Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] had [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | do you know how much she had personal money ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'm so glad you had this conversation with me while I 've been miked up and I 've got it all taped . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm glad we had that conversation . |
| 10 | He was sitting down then all of sudden he had this bottle of scotch and he told bring some whisky down . |
| 11 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 12 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |
| 13 | Yeah , but it was only really , we had that we had those soul D Js that , that , that were blowing them that was the problem . |
| 14 | I 'm sure we had another reading week . |
| 15 | In 1981 we had one challenge after another . |
| 16 | All these people and all this musical history of Manchester , all these people together and , although I 'm sure they had each other in mind , actually facing these people is very odd . |
| 17 | ‘ My heart misgave me when I saw his livery at Parfois , for Isambard is close and confidential with him , and sure they had some business between them that bodes us no good here in Wales . ’ |
| 18 | Girls of various shapes and sizes paraded in front of the boys while she told them the prices so that they would be sure they had enough money on them . |
| 19 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 20 | But in the early 1160s he had little success at bending the Welsh princes to his will , while one major invasion attempt in July 1165 was thwarted by atrocious summer weather . |
| 21 | There was then an open toughness about party tactics ; before the Buckingham Palace Conference in 1914 he had Central Office work out the electoral effects of excluding nine , six or four counties of Ulster from an independent Ireland the concern of a calculating pragmatist not of a bigot . |
| 22 | In 1838 they had 38 hand looms in use , as well as two power versions . |
| 23 | Saudi they had some sort of electronic torture chamber |
| 24 | Until he was fifteen he had private tuition which concentrated on classics and law , but in August 1803 he was able , with much difficulty , to break away to sea , entering the Royal Navy in 1803 . |
| 25 | In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post . |
| 26 | 15 She had good reason to suspect that it would , for long before the 1924 show opened , she had decided to try to convince the critics to change their ideas about her work by changing the nature of what she exhibited . |
| 27 | The first was built in 1840 and then around 1900 they had more money and built a gallery and a huge house in front of it . ’ |
| 28 | Er no , I had one er I put the phone down from you which was er it was very deflating I had one pervert can I call him that came o |
| 29 | In each round I had good lane draws and ran comfortably . |
| 30 | Eighty four we had this extension put up . |