Example sentences of "they had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the second panel the same people , considerably sobered and looking as if they had a serious hangover , were being led away by the classic medieval figure of Death , a grisly skeleton in a black robe and cowl , who rather reminded Preston of an old schoolmaster he had known called Mr Pilkington . |
| 32 | Each man had grandiose visions , Neither was able to turn them into reality but , for better or for worse , they had a lasting impact on the Middle East . |
| 33 | Someone , a bit of a wag , said , ‘ Time they had a new stick to hit that there bell . ’ |
| 34 | They would have lists of all the people that had bought books from them or might have bought books from them in the past , categorized by where they live , the age of the person , the sex , the special interests , the past purchases , and then they would send out special books erm special letters , if they had a new doggie book coming out they might select all the ladies over fifty-five who had bought doggie books in the past . |
| 35 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |
| 36 | They had a new machine in , but after a pound or so I had mastered it and won an extra spaceship . |
| 37 | But they had a new headmaster oh he 's just retired , he 's been there been there since Lynn was there when since she was since the er she 's twice that age so I mean he must have been there eighteen years but when he went there he 's er totally the school from the word go |
| 38 | They had a new car , and went to the cinema and ate out . |
| 39 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 40 | An hour later , standing in the darkness , so far from having the fourth murder in a series , they had a new killing : one which was superficially like the others , but whose only real resemblance lay in the infliction of one particular wound , and the manner and location in which the body was laid out after death . |
| 41 | The morning crew were a little surprised to find they had a new colleague but none of them was unduly perturbed by the intrusion . |
| 42 | They had a good reputation for being able to develop mechanical ideas if you briefed them well ( they had already built the TARDIS console for Peter Brachaki ) . |
| 43 | They had a good home farm , the Gotobeds . |
| 44 | ‘ I take risks , but they 're calculated risks and I would n't take them if I did n't think they had a good chance of succeeding . |
| 45 | Even in Wessex and East Anglia the ravaged territories were not always particularly extensive at any one time , and much of the population may have reckoned that they had a good chance of escaping . |
| 46 | courses in turn , tended to select for observation those schools where they had a good relationship with the drama specialist . |
| 47 | She was n't in love with Ryan , but he was cute and they had a good relationship . |
| 48 | They had a good artist . |
| 49 | Reaching the bridge , they had a good look round but found nothing . |
| 50 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
| 51 | He took stick from everyone his mates said it was about time they had a good laugh . |
| 52 | They had a good night 's sleep but they had a tremendous job waking up this morning . |
| 53 | Apart from collecting money from the offertory at Mass , which was always very well attended , they had a good income from what they charged individuals to have Masses said for the souls of the dead . |
| 54 | They had a good past and a reasonable future , but they were ruined by the highest interest rates this century and an unrealistic exchange rate , which lost them export markets and provided further competition in their home markets . |
| 55 | And when my father spoke about He got a holi they got a holiday from the school , that day , because the teacher came to see this old body going out the glen that 's body and they walked out , so it 'd be two miles out and then maybe another three miles up the er Glen Shee kirk here , so they had a good bit to carry him . |
| 56 | They had a good supper of eggs and milk and crunchy , fresh bread in the kitchen which was as clean as the rest of the house but more cheerful with a big range fire that threw out heat like a furnace . |
| 57 | The trio felt the time was right ; they had worked together for four years , and they had a good track record — an important factor when it came to raising money for the new venture . |
| 58 | They had a good evening together , all the same . |
| 59 | They had a good diet of bread , margarine , jam and bacon for breakfast , roast beef , potatoes and greens , and rice pudding for lunch , and bread and jam for tea with cake once a week . |
| 60 | Denis Smith says he enjoyed himself at Stoke especially in the early seventies when they had a good team … as a professional he wants Oxford to win but after the game will revert to being a stoke supporter … he says his young son also supports them |