Example sentences of "had [noun] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McBride rose to challenge the keeper for one of many McCoy crosses which had Bangor in a spin . |
| 2 | McBride rose to challenge the keeper for one of many McCoy crosses which had Bangor in a spin . |
| 3 | The origin of the slang term ‘ Beak ’ for Magistrate is also associated with the belief that they had herbs in a horn to protect them from any disease that might be contracted from evil smelling criminals . |
| 4 | Special Branch Detective Inspector Roger Watson , 46 , who was based at Heathrow airport , saw a doctor and had hypnotherapy in a bid to cure the anxiety he kept a secret . |
| 5 | Both men had shops in a village ten miles to the east of Reine , on the Seine . |
| 6 | In the afternoon we had tea in a house full of the most beautiful women . |
| 7 | At lunchtime they pulled into a lay-by for a picnic ; and later in the afternoon they had tea in a transport café where three lorry drivers stared at them , whispered to one another and laughed . |
| 8 | Conservation and animal welfare organisations had stands in a marquee in the zoo grounds and admission prices were specially reduced for the day . |
| 9 | Roberto Lui Wu , a congressman who was a member of Fujimori 's small political party , was shot dead by masked gunmen as he had lunch in a Lima market yesterday . |
| 10 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 11 | I had mine in a cone , with wafers stuck in the top that I used to eat it with , but Cati sat down and she had hers with a spoon , out of a glass , sitting up on one of those stools … . ’ |
| 12 | Andy McComb had Aigburth in a spin , taking 5–34 as Prescot and Odyssey won by six wickets . |
| 13 | A glance at a short section of a DXF file , see Fig. 2 , might lead to the conclusion that whoever designed the format either had shares in a paper manufacturing company , or a grudge against rain forests . |