Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] had [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 | AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some who had subsequent pregnancies had refused any kind of test , despite in some cases being aggressively pressurised by the hospital . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This one had both legs and all his fingers , yet you still felt there was something missing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had six I had five advertisers go in . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | do you know how much she had personal money ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | As such it had serious defects : like all other Spanish parties , the Masons were distinguished by their domestic divisions . |
| 17 | At the end of the " thirties she had other things on her mind besides horses and cooking , dogs , bantams , geese and Love Eternal . |
| 18 | In 13 cases liver function tests improved or remained static from the time of diagnosis , and have remained normal in two of those still alive who had normal values at diagnosis . |
| 19 | A local craft shop took them and after that she had regular orders for them from outlets further afield . |
| 20 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 21 | Lucky I had some biscuits in So whether it was er because my period started on Friday |
| 22 | I 'm so glad you had this conversation with me while I 've been miked up and I 've got it all taped . |
| 23 | ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’ |
| 24 | I was the only one of the three who had any confidence in Burmese , and so was able to be bilingual in teaching and in giving notes . |
| 25 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 26 | Betsy was lucky she had many friends who relished her company by Old Father Thames , where they all congregated when evening came round , cuddling in clusters all over the ground . |
| 27 | I 'm glad we had that conversation . |
| 28 | It was lucky we had enough trees to hide it in . " |
| 29 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 30 | Sir Robert Morier , perhaps the most successful British diplomat of the later nineteenth century , was partly French : in 1870 he had six cousins fighting in the French army . |