Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So she had great fun making them .
2 Could n't you have somehow fixed it so we had separate rooms ? ’
3 In Scotland , Members of Parliament from both sides of the House and local government employees and councillors stupidly said that they would continue with the revaluation , and so we had five-year revaluations until 1985 .
4 Mums and toddlers thought it was wonderful , we only had half a dozen you see in there cos it was low numbers all round so we had low numbers in the
5 ‘ My first reaction was jealously he had great legs , ’ she said .
6 So right away you had Hawaiian choirs singing church music , but they tinged it with this Hawaiian melodic sense , which is like a different way of resolving a melody .
7 Tonight she had other plans .
8 Like she had black hair and
9 For once we had definite news that things were looking up , and it was the perfect antidote to the gruelling journey .
10 What is more it had gold tassels , a feature only found in America , nowhere else in the Salvation Army world .
11 Also I had drunken row with Jack , day two , for which neither party could bring himself to apologize and which polluted friendship forever .
12 Then a few days later we had opening night , and I was in my first tuxedo .
13 If you look from towards , which was a large house in a clump of trees , at the far side was a pavilion which was the clubhouse , they used to hold air displays and pleasure flights , also they had commercial flights .
14 Now she had marvellous hair .
15 Later she would agonise over all the might have beens , but now she had other things on her mind , things that would n't wait .
16 Now she had to-go home and start her own cooking and cleaning .
17 For some years now they had licensing agreements with some major U S companies to produce ‘ Laura Ashley ’ designs on sheets and other home furnishings .
18 Of course they would mourn for Renascia and remember all of the good things about it , only just now they had other things to concentrate on .
19 Medics presented glowing testimonies to successive government inquiries on the marvellous conversion worked by the acts ; where before the conduct of prostitutes was miserable in the extreme , now they had common decency and self-respect .
20 He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum .
21 I , I did , and then of course as I say er , you know , with my husband , well I had lovely holidays before but when you 've got a companion it 's all too different is n't it ?
22 As I was reviewing the material to be used here I had certain issues in my mind which concern the structure and meaning of the support given , based upon the ideas developed by anthropologists and sociologists who have studied kinship in Britain and elsewhere .
23 Well we had massive Yings yesterday !
24 Well I do n't know , we had , not so long ago we had National Dormouse Week did n't we further in the autumn
25 Would that today we had outspoken men of the calibre of Wordsworth and Green to save the landscape from rape and pillage .
26 From here we had immense views , northwards across Ras Kassa 's province of Salale towards the Blue Nile gorge , or southwards to the distant Arussi mountains .
27 Well he had brown hair !
28 Luckily it had short sleeves , and she knew that the subtle shade of pale aquamarine suited her colouring .
29 Fortunately I had heavy duty minders in the form of my sister , Karen , mum and aunt , who were able to keep the kids in line while I translated the menu and discovered it came down to largely burgers , chicken , steaks and ‘ flipper friendly ’ fish .
30 Then I had chronic asthma and doctors found I was breathless from being so heavy . ’
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