Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a big [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she talked to key people and travelled round Britain on her preliminary fact-finding tour she discovered she had a big area of ignorance . |
| 2 | On Whit Bank Holiday we had a big turnout of 24 member volunteers . |
| 3 | Right , okay , the other thing I was going to ask about we , we had a big promotion of Amnesty by The Body Shop , last year , er and we noticed that Our Price were also going to do promotion of Amnesty and we asked , wonder if we look into local shops and see what they could find out and what was going on , did you find anything ? |
| 4 | pretty good in those days , two pounds a week which helped things out and er although we had a big family of eleven of us , including mum and dad , er contributi contr contributions from them where , well , whatever they could make , a shilling here and a shilling there . |
| 5 | Later in the war , when sugar was very strictly rationed , we had a big barrel of molasses , a thick syrup , in the small warehouse . |
| 6 | It had a big bottle of Georgio with it . |
| 7 | It had a big cairn of stones which made it quite distinctive . |
| 8 | up our road and very first house , number one , he had a big bit of garden |
| 9 | 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 . |