Example sentences of "always had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It probably had a lot to do with his job but he was a fella who always had a word for you , ’ said Mr Lavery . |
| 2 | And he always had a pot of linseed and black Spanish , and we always had to have a drink of this , cos he thought it was fantastic . |
| 3 | We always had a pot of water simmering on the fireplace . |
| 4 | He always had a battle pending on one front and quite often on two at the same time . |
| 5 | We always had a tree at home , and the family congregated — my two uncles and their wives and their one-son-apiece , and Addy my father 's unmarried aunt , darling strict Addy , who had helped to bring me up . |
| 6 | Y'know , I always had a home to go to . |
| 7 | But we still always had a problem finding somewhere to rehearse . |
| 8 | However , as a milking animal it always had a problem which is still apparent today in some animals : the udders were frequently so pendulous that they were prone to injury and made suckling awkward ( baby beef calves were bucket-reared ) , and later were a problem for machine milking . |
| 9 | This latter was a secular convent which always had a lady of the Habsburg family as abbess . |
| 10 | He always had a smile and a friendly word for everyone . |
| 11 | Those young people , well , they did talk a bit loudly and show off , but they always had a smile and a pleasant word , and they did brighten the place up a bit , you could n't deny it . |
| 12 | William George Henry Augustus , Eleventh Marquis of Hulton , always had a pipe in his mouth and he was invariably either filling it , cleaning it out with a metal reaming tool or trying to light it . |
| 13 | ‘ Tom always had a couple of lurcher dogs tagging along at his heels when he was a kid . |
| 14 | Girls were all right and , Marian says , he ‘ always had a fan-club . |
| 15 | And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’ |
| 16 | Burton always had a calm , lofty perspective on his work as an actor . |
| 17 | She was always removed , always had a determination about her and was very matter-of-fact , almost dogmatic . |
| 18 | Pacemaking then was more predictable than now ; in a well-organised handicap someone like Wooderson always had a target just ahead . |
| 19 | During my time as a gamekeeper I almost always had a supply of fresh meat available to give them . |
| 20 | He always had a consciousness of that , as a beautiful woman does . |
| 21 | Keith always had a reason , so we did n't mind that much , but both David and me used to get quite annoyed with Peter . |
| 22 | She always had a sugar daddy . |
| 23 | It was only three minutes down the road , and Jim always had a storehouse of odds and ends . |
| 24 | Hilary Seymour-Strachey had readily agreed , for , though he had not his brother 's absorbing and exclusive interest in money — still , he always had a use for it , and the thought was beginning to occur to him that he might soon have a woman and child to support , in addition to himself . |
| 25 | As a back-up system , the big stick always had a lot going for it . |
| 26 | ‘ Always had a lot of imagination . ’ |
| 27 | The men , Matthew included , always had a strip-wash in the outer scullery . |
| 28 | Always had a penchant for amateur dramatics . ’ |
| 29 | All the managers knew that Karen was on the Committee because she always had a notebook in her hand . |
| 30 | Scotland always had a passion for building three and four story high tenement buildings . |