Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a Victorian charm to us , an Emily Post nicety . |
| 2 | When I reluctantly put him back in his shoe box , I had a desperate need to be close to ‘ Fred ’ the person . |
| 3 | He had a powerful aversion to climbing up rigging . ’ |
| 4 | His economic populism had a powerful appeal to white working-class and middle-class voters , who had often viewed the Democrats as too ready to promote race-based liberalism at their expense in recent years . |
| 5 | The children themselves were not present at the Hearing , as they had a legal obligation to be . |
| 6 | The Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 created the Supplementary Benefits Commission ( SBC ) to administer the supplementary benefit scheme and for the first time those whose resources did not meet their requirements had a legal entitlement to the payment of benefit . |
| 7 | He believed on those grounds that he had a legal right to the tyres . |
| 8 | The court held that the facts did not constitute robbery because the accused was not dishonest , because he thought he had a legal right to the money ( see the discussion of s.2(1) ( a ) above ) . |
| 9 | If a man could love flowers and arrange a garden like that , then he had a nice side to him . |
| 10 | And it she had a right talk to him and he said , Well that 's it . |
| 11 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 12 | De Gaulle 's priorities on becoming the Fourth Republic 's last prime minister had a familiar ring to anybody who remembered his actions in the 1940s . |
| 13 | Swallow explained ‘ They had a low-key attitude to the region and had just wanted to get a foot in the door . |
| 14 | Lying in her palm , strained , weeping with desire , it had a definite bias to one side , a kink almost . |
| 15 | There was a letter from her bank manager that had a nasty look to it . |
| 16 | De Raimes laughed , but the sound had a nasty ring to it . |
| 17 | But Paul did n't go home empty-handed , for earlier in the day he won the fours trophy when he led for his father Brian , who had a one-way ticket to next year 's British Isles championships in Ayr with a 27-6 win over the Dunluce four skipped by Malcolm McMullan . |
| 18 | But Paul did n't go home empty-handed , for earlier in the day he won the fours trophy when he led for his father Brian , who had a one-way ticket to next year 's British Isles championships in Ayr with a 27–6 win over the Dunluce four skipped by Malcolm McMullan . |
| 19 | Those early genera that survived had a built-in immunity to ultraviolet radiation , thus helping in the struggle for continued survival . |
| 20 | She was , as Ward had said , rusty as hell , but behind the rust she had a solid look to her . |
| 21 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Lords , sitting as the final court of appeal , ruled that while the ITC and its members had a moral responsibility to its creditors , the creditors had no contractual claims under English law against the 22 member states of the ITC . |
| 22 | In the lodging house he had a tiny cubicle to himself but privacy was impossible . |
| 23 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
| 24 | It had a brittle edge to it . |
| 25 | ‘ We had a nine-month-old Rottweiler to rehome once . |
| 26 | His voice had a hollow echo to it , as if there was nothing inside him . |
| 27 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |
| 28 | The articles I read in Zhongguo Qingnian about the brightest graduates turning down good jobs to volunteer for rural middle schools had a hollow ring to them . |
| 29 | The thought had a hollow ring to it . |
| 30 | It had a vague familiarity to it , and she wondered if she might have been in here before . |