ) black youth culture , for example bredder ( brother — in the community rather than biological sense ) , sound ( a large mobile disco — but see Gilroy 1987 : 164ff for a fuller description ) , spar ( friend ) , skirt and daughter ( both words for women ) , while other words like trod and check are not used in a Standard English way . |
| 19 | When the Folin is channelled through such a " funnel " as the south-north troughs of the Ticino and Reuss river valleys which form the " Gotthard Route " , it develops at times a violence that is awe-inspiring , and with such suddenness that alpine lakes such as this one have shore-based warning " flashers " at strategic points to let navigators know when a storm is imminent . |
| 20 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 21 | I admire what Gorbachev is attempting , but I am afraid he has great problems . |
| 22 | There are two Mach 3 devices — the Mach355 which has 96 input-output pins and 96 macrocells and the Mach 365 which has 128 input-output pins and 128 macrocells . |
| 23 | I had six I had five advertisers go in . |
| 24 | There are two genera represented in the abyssal North Atlantic : Asteronyx Muller & Troschel , 1842 which has spine-like mouth papillae , skin covered disk and 8–9 arm spines ; and Astrodia Verrill , 1884 which has block-like mouth papillae , scales on the disk and only 3 arm spines . |
| 25 | The same applies to Handout 7 which has two case histories with questions related to contingent punishers . |
| 26 | In her room Sally eventually managed to get out of her dress though her hands were trembling so much she had great difficulty with the zipper . |
| 27 | do you know how much she had personal money ? |
| 28 | 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on . |
| 29 | British exporters achieved all-time record exports partly because in 1991 we had all-time record low numbers of strikes and days lost through industrial action . |
| 30 | ‘ In early 1991 we had particular problems in achieving the levels of service on the Back Office system which would enable branches to meet their business needs . |