Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was certainly good to read that so many people had never felt healthier or had more energy ; and I was gratified to hear from those who had previously attempted to diet but without success that this diet had worked for them . |
| 2 | None of the patients were alcoholic or had any history of small intestinal disease , gastric operation , or small bowel resection and had not lost more than 10% of body weight in the six months preceding the study . |
| 3 | The tower was about 10 metres high and had solid masonry of brick and stone about 2 metres thick . |
| 4 | Gran was lovely — I know she was old and had awful clothes , but everyone loved her and she had a lovely face , like a statue . ’ |
| 5 | He was thirty-six years old and had heavy family commitments ; it was late in life to change course , but he had hankered after the theatre for years and now decided to follow his instincts . |
| 6 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |
| 7 | Some large examples in important towns such as Rome , Constantinople , Milan , Trier and in the Holy Land were complex designs ( pages 94 , 96 and 173 and XVII ) which might possess more than one hall , or were multi-aisled and had several apses . |
| 8 | The Chiefs in both areas — cryptography and intelligence — were distinguished from the Indians because they were fewer , preponderantly male and had better jobs — better because they were more responsible and closer to the brush of real events . |
| 9 | This disendowment of a loyal servant is reminiscent of Edward 's shabby treatment of John Neville in 1470 and had similar consequences : Neville rebelled at the first real opportunity and the Howards backed Gloucester in 1483 . |
| 10 | This disendowment of a loyal servant is reminiscent of Edward 's shabby treatment of John Neville in 1470 and had similar consequences : Neville rebelled at the first real opportunity and the Howards backed Gloucester in 1483 . |
| 11 | Because I was loud and had red hair , I always played hookers in TV series like Bergerac , The Sweeney , Fox and Minder . ’ |
| 12 | Unlike her sister , Sandy , Evelyn was tall and had red hair . |
| 13 | Most of us , children of tradesmen , miners and semi-skilled factory workers , were better off than that and had higher hopes , though there was a good scattering of nits and lice and dirty feet around the classroom when the nurse came to do her inspection . |
| 14 | The owners showed me the hotel rooms , which looked extremely pleasant and had pure cotton sheets . |
| 15 | The risk , with such a broad approach , is that one might end up making generalisations that were too broad and had little power to predict with any accuracy the intonation that a speaker would use in a particular context . |
| 16 | I had continued since , working for friends and neighbours who were ill or had legal problems . |
| 17 | And the plants grown in polymer were larger and had more leaves than those in control soils . |
| 18 | Silent , humourless and reserved , Haig was also shrewd and ambitious and had unbounded self-esteem . |
| 19 | This house was large and had four bedrooms . |
| 20 | Granny Rocke , who lived to be ninety-two and had seven children , adopting three more who had been orphaned in Australia , could speak Welsh . |
| 21 | Sadler was twice married and had two sons , Windham William [ q.v. ] and John , who assisted him and became professional aeronauts . |
| 22 | By the 1960s he was married and had two children , a son and a daughter . |
| 23 | He was married and had one child , a son . |
| 24 | He was married and had one son and four daughters . |
| 25 | Mine was 18″ long and had two engine pods , each with a small stamped metal prop front and rear . |
| 26 | At first , they were not married but had two sons . |
| 27 | I just signed forms to say that I was no longer responsible or had any claim on the property or whatever . |
| 28 | The guests thought it was romantic and had great fun picking their way through the candlelit restaurant . |
| 29 | Now when they were busy and had important people in our dining room at Ipswich , there was one , there were two waiters . |
| 30 | One of these was Francis Newton Souza , who arrived in Britain from India in 1949 and had some success , nationally and internationally , in the Fifties and early Sixties . |