Example sentences of "had real [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , there are people in the City who would pay a vast sum of money to be able to boast they had real rabbit at one of their dinners . ’ |
| 2 | On the other hand , some of these papers had real flair . |
| 3 | Slender though she was , she had real stamina . |
| 4 | She made a lot of conventional noises , of course ; she had to because you ca n't have Rose and Grace getting any sillier than they are already and they might have taken it into their heads to copy you , but I could see she thought you had real spirit . |
| 5 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
| 6 | We had real fun with Marie cutting my hair . |
| 7 | He had real charm , which made canny figures such as Tolkien distrust him . |
| 8 | Some of the cottages behind their stone sea-walls had real charm , others were plain and cramped and only borrowed a little grace from their situation . |
| 9 | This is a generation for whom the war years remain vivid and the Empire had real meaning . |
| 10 | Francesca 's judgement was typically over-judicial and conscientiously unemotional , but this had real force behind it . |
| 11 | Why otherwise would the right hon. Member for Chesterfield feel the need to table such a motion and why would 24 other Members sign it , if they had real confidence in what they were being told by the Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen and agreed with them ? |
| 12 | She had real strength in her . |
| 13 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 14 | They did not all put it quite as bluntly as William 11 , but there existed a European society of kings which had real importance for its members . |
| 15 | I imagined conning Wavebreaker into Dartmouth , and taking the power skiff upriver to one of my old and favourite pubs where the ale had real taste instead of the limp-wristed chill of North American beers . |
| 16 | She said of him that he had real taste with the produce and was a willing lad all round . |
| 17 | Each sacrifice , upheld by God 's promise and power had real effect and potency , but this was not a power that could be manipulated by man . |
| 18 | I was one of the first ones to be flown out and then there was a postal hold-up so I had real trouble finding out what was going on , and also trying to organise to have him brought home . |