Example sentences of "have a big [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hinchley has a big heart and we need battlers in our current situation . |
| 2 | You can be sure that a woman must have big and thick labia if she has a big mouth and thick lips . |
| 3 | So you 'd had a big breakfast and it 's still normal which implies you 're going to be fine , now |
| 4 | It shows San Carlo to have had a big nose and long ears , features which must have been real as they also appear in several portraits . |
| 5 | Here am I , working for a glamorous journalist in a huge house in Richmond , looking after her brat of a daughter ( four-year-old Charlotte , who has her good moments but is mostly involved in a longstanding game of wear-the-au-pair-to-a-frazzle ) , when my mother needs me just as much to look after her daughter , but does n't have a big house and ca n't afford to pay . |
| 6 | you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses |
| 7 | ‘ He is determined to have a big season and hopes to break into the Great Britain squad for the World Cup final against Australia in October , ’ added Larder . |
| 8 | I know , but years ago you always used to have a big tea and supper |
| 9 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 10 | and it had a big basement and everything on it . |
| 11 | It had a big crew and a full commercial load — wax and mastic and wormwood seed , six bales of carpets and eighty baskets of sulphur , fifty bundles of silk and five hundred oxhides , two hundred barrels of saltpetre and a hundred bales of Syrian soda . |
| 12 | erm We had a big screen and the atmosphere was absolutely tremendous — right up to the last minute as you said , with three points in it , it was very tense . |
| 13 | If you have a big hole but only tiny little voltage then you wo n't get much going through . |