Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Speaker , Sir , when we had a Greater London Council , the noise of lorries in London was controlled . |
| 2 | She had a Long Island accent , though she came from Fresno . |
| 3 | One of her missions in life was to try and instil an Oxford accent into small boys who had a pronounced Wiltshire one . |
| 4 | I currently had a Cavalier SRi and was looking for a GSi . |
| 5 | Siobhan had a bloody MacDonalds tonight . |
| 6 | They all stayed over and we had a superb Sunday lunch at the Garden House Hotel , lazing around until late afternoon when we went our separate ways . |
| 7 | As well as Irises , Mrs Charles S. Payson had a superb Picasso in her collection : Au Lapin Agile of 1905 . |
| 8 | We then had a rousing Le Corsaire pas de deux , with Elvira Tarasov and Igor Zelensky dancing just as Ruzimatov should have done in the Diana and Actaeon , with technical bravura but putting the choreography and music first , and themselves only as the servants of dance as an art . |
| 9 | Except for the more delicate crabs , they had a provincial Sunday lunch quality . |
| 10 | During 1987 to 1991 , 958 homosexual men aged 19 years or under had , for clinical purposes , had a first HIV test at one of the 18 laboratories participating in the study of HIV testing . |
| 11 | Then , all at once , he seemed to be in the money ; he had a new BMW and a boat . |
| 12 | Within six weeks their most aggressive rivals had a new de Chavigny campaign under way — and not on the drawing-boards , but on the pages of every major magazine in the country . |
| 13 | This one had a .44 Colt on his hip and his hat tipped forward with the brim curled almost to a point , the hat loose on his head but seeming to be part of him . |
| 14 | Sadly , Rose suffered a major setback one day , when she had a grand mal epileptic fit . |
| 15 | It had a 6.8 Chrysler engine , an aluminium body , and he drove it very fast . |
| 16 | Theodora noticed he had a slight Norfolk accent and no trace of nervousness or pomposity . |
| 17 | President Clinton had a lousy May , in both domestic and foreign policy . |
| 18 | Hodgkiss 's manner displeased Frederica ; he had a mannered Oxford voice , elided words , and used the pronoun " one " frequently . |
| 19 | Well before 1880 , Wesleyan Methodists had a thriving Sunday School and some form of regular public worship in the Strand-on-the-Green area , but due to the generosity of the Duke of Devonshire , a large site in Sutton Court Road was made available to the Methodists , who raised funds and built a substantial Hall in the centre of that site , opened in 1880 and used for Sunday School and public worship ; followed , in 1902 , by the erection of a Manse on the southern flank . |
| 20 | He had a classic Rickenbacker and you could really hear what he was playing . |
| 21 | In 1840 the family had a black Newfoundland bitch called Néo ( perhaps this name influenced Du Camp 's memory of Mme Schlesinger 's Newfoundland ) . |
| 22 | Duncan Cameron beat Brendan Mellor 9–3 9–4 9–6 , Billy White had a walk-over Craig Mahoney , Robbie Robinson defeated Alan Poots 9–2 9–3 9–1 , Trevor McKinlay overcame Danny McNally 9–3 9–4 9–5 and Ian Hackney defeated Andy Horne 7–9 9–4 9–0 9–2 . |
| 23 | ‘ I remember you had a lovely Pembroke table — I coveted that . ’ |
| 24 | The lone elderly group as a whole had a median RNR level of 110 per cent but as Table 5.4 shows , there were clear differences between men and women in every age-group . |
| 25 | ‘ Funny place to have an office — I thought they had a main HO in Basle , thirty minutes down the autobahn from Freiburg . ’ |
| 26 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 27 | He had a huge Beethoven head of black curls , a brown face scorched with wrinkles by an unrelenting sun , small dark eyes and a smile like a slice of water melon , which showed a lot of gold fillings . |
| 28 | After going to church I had a whole Sunday on Tiree , Snoopy-like with the moped . |
| 29 | Following the painful and not yet complete absorption of Nixdorf , Siemens ' product line is a mishmash of iAPX-86 , 68000 family and MIPS Computer Systems Inc R-series processors , and Siemens fabricates the R-series , but the company also had a long-standing OEM relationship with Apollo Computer Inc that continued after that company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard . |
| 30 | Some versions substituted for the front pair a .5 Browning heavy machine gun , and some jeeps had a single Vickers fitted in such a way that the driver could operate it . |