Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of WWII , the Beverley , East Yorks firm of Richard Hodgson 's Tannery had a Memorial to those employees who lost their lives in the two world wars displayed on the outside wall of their social club . |
| 2 | His own father 's mistress had a habit of always being there . |
| 3 | Though Niki 's car had a series of defects , his low placing was also the result of his own mistakes . |
| 4 | ‘ The average tramp 's cell had a bed with a mattress , a straw pillow , and three blankets . |
| 5 | In the display the Godfather 's desk had a number of books on it ; the waxworks owner reached for them one by one . |
| 6 | George told Stella that St Aloysius 's orphanage had a block-booking . |
| 7 | Jed 's room had a raunchy , hot , savage smell . |
| 8 | Before Ronny Jordan was born , his mother 's landlord had a dream in which he pictured her beside a guitar . |
| 9 | My father 's wallet had a thong |
| 10 | DMITRY 'S FATHER HAD A GLOBE , and he would point out to Dmitry the different countries and continents , and would make young Dmitry memorise the names of their capital cities . |
| 11 | Two weeks after her twenty-sixth birthday , Jenny 's father had a heart attack . |
| 12 | The ‘ poor widow ’ of Chaucer 's Nun 's Priest 's Tale had a diet consisting mainly of milk and brown bread , with broiled bacon and the occasional egg , and this may represent a fairly normal diet . |
| 13 | Captain R.R. ( Bill ) Baldwin 's platoon had a patrol out under Corporal Palmer when the Japanese launched their first attack ( see map p. 77 ) and the platoons withdrew through enemy patrolled country , laying ambushes in the scrub . |
| 14 | The child 's voice had a tremor in it . |
| 15 | Harper 's voice had a note of relish as he spoke of the fighting to Lucille . |
| 16 | ‘ Be that as it may ’ — Miss Rene 's voice had a touch of admonition in it — ‘ as I 'm always telling you : betters do as betters do ; it 's no concern of me or you . ’ |
| 17 | The senior surgeon at the Dreadnought Seamen 's Hospital had a series of incomparable radiographs of bladder and renal chyluria . |
| 18 | Geoffroy 's challenge had a significance beyond the purely intellectual level . |
| 19 | ‘ Handsome is as handsome does , ’ snapped Matey , who as an ex-children 's nurse had a fund of such sayings . |
| 20 | But William 's grandad had a system working for him . |
| 21 | William 's grandad had a lot of friends , unless they were there only to make sure he was safely laid to rest , where he could n't get up to much more mischief . |
| 22 | Speaking at the funeral of 17-year-old Damien Fegan , Fr Martin Kelly said the dead youth 's mother had a message for young people involved in the craze . |
| 23 | Held , dismissing the appeals , that , prior to the enactment of the Congenital Disabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 , at common law a breach of the duty of care did not give rise to a cause of action in negligence until the plaintiff suffered an injury ; that , although a foetus did not enjoy an independent legal personality , by the time that the plaintiffs were born in 1967 the common law recognised that a child born with a deformity because of a negligent act occurring during the mother 's pregnancy had a cause of action ; and that , therefore , the plaintiffs had a cause of action against the defendant health authorities for any negligent act prior to their birth which caused them to be born with deformities ( post , pp. 654H , 656D–F , 660E — 661D ) . |
| 24 | Lord 's fitness had a lot to do with his rally from a 2-0 deficit in games but Newton did not help his cause by incurring numerous conduct penalty points . |
| 25 | In the 1989 Irish general election whose results were tabulated earlier ( p.42 ) , the Workers ' Party had a PV of 5.0% , its highest ever , but a PS of 4.2% . |