Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] had a big [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
| 2 | I suppose it would be when they well when they dressed that was the night they had a big celebration was n't it . |
| 3 | He may have been something of a money-hunter , as his correspondence shows , but on the other hand he had a big family of relatives with a call on him . |
| 4 | On Whit Bank Holiday we had a big turnout of 24 member volunteers . |
| 5 | You then say that when the hotelier went to wake up everyone for breakfast he had a big surprise , for in one bed was all the kings , in another was all the queens , in another all the aces and in the other all the jacks . |
| 6 | She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see . |
| 7 | This time they had a big Rottweiler with them . |