Example sentences of "had a [noun] or [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've had a decade or more of development corporations and government enterprise zones , and most them seem to have been environmentally brutal . |
| 2 | Even if the convert claims to have had a dream or religious experience , it is likely ( although perhaps not inevitable ) that it fitted in with a world-view with which he was previously acquainted ( through either the written or the spoken word ) , or else , that his experience will be interpreted by a believer in his new world-view . |
| 3 | Oldham manager Joe Royle would make no comment , but his centre forward Graeme Sharp said : ‘ Cambridge adapted better to the windy conditions and could have had a goal or two more . ’ |
| 4 | because he 's had a spell or two at Stowmarket |
| 5 | But she 's very kind and she can be very funny , when she 's had a drink or two . ’ |
| 6 | I 've had a drink or two . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's had a drink or three , that 's all . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Harriet might have had a glass or two that morning but she was n't drunk ! |
| 9 | She 'd had a glass or two of wine , and it had helped to float her off . |
| 10 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 11 | One hundred and seven patients , 102 ( 95% ) of whom had had a vagotomy or partial gastrectomy ( Table I ) , were referred because of suspected rapid gastric emptying as a cause or feature of dumping syndrome and diarrhoea , or both ( Table I ) . |
| 12 | When she 'd had a moment or two to look around Michele said , ‘ Those are the items for exhibition . ’ |