Example sentences of "had a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a flash of inspiration . |
| 2 | Watt , out for a sabbath stroll past the Golf-House on Glasgow Green when he should have been in church , had a flash of inspiration that was to change the lives of every man , woman , and bairn on planet earth . |
| 3 | ‘ That wis my mother 's name , Goad rest her soul , ’ said the man for the fourth time and then had a flash of inspiration . |
| 4 | Sally-Anne had a flash of memory of him just before their abortive lovemaking , remembered how dear she had felt him , so dear that she no longer saw his scarred face , but only Dr Neil , whom she loved . |
| 5 | Frau Nordern had a flash of temper . |
| 6 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 7 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
| 8 | He had a bottle of milk , a jug of cream , and two pats of lovely golden butter in a basket . |
| 9 | She had a bottle of milk and a bag of fairy cakes in her hand , the tears running down her face . |
| 10 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 11 | When I left I had a bottle of midge-repellent in my pocket , and a loaf of new bread , still warm , in a plastic carrier . |
| 12 | He sat in his drawers and had a bottle of beer . |
| 13 | When we went up to th , we had coffee and Mick had a bottle of beer erm , before we went in and and last year , well you would n't of go , dreamed of getting a seat in that restaurant area , yo you would n't ! |
| 14 | no , well you can do some later , I thought I had a bottle of lemon juice in the fridge , not the fridge Robert loves Cadbury 's cream eggs |
| 15 | He had a bottle of wine under his arm . |
| 16 | But they have not had an easy time of it , as much of the garden was originally covered by a concrete driveway , and the soil , though fertile had a layer of ironstone at about the depth you need to plan shrubs . |
| 17 | The water in the basins had a layer of ice on them , which had to be broken before the children could wash ; then , in the dining room they sat shivering , for the fire at the end of the room did not take even the chill away . |
| 18 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 19 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 20 | He had a story of engine trouble to explain his own unauthorised landing , and we had to let him go . |
| 21 | The coffee stall proved to be very successful and R. T. Smith , who had a heart of gold and a knack of handling welfare problems , gave up his job with Thornycroft 's , in order to found , in 1880 , the Chiswick Mission and he was successful in finding homes for children who had been left motherless , but were not eligible to be accepted into orphanages . |
| 22 | ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’ |
| 23 | Cissie had a love of reading , especially since Beth had helped her to master the longer words that she had never really understood . |
| 24 | But now she 's alright , she had a feather of pillow for a couple of years it 's like |
| 25 | One had tried to involve some of the staff but they apparently refused to get involved ; another head wanted more involvement and had a plan of action that would lead to this : another was sure that all staff were involved and departments were compelled to discuss finance at least once a month . |
| 26 | So long as the boy was alive and had a chance of survival he was as much entitled to retain that chance as the others ; whereas in our problem it may be that the men who are cut away have no chance of survival at all . |
| 27 | They would work more effectively , Dr Benton says , if they all had a bowl of cereal , a slice of toast or a bacon sandwich first thing . |
| 28 | In one series of cases reported by Dr Henninger , only 19 percent of horses treated surgically had a recurrence of tendon injury , compared to 63 percent of horses which had a recurrence of injury following non-surgical treatment . |
| 29 | In one series of cases reported by Dr Henninger , only 19 percent of horses treated surgically had a recurrence of tendon injury , compared to 63 percent of horses which had a recurrence of injury following non-surgical treatment . |
| 30 | She had a plot of ground in the kitchen garden where no ignorant person could tamper with her treasures . |