Example sentences of "had a [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WP What do you think of the notion that much of the poetry produced in Eastern Europe as ‘ dissident ’ poetry has had a kind of easy ride because of its political context ? |
| 2 | When someone like Mosse , who 's had a kind of public face , goes wrong , he really beats all . ’ |
| 3 | Since the introduction of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 , this country has had a system of strategic planning and site licensing for waste management . |
| 4 | Could of had a bit of mash and could of had a bit of mashed potato and couple of eggs or something . |
| 5 | Erm we 've had a couple of flat fires . |
| 6 | I 've had a couple of nice chats with the people at GMTV , but I told them I was n't in a hurry to decide what I would do next and frankly I do n't envy the people who are going straight on to another show . ’ |
| 7 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 8 | I 've already had a couple of tentative enquiries . |
| 9 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 10 | Sotheby 's had a couple of rare Currier and Ives lithographs : bidding by phone for the very rare ‘ The life of a hunter . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've only had a couple of abusive ones , and a couple of nasty telephone calls . ’ |
| 12 | Well they , they just you know they they just have this erm craft sort of , they do stall and and they make stuff for the shop they had he had a couple of retail shops , he had a factory yeah I think he said he had fifty two people working for him . |
| 13 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 14 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |
| 15 | It will probably have been sold to you by an insurance broker or insurance company salesman and , at time of buying , you will have had a choice of four different types of investment policy : with profits , unit linked , deposit administration and non-profit policy . |
| 16 | They 'd had a gutful of official lies . |
| 17 | Rains had had a bottle of vichy water in his inside pocket . |
| 18 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 19 | Those of us who 've had a bellyful of over-processed , bland , convenience foods , cardboard crispbreads and diet spreads have much cause to thank Ms Sheila Ferguson , ex-Three Degrees singer and author of a new book , Soul Food . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've had a shock of some kind . |
| 21 | Rusty Conway becomes one of Serena 's patients because he has had a spell of extreme absent-mindedness which made him incapable of carrying out his work . |
| 22 | He is over 55 , married , without education or job training ; furthermore , he has had a spell of registered unemployment , did not work full-time in the 12 months prior to becoming unemployed and lives in a council house . |
| 23 | ‘ So I 've had a run of bad luck . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's had a run of bad luck , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Eight women have had a total of nine vaginal deliveries and none of these women have had inpaired continence after delivery . |
| 26 | Like The Beatles and the Stones and Talcy Malcy McLaren and Bernie ‘ Clash ’ Rhodes and just about everybody who 's had a smidgeon of cool in Britpop , two of Cud were art students . |
| 27 | If effort had counted for anything , we would have had a family of Catholic proportions . |
| 28 | HAVING had a summer of fair-weather golf , competitors in the British Women 's Stroke-Play Championship at Southerness , many of whom had not had to don a sweater in months , were faced with the foulest of conditions over the first two days . |
| 29 | We 've had a lot of young lads in the team and this will allow me to swap things round a bit , ’ added McHale . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've had a lot of conflicting information from over there . |