Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a curious brush with the law myself once when I was sent by my employer to attend a day seminar on drugs to be given at the local university by a police sergeant . |
| 2 | He opened the Salzburg music festival , but encountered a protest demonstration when he had a controversial meeting with Kurt Waldheim , the Austrian President . |
| 3 | Fiona , who supervised Davies for ten months , had a torrid affair with the former jailbird and became his self-confessed ‘ sex puppet . ’ |
| 4 | Before conversion , the building had a simple plan with a nave and aisles of six bays terminated by a shallow semi-octagonal apse at the east end . |
| 5 | He also had a disinterested fascination with the records of the middle ages , especially those of the west country . |
| 6 | Sadly , it already had a dented side with a broken window . |
| 7 | Britain had a close affinity with the liberal-democratic and colonial states on the Continent , to whom she provided large-scale military and economic aid after the war . |
| 8 | As a woman , married to a man , you had a close relationship with other women — your own kind — and also with men . |
| 9 | He told Johnson that Warburton ( the combative English divine and man of letters , whose generally controversial national presence made him a common topic of Johnsonian conversation ) had a close relationship with an unnamed ‘ eminent printer ’ . |
| 10 | The plaintiff was the stepdaughter of the deceased and had a close relationship with him . |
| 11 | The late Reverend Dr Albert Holland had a close association with the Edenderry Senior CE Society . |
| 12 | During the recent years after the war the university rose in national importance and always had a close connection with the bishop . |
| 13 | Thus Vaughan had a close connection with both the family of the deceased fourth Duke of Norfolk and with Anne Mowbray 's young brother-in-law Edward . |
| 14 | Accordingly , it submitted that a member state might introduce rules which entailed that nationals of other member states might utilise that member state 's quotas only if they had a close connection with that state . |
| 15 | It was quite near the Bakers too , and had a nice garden with a walnut tree and plum trees . |
| 16 | Morse turned to look at the waters once more before he left , then sat silently in the passenger-seat of the police car as Lewis had a final word with Sergeant Dixon . |
| 17 | We had a final drink with Nils while he checked the list of his requirements for the prop-shaft alterations , then we went out into the night , walking quickly through the bitter blustering of the wind back to our billet . |
| 18 | and had a right chat with him on the way but , laugh . |
| 19 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 20 | Now I had a right job with them . |
| 21 | Had a long chat with Dad about which service we should attend . |
| 22 | So I had a long chat with the , with the cleansing officer and the main point |
| 23 | I had a long chat with during the trip when , amongst other topics , we recalled the days of the agricultural show season and some of the hectic times we had , especially at the Norfolk and Suffolk shows . |
| 24 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 25 | In England for the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch , I had a long conversation with James , of which I recall principally that it was about fate . |
| 26 | He had a long conversation with a Russian passenger , who talked about magic and ‘ hidden powers ’ in a most interesting way . |
| 27 | On May 18th 60 members had a long session with Howard Pastor , the White House head of congressional liaison , trying to convince him of the need for further cuts . |
| 28 | Città del Castello , which had a long rivalry with Arezzo , had reason to want papal protection in order to stave off the ambitions of Arezzo . |
| 29 | Buck strode up to his ball and had a long consultation with his caddy . |
| 30 | Probably the greatest scientific panjandrum of the 19th century , Thomson had a long association with transoceanic cables . |