Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Steve 's mum had fifty pounds worth off of Steve' aunty look , so erm I did about hundred and twenty five and I had twenty five pound back . |
| 2 | Coun Carr said the council 's budget had all-party support and the fact that it had been ignored by Mr Howard showed the futility of an appeal . |
| 3 | Bevan 's action had various causes , but rearmament and its implications for domestic policy were understandably given great prominence in the following months . |
| 4 | What is stated in the bill is only conclusive evidence against the master or agent who signed it , ‘ even where the carrier 's agent had actual authority to sign . ’ |
| 5 | The monk 's cell had stout clay walls and a plaster roof supported by a sturdy central prop . |
| 6 | The poser 's cafe had free newspapers and she filled in the crosswords shamelessly , was even miffed if someone else had got there first , especially with a blue Biro : Alex used a black Biro for crosswords . |
| 7 | Ms McCarthy 's liver had small drops of fat in it , normally found in children suffering Reyes syndrome . |
| 8 | General Eva 's flag had special significance . |
| 9 | To Gould , though , Lear 's enterprise had distinct possibilities . |
| 10 | Holmes pointed out that Davy 's lamp had many faults . |
| 11 | But Field 's career had little impact on his native turf , let alone upon his British neighbours . |
| 12 | Mary 's uncle had black hair with some white in it , and high , crooked shoulders . |
| 13 | Much more one can not say , because although Mitchell made admirable attempts to colour and project his lines , the quartet playing was so uncommitted and flabby , so lacking in dynamic range and in lustre , that Crawford 's music had little chance to make more than superficial impact . |
| 14 | Whatever the truth may be , it seems certain that for the decade 1900 to 1910 the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union had little impact upon the living standards of its members on British ships . |
| 15 | Viola 's voice had that organ note of the English landed aristocracy , though in her case it had been formed not in the hunting-fields , but on the lonely , sheep expanses of her native land . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 17 | The initial application was for : ( i ) Madame Bihi to be joined as a party to the proceedings as a representative of the Democratic Republic of Somalia ; ( ii ) paragraph 3 of the order of Saville J. not to be brought into effect , ( iii ) the court to direct letters to be written to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office asking what state in Somalia was recognised by Her Majesty 's Government as a foreign sovereign state and with what entity , if any , therein Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings of a governmental nature ; and ( iv ) the court to request the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae . |
| 18 | The broadcasters were able to enliven their reports by incorporating actuality clips from the Chamber in about one-third of their parliamentary news stories , and these clips averaged between 25 and 77 seconds in duration , depending on the programme , which usually comprised about a quarter of the story ( exceptionally , BBC2 's Newsnight had longer stories , averaging eight minutes , and its average actuality length of 49.5 seconds comprised only 10% of these items ) . |
| 19 | With the unification process underway ( it happened at midnight on 2nd October , 1990 ) , the anniversary of the European war 's end had special significance in Germany . |
| 20 | Marsh 's book had considerable influence and played a role in stimulating the US government to set up a Forestry Commission to manage the nation 's resources . |
| 21 | The interdependence of farming and mining , added to technological constraints , restricted the number of days annually available for mining ; the farmer-miner 's smallholding had first claim on his time , and he went to the mine with the limited aim of satisfying , with a minimum of effort , the desire for a particular level of cash-income expectation determined by the need to pay the rent of his holding and purchase a given packet of ‘ industrial ’ goods . |
| 22 | Poor John Durbeyfield 's death had more importance than his family realized at first . |
| 23 | In Jones & Smith [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 54 ( CA ) , the occupier 's son had general permission to enter the house but he did not have permission to come in with a friend to steal two televisions , despite the father 's saying that his son would never be a trespasser in his house . |
| 24 | Saltburn 's office had 37,702 visitors , Guisborough 23,497 . |
| 25 | I suppose one would call him a hypochondriac , because Dorothy had once told me that her earliest memory was of her father standing in front of the looking-glass saying , ‘ I am a dying man ’ ; her mother 's face had that bearing-up look one sees on the faces of those suffering with their feet . |
| 26 | These differences between somatic and visceral pain thresholds were confirmed by others who showed that patients with irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn 's disease had higher thresholds than normal controls for somatic pain . |
| 27 | Two patients with Crohn 's disease had mild diarrhoea and slightly increased C-reactive protein and orosomucoid concentrations . |
| 28 | Five probands with Crohn 's disease had seven relatives with that disease ( four first degree , three second degree ) , and four Crohn 's disease probands had six relatives with ulcerative colitis . |
| 29 | Patient 's with Barrett 's mucosa had three specimens taken from the area of columnar lined oesophagus and a fourth from the gastric cardia for comparison . |
| 30 | Patients with higher grades of endoscopic recurrence ( at least five aphthous ulcers ) and those with active Crohn 's ileitis had similar levels of blood flow , which were lower than in controls . |