Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a miracle I remembered his number , which was an easy one , and by another Toby had four pennies . |
| 2 | By 1972 Walton had 64 stores , with sales of $125 million per annum , and thereafter growth was exponential : by 1991 there were more than 1,700 , with annual sales approaching $44 billion . |
| 3 | In its hey-day Snaith had twelve pubs and four tailors , and although there is no tailor and the pubs are reduced to five , it is still a busy little shopping centre . |
| 4 | 2 Sadie had 137 shells in her collection . |
| 5 | Of this Estabrook had perfect proof when , by chance , he suggested , but looked , Charlie thought , like a man just risen from a fever . |
| 6 | appointed him to undertake a complete revision of the geology of the south Wales coalfield and by 1893 Strahan had five geologists working under him . |
| 7 | It is fair to add that Leeds does not seem to have been unique in this respect : reporting on an inspection carried out in ‘ ethnically diverse areas within three LEAs ’ ( including five Leeds Phase 1 PNP schools ) in March 1988 , HMI remarked that ‘ none of the three LEAs had specific policies for parent school liaison ’ ( DES 1988a ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Mind you , my previous Bluebird had electric windows and a radio aerial , and this has n't but those are really luxuries . |
| 9 | By 1984 IBM had fifteen factories in Europe ( two in England , one in Sweden , one in Holland , four in Germany , four in France , two in Italy and one in Spain ) . |
| 10 | With 10 moves to the time-control Yusupov had six minutes to Karpov 's four . |
| 11 | For the present Posidonius had little choice : he had to rely on his illustrious friend Pompey . |
| 12 | He inoculated 923 people in the first twenty weeks of 1765 and by late September had three inoculation houses at Ingatestone for different classes of patients paying six , four , or three guineas . |
| 13 | ‘ The father of poor Agnes had two daughters , ’ said Mr Brownlow . |
| 14 | Nineteenth-century Madeira had many problems similar to those of nineteenth-century Ireland , and many people emigrated in search of a better life . |
| 15 | A bachelor , Darlington-born Jack had many friends and store owner Philip Tarry said his charm and courtesy were well-known . |
| 16 | In one week in the 1640s Hurstmonceux had nineteen visitors in residence , apart from others engaged in repair and building works . |
| 17 | For these reasons , single-centre RMCs had fewer teething troubles and were , generally , quicker off the mark than multi-centre ones . |
| 18 | By 1977 Japan had 25 blast-furnaces in operation with a capacity of over 2 million tons . |
| 19 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 20 | For twenty years from 1961 Ahidjo had relative success in maintaining stability in Cameroun , and by the late 1970s the country was experiencing high rates of growth . |
| 21 | In the Dublin North constituency in February 1987 Haughey had 12,986 votes and Brady had 4,454 at the first count . |
| 22 | That Jennens had some talent as a poet may be judged from ‘ Parthenissa 's Answer to the Pocket-Book 's Soliloquy ’ , a poem in Leapor 's second volume which can now be attributed to her . |
| 23 | In 1778 England had 50,000 men in America and not 10,000 regulars at home that could be collected at any one given spot . |
| 24 | There is also a continuing technological backwardness I think I , I probably mentioned right at the outset that in nineteen fifty India had six times as many tractors per acre in cultivation as China did . |
| 25 | In 1896 France had 575,000 manufacturing établissements ; they had an average of 5.5 workers each and only 151 of them employed more than a thousand people . |
| 26 | Some original Firebirds had three pickups , but only a three-way switch ; as well as master volume and tone controls , the 555 links its pickups to a five-way slider switch for extra variation . |
| 27 | Remarkably , in a short time , war-torn Britain had compulsory direction of labour , it re-established its crippled industries , depressed agriculture was revived , population was relocated ( 1 million schoolchildren were evacuated ) and industry steered . |
| 28 | In 1856 Gainsborough had 13 wharfingers and shipping agents , 6 marine store dealers , 10 ship and sloop owners , 4 ship and boat builders and a sailmaker . |