Example sentences of "and had [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 From Becher 's second-time I was always just struggling , though jumping the third-last I was in the right position and had every chance .
2 He came from a good home , was well educated and had every advantage .
3 On his arrival , he had been satisfied to see the defences that had been set up around the hospital , and had every intention of congratulating those responsible .
4 I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there .
5 Sec. , crafty devil , was in the right place at the right time when the service train arrived at Deeside Halt , and had a footplate ride on ‘ Foxcote Manor ’ on the run round .
6 Then the Prince came up and had a try and he did n't do any better . ’
7 So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time .
8 They recommended equipment and had a discount arrangement with the mail order company Field and Trek , whose advice was excellent and whose rucksack proved a boon .
9 The sitting-room was very small , as David had said , and had a country look about it , with lots of chintz and dried flowers , and old cherrywood furniture .
10 Chris appeared with a handful of rather sweaty egg-and-cress sandwiches and a smaller boy who wore spectacles and had a problem .
11 She left after a few months and had a home tutor .
12 I stopped at a pub I used rarely near the BBC and had a ploughman 's and a couple of orange juices , no alcohol , partly because I wanted to keep a clear head and partly to fit in with the cab-driver persona .
13 He was thirty-five and had a while to wait , everyone reckoned .
14 I was too scared to speak to her because she was a bit on the large side and had a pair of glasses sitting on the tip of her nose and she struck me as a very bossy , short tempered teacher .
15 ‘ I went to me friend 's house and had a bit of tea . ’
16 They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class .
17 We bypassed Shaibah of the famous and immortal song Shaibah Blues — which will be belted out by our sons and their sons I hope for evermore — and on to Bahrain where we landed and had a bit of a briefing by the CO of No 84 Squadron based at Shaihali , and so on down the Gulf to look for the City of Glasgow .
18 She said I had not been meant to have this until I was twenty-five , but since I was married and had a child , they had been able to break the trust .
19 It did n't help me that I was a common-law wife for 18 years and had a child .
20 After a further period in the translation agency of a chemical firm , she returned to England and had a child .
21 Other Western diplomats , local journalists and most political analysts claimed , however , that the coup had been rumoured for weeks and had a level of sophistication far greater than that expected from mostly illiterate soldiers in the ranks .
22 ‘ Julia sees herself as vaguely uneducated and slightly scatty , but in fact she 's the one who went and did the directing and had a hit with her first show .
23 The table was remarkably clean and had a patina that suggested an acquaintance with money rather than supper-plates .
24 Nobody applied the term ‘ silly season ’ to the news that a man had got into Buckingham Palace and had a chat with the Queen , sitting on the edge of her bed .
25 Afterwards , Lady Mary Wilson , Sir Harold 's wife , came and had a chat .
26 We are interested in receiving a report of what took place when the Leader of the Oppositon went to Barrow and had a chat with the work force .
27 ‘ We could have come round and had a chat instead of having every foot patrol and Panda car in the bloody Met wandering around checking the numbers on every pigging black cab in town .
28 Soon they rolled back the carpet and had a dance .
29 The courtyard behind was now a restaurant , and had a tree which Jean Rhys might have remembered .
30 Apparently it 's been practising that technique , and had a sample of the little thing with it on its road trip last week .
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