Example sentences of "[adj] and had [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at him , smiling , and he thought she was beautiful , even though she was old and had a stiff , curly whisker or two on her chin . |
| 2 | The boy was about fourteen years old and had the long , fuzzy hair of the Dervish . |
| 3 | The ramparts themselves were of earth , but were timber-faced and had an internal wooden framework to give additional strength . |
| 4 | In such areas the landscape was as much medieval as in the open-field lands but it was very different and had a different pattern of settlement within it . |
| 5 | Fair-haired , he was clean shaven and had a strong face . |
| 6 | Alain became interesting to his father when he showed that he was exceptionally clever and had the same flair for finance . |
| 7 | On the domestic front I was less fortunate and had no great success with house hunting . |
| 8 | The plaintiff was the stepdaughter of the deceased and had a close relationship with him . |
| 9 | He said he was feeling sick and numb and had a crushing pain . |
| 10 | I remember nothing there except a girl in the top class , who was fair-haired and had a bright complexion , and I see her now in my mind 's eye outstretched , lying upon her back on the floor . |
| 11 | The Constable had been in the Force since 1924 and had an excellent character [ and ] served in the trenches at the age of fifteen and a half . |
| 12 | The thigh was straight and had an inturned head , compared ( favourably ) with that of the reptile which is slightly S-shaped and without a head . |
| 13 | I was ignorant and had no worldly experience in those days . |
| 14 | It was dark and had a tiny window . |
| 15 | Today ( a wet Monday ) he was up as usual at 6.30 and had a few cornflakes and a pint of coffee . |
| 16 | Ted was signed for the Palace by Manager Jack Tresadern from Preston in the summer of 1934 and had a magnificent first season , only prevented from making full appearances by an injury sustained in our Christmas Day fixture at Torquay . |
| 17 | The taxi driver said that the man was well-dressed and had a black beard and pale face . |
| 18 | Bologna was rich and had the usual rivalries with neighbours , most intensively with Modena , its arch-enemy . |
| 19 | He was shrivelled , wispy-haired and had a pronounced squint . |
| 20 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |
| 21 | It came up on the wall like that and had a big wooden block fastened to the wall that block |
| 22 | Armstrong was born in 1893 and had a classical education at Oxford before reaching art school just before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 23 | At that stage I was optimistic about what we were doing — Jeremy was physically strong and fit and had a resourceful mind and a determined , even stubborn , character . |
| 24 | Normally he was relaxed and had an easy-going manner . |
| 25 | When I replaced him he was quite stressed and as a result a week later became ill and had a fungal growth on him . |
| 26 | The mines were large and had a long life and fitted in with RTZ 's strategic objectives , he added . |
| 27 | He was referred in 1984 and had a full clinical remission with elemental diet and began single food reintroductions . |
| 28 | The redhead was leggy and had a terrific figure . |
| 29 | His eyes had been rubbed a raw red by fatigue and cold and had a harried glitter . |
| 30 | The temptation to let go was strongly compelling and had a good argument to back it up . |