Example sentences of "had a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a flash of inspiration . |
| 2 | Frau Nordern had a flash of temper . |
| 3 | Watt , out for a sabbath stroll past the Golf-House on Glasgow Green when he should have been in church , had a flash of inspiration that was to change the lives of every man , woman , and bairn on planet earth . |
| 4 | While the band were recording the single , Gedge either had a flash of sheer inspiration or hit upon an elaborate chat-up method . |
| 5 | ‘ That wis my mother 's name , Goad rest her soul , ’ said the man for the fourth time and then had a flash of inspiration . |
| 6 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 7 | Sally-Anne had a flash of memory of him just before their abortive lovemaking , remembered how dear she had felt him , so dear that she no longer saw his scarred face , but only Dr Neil , whom she loved . |
| 8 | not been putting on any loud music recently I 've not had , I 'll stretch it out a little bit , but erm you know , we had a heater in here and er , record player and er ra er radio and that . |
| 9 | ‘ We had a woodcut of one . |
| 10 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
| 11 | You have told me you had a ticket to Miami to go and shoot herself and Jimmy Zaidie but you cancelled it , although I know you did go to Miami subsequently ( around Christmas time 1986 ) to carry out your threat . ’ |
| 12 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 13 | ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’ |
| 14 | and she had a plaster on her arm , right |
| 15 | and she had a plaster on her arm , right |
| 16 | The first Not the Nine O' Clock News series had a sketch about Python worshippers but that team , while itself worshipping Python , went out of its way not to be derivative , eschewing silly voices , dressing in drag and what they later realised to be a misogynist trait in Python . |
| 17 | The judges clearly had a predilection for this style , the Second Empire mode as Hitchcock calls it , as out of the total of fourteen prizes for the offices , seven were awarded to designs in this style , including the first and second in each class . |
| 18 | A reconstruction of the prehistoric Diatryma gigantea suggests that this two-metre high bird also had a predilection for meat — in this case , the carcass of an early horse . |
| 19 | ‘ I understand you also told George that you had a rehearsal in Rotherhithe the night before you tried to reform the Intelligence Service by force majeure . |
| 20 | He had a bottle of cheap booze in his hand , and was swigging from it . |
| 21 | He had a bottle of milk , a jug of cream , and two pats of lovely golden butter in a basket . |
| 22 | He sat in his drawers and had a bottle of beer . |
| 23 | Rufus had a bottle of red wine but he was drinking the wine out of one of Hilbert 's brandy glasses . |
| 24 | When I left I had a bottle of midge-repellent in my pocket , and a loaf of new bread , still warm , in a plastic carrier . |
| 25 | I had a bottle of VP Rich Ruby wine , and Darren 's tablets were in the house , and I had some pain killers . |
| 26 | He had a bottle of Scotch whisky in his office ; he poured a half tumblerful and drank it down . |
| 27 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 28 | Joe had a bottle of Thunderbird too and had already opened it . |
| 29 | They had a bottle of the best port sent up . |
| 30 | He had a bottle of wine under his arm . |