Example sentences of "had [adj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , you had half an hour break to have your meal . |
| 2 | They then had half an hour to make a hat accompanied by much laughter . |
| 3 | So , in theory , someone of my age had half an hour of free time , although it was in fact impossible to find any place where one could be alone . |
| 4 | Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport . |
| 5 | He had half an hour before Ruane took him to dinner . |
| 6 | She had meant only to run up the road for a breath of air when the rain stopped and she had been drawn on into the spring evening until now she had half an hour 's brisk walk to get home . |
| 7 | When I say we 've got some trouble , we do , but it 's not like the trouble we had half an hour ago , when in fact there were three lines , sections of which there were no trains on at all . |
| 8 | She bought first-class tickets and still had half an hour to spare . |
| 9 | They say it was only a part of it , you know , because we only had half an hour , did n't we , there and then |
| 10 | ‘ If she had half an ounce of sense , ’ she said , ‘ she 'd 've put a lock on this thing . ’ |
| 11 | Well , they were built pre-war , and they were still in good condition and they each had half an acre of land . |
| 12 | She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger . |
| 13 | ‘ Who said I had such an idea ? ’ asked Joan innocently . |
| 14 | Not since 1297 and 1310–11 had such an alliance confronted the king . |
| 15 | Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it . |
| 16 | The scenario had such an element of truth about it that she found herself embroidering details . |
| 17 | Most first and second generation computers had such an instruction to stop the computer , the instruction sometimes containing a store address at which execution was to be resumed upon suitable manual intervention . |
| 18 | As Dr David Starkey has pointed out , James 's palace is today the best example in Britain of that style of royal architecture which had such an effect on the political life of the court . |
| 19 | A DOCUMENTARY programme from NBC-TV in January 1973 , had such an impact that in the following 48 hours more than a quarter of a million copies of the associated book were sold . |
| 20 | Had such an option been granted to the Danes , other countries would have demanded similar privileges , and the dream of creating a unitary European state would have become unattainable . |
| 21 | Anthony Scrivener QC , for the defence , had told the judge that Goldman had such an interest in protecting the MCC share price that it had a motive to ‘ create a story ’ about his client mounting a bear raid . |
| 22 | Mrs Whitehouse as a television licence holder had such an interest when seeking a declaration that the Independent Broadcasting Authority had acted unlawfully over the screening of the film Scum . |
| 23 | What troubles the admirer of Lewis the critic — the man who had such an eye for excellence in the poets of past ages — is that he could be capable of stanza after stanza in which the verse is deadened by flat language , repeated clumsy enjambments and sheer technical incompetence . |
| 24 | Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot . |
| 25 | No other observer was so close to Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ q.v. ] during their most productive years together at Alfoxden and Grasmere ; and no one else had such an eye for the landscapes which inspired them , or could provide them with living materials for poetry out of her own observations . |
| 26 | It would be surprising if Parliament had such an intention today . |
| 27 | But in certain circumstances , the defendant may exculpate himself from liability either by raising doubts as to whether he had such an intention or awareness , or by establishing on a balance of probabilities the defence that he lacked mens rea . |
| 28 | She had all an Arab 's volatility , added to which was an emphatic unpredictability which was all her own . |
| 29 | with hocked gems financing him/ our hero bravely defied all scornful laughter/ that tried to prevent his scheme/ your eyes deceive/ he had said/ an egg/ not a table/ correctly typifies this unexplored planet/ now three sturdy sisters sought proof/ forging along sometimes through calm vastness/ yet more often over turbulent peaks and valleys/ days became weeks/ as many doubters spread fearful rumours about the edge/ at last/ from nowhere/ welcome winged creatures appeared/ signifying momentous success |