Example sentences of "they have a big [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well I says to her , I says what , do wo n't they have a big gap ?
2 I mean , they had a big influence , the Brontes , right up as far as modren days , no doubt about it .
3 And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage .
4 I suppose it would be when they well when they dressed that was the night they had a big celebration was n't it .
5 They must have been renewed somewhere about the erm I would say roughly round about nineteen twenty seven , twenty eight and that 's been renewed as lock gates , cos they took 'em out and they had a big crane come from Rotterdam to lift them up and er things do now well that 's surprising what they do do now .
6 This time they had a big Rottweiler with them .
7 She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see .
8 maybe that 's one of women 's traditions , I believe they had a big part to pla play in it .
9 They had a big hit around the time and the shop was always full of these kids who were really into that gay , shallow disco — stuff like ‘ The Hustle ’ .
10 And the farm has , last three years has lost a lot of money and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they 've now sold and er they just sort of decided they wanted to make the , they had a big barn , a big white barn which was a real old barn and he wanted to make that into a house .
11 they had a big family
12 it was just they had a big warehouse
13 He said they had a big swimming pool with the house .
14 I did n't know they had a big library .
15 You might also ask them if they had a big hi-jacking at the end of May .
16 So they had a big argument downstairs , this woman plod and the others and I said to John : ‘ Look .
17 They have a big stockmarket in their own backyard .
18 They have a big roll a big mat up .
19 Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity .
20 People have to earn your respect and just because they have a big desk , long title or an impressive uniform it does n't mean you should automatically give way to their judgements and decisions .
21 People have to earn your respect and just because they have a big desk , long title or an impressive uniform it does n't mean you should automatically give way to their judgements and decisions .
22 They have a big house .
23 Only tiny amounts of essential oils are used but they have a big effect
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