Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a big [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a big row with Boz about what happened . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I still had tears in my eyes , but I had a big smile on my face too . |
| 4 | which is what I , I , in the I had Eric Bristow and Maureen one night , and , I mean , it was just little dart board in the corner , but what I did was , I had a big screen like that and I just got student television service just to film it live and just throw it straight back up onto the big |
| 5 | She had a big bulge in her pocket , exactly like Victorine 's . |
| 6 | Cos she had a big hole like that and holes there ! |
| 7 | But er according to my mother 's great joy , she got seasick even on the landing stage in in Liverpool and never came out of her cabin , so she had a big time as a young women running around the ship . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yes I mean , I think that we had a big discussion at the last area committee on the scheme and the problem was of course that the detailed plans er , for the consultation erm to the , I 'm at , I 'm a bit worried that at this late stage there 's this new idea of of building on the green wedge at the back and I would n't like to think that the scheme should be delayed the important thing , it seems to me , is that it should press ahead and |
| 10 | false at first and then we had a big discussion about it . |
| 11 | On Whit Bank Holiday we had a big turnout of 24 member volunteers . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Gilbert : ‘ When we had a big exhibition at the Hayward Gallery , 80 works , only three or four had a penis in it . ’ |
| 16 | Later in the war , when sugar was very strictly rationed , we had a big barrel of molasses , a thick syrup , in the small warehouse . |
| 17 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
| 18 | This time they had a big Rottweiler with them . |
| 19 | maybe that 's one of women 's traditions , I believe they had a big part to pla play in it . |
| 20 | They had a big hit around the time and the shop was always full of these kids who were really into that gay , shallow disco — stuff like ‘ The Hustle ’ . |
| 21 | You might also ask them if they had a big hi-jacking at the end of May . |
| 22 | It had a big bottle of Georgio with it . |
| 23 | and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs |
| 24 | It had a big name in athletics and some of our boys went on to be students there , so the reputation of Henry Compton was high in the field of sport . |
| 25 | It had a big cairn of stones which made it quite distinctive . |
| 26 | It had a big egg in it . |
| 27 | He had a big putt to hole on the 17th and he did n't make it . |
| 28 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 29 | He had a big advantage over Peter Slade in that by the time his seminal publication , Development through Drama , emerged in 1967 , the profession , particularly teachers in the Primary schools , was more eager to seize upon his message . |
| 30 | He had a big smile on his face . |