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 . |