Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] have a big [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But she also had a big dowry . |
2 | ‘ We always had a big crowd here in the old days , ’ said Father Anstruther , glancing round the hall , which certainly might have been fuller . |
3 | And then , what was it , the big disush , discussion in Science , cos we always have a big discussion in Science , what was it today , spiders . |
4 | what they are doing you see , an authorized dealer , well even a non-authorized dealer get hold of a piece of kit and then somebody say want this system , right okay , and they just have a big load of forms for maintenance agreements and all they do the dealer 'll go along and put this kit in , B T 'll come along and say yeah that conforms to regulations , sign here , the customer er sign here , the dealer send the maintenance agreement to us , we signed it , send it back , we 've never even seen it , then we turn up and find that the main control unit 's high up in the attic or in a damp cellar , in a cupboard where you ca n't see it , there 's no light and stuff like that and we 're taking jobs on like that and it you know , it 's just impossible to work on them |
5 | Mead Corp 's Mead Data Central Inc database operator plans to dump its mainframes — it already has a big bunch of Sun Microsystems Inc workstations , and it has now chosen Hewlett-Packard Co to become a strategic supplier for its next-generation computing . |