Example sentences of "had a [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | and she had a plaster on her arm , right |
| 3 | and she had a plaster on her arm , right |
| 4 | I had a perm on Friday and then rushed off to the dentist for an emergency white cement type filling to fill my Friday 13th loss ( ! ) — maddening to have to go back again as it is the other side of town , but I walked the two miles or so home , along with Bella . |
| 5 | They had a comic on the bill who had me in stitches . ’ |
| 6 | It 's no surprise I had a frown on my face . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That incident was where we had a free-kick on our half-way line and he was just marking me tight , and there was a bit of bantering going on between us . |
| 8 | Then on another shot , he had a POW on the drill , who turned round and waved at the camera crew , so that was scrubbed out and done again . |
| 9 | In his pre-sponsorship days he used to be known as ‘ the surfer who lived in a car ’ ; in France he had a tent on the beach . |
| 10 | As a boy Prince Charles played in the rooms and corridors of Clarence House and had a nursery on the top floor . |
| 11 | ‘ Then we had a chat on the phone last week and I told Nigel it would be a new adventure for him if he joined our team and that we are all looking forward to his racing in America . |
| 12 | He was descended from Nevil Maskelyne [ q.v. ] , astronomer royal , who had a crater on the moon named after him . |
| 13 | Mr Shah , he said , had a return on his investment . |
| 14 | For the first time since she iced her Dad , Jazzbeaux felt she really had a purpose on this dull earth . |
| 15 | No other contact with the board was required of the business heads , although each had a contact on the board who provided ongoing support . |
| 16 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 17 | They had a bed on the stage and they had red satin sheets on it |
| 18 | Then he had a roll on the lawn before charging at her and coming to a full stop , big feet outsplayed , head down , ready to play . |
| 19 | There 's no real hurry , it 's not till 11.30 ) chatting brightly to hide the hollow empty absence of anything at all in the way of feeling , and kept my eyes off Toby 's face which had a look on it as if someone were dragging his insides out . |
| 20 | The flat-bottomed ark itself had a sea-scape on its side , painted up to the plimsoll-line , a dimensionless vision of the remote deeps full of strawberry-coloured fish and forests of weeds and barnacled rocks with , here and there , a plump mermaid of the kind sailors have tattooed on their arms . |
| 21 | ‘ I had a bite on the top of my head for more than a month . |
| 22 | The Conservatives ' worst performances , in contrast , came where they had a majority on the council and there had been a large increase in bills . |
| 23 | One day she sat here and she had a T-shirt on Joyce |
| 24 | I had a go on Nigel 's racing bike . |
| 25 | She added : ‘ We had a go on this over four years ago . |
| 26 | We had a go on the swing . |
| 27 | So dad had a go on it did he ? |
| 28 | Yeah , dad had a go on it , it was funny it was ! |
| 29 | Had a go on the machine |
| 30 | it was eleven quids in , eleven quids , eleven quid if you had a go on a stand by day . |