Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] a big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luck has played a big part . |
| 2 | The Rover car group has announced a big increase in world-wide sales . |
| 3 | Mama had made a big kettle of soup . |
| 4 | The one in town 's got a big sign up in the window now saying as from the 1st April , we will only do methadone prescriptions in between two and five o'clock in the afternoon , right . |
| 5 | The young Irish champion had made a big impression on his regular cross-channel trips last season , and a place with Swift or Van Diemen had been earmarked for him ever since he stunned the British series regulars by winning the opening round of the 1992 championship . |
| 6 | ‘ The Fisheries Commission has made a big deal of the fact that hundreds of nets have been seized . |
| 7 | The owner of the stall reminisced about old Wadi Halfa where his father had owned a big tea-house on the Corniche . |
| 8 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 9 | By taking over Thames , the firm has taken a big step towards becoming a powerhouse in British television . |
| 10 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 11 | The Hartlepool Voluntary Development Agency has received a big cash boost from Cleveland County Council . |
| 12 | ‘ It was the strangest game I 've played in — as if the crowd had stuck a big syringe in me and sucked all the energy out , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ The new system has made a big improvement to our customer service and has reduced costs , ’ says Guinness Ghana managing director . |
| 14 | or someone has to take a , a bi a co company has to take a big lot off . |
| 15 | A FORMER Darlington businessman has made a big contribution to a health appeal after sophisticated equipment saved his life . |
| 16 | A FORMER businessman has made a big contribution to a health appeal after sophisticated equipment saved his life . |