Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] had [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know there might ha , there might have been three hundred ya , three hundred yards of houses semis and detached and they had a bit of land , but all the back of that , that was theirs ! |
| 2 | ‘ She had been so brave and she had a right to know , to set her life in order just like anyone facing death . ’ |
| 3 | Eva was convinced she would get well if she was sensible but she had no intention of spending the rest of her life wrapped in cotton wool . |
| 4 | I was tall and slim but I had an eating disorder and my weight fluctuated wildly according to how I ate . |
| 5 | ‘ We adopted her when she was a few years old but we had a difference of opinion and she left home , ’ said Mr Harrison , a policeman . |
| 6 | The sounds seemed very far off and yet distinct and he had the sensation of a secret , sinister busy-ness , like the scrabbling of mice behind the wainscot . |
| 7 | Our barrack room was warm and we had a stove in the middle which kept us warm in the night . |
| 8 | ‘ Sabine and I had an arrangement . ’ |
| 9 | The road back was easy and she had the chance to look around . |
| 10 | By Christmas eve our singing was practically perfect and we had a repertoire of ten carols in French , German , Spanish and English . |
| 11 | His face was ruddy and lined and he had a nutcracker nose and chin . |
| 12 | Yeah , that 's right and we had the car park last year did n't we ? |
| 13 | Well while he was in hospital his wife had gotten herself pregnant and she had a baby daughter 2nd Jan. 1945 . |
| 14 | And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides . |
| 15 | Where he exceeded expectation and all precedents was in making the ban total , but this clearly was just the element which was negotiable and it had the effect of extending the king 's patronage of both church and laity . |
| 16 | Most of the moneylenders and pawnbrokers were Jewish and they had a reputation for meanness . |
| 17 | LOURDES is a very special place , there I felt humble and I had a realisation that no matter what pain or trouble I had I was by no means alone . |
| 18 | He may have looked like a bank-clerk but he had the heart of a poet , whether he wrote in iambic pentameters or the plain but effective doggerel of the common man . |
| 19 | I 'm convinced Alison was shot because she was white but she had no power in constructing the society they were making a statement against . ’ |
| 20 | The drawers of the desk were all locked but he had no difficulty in finding the right key . |
| 21 | This was right up the top and there were a tiny attic bedroom thing was made into a not very salubrious but it had a cooker and a sink . |
| 22 | That 's right but you had the encouragement , who 's that waving ? |
| 23 | Through an interpreter I replied that things were well and we had no famine . |
| 24 | They looked combative and confident and they had an aggression which , Gooch and Such apart , England too clearly lacked . |
| 25 | Well we only had Epping hospital dear , that 's all we had , there was only Epping and er they were er you know done what they could very good and we had a dentist , oh dentist you had to go er , oh right to Old Harlow , up er |
| 26 | Her response had been poor and she had a resistance to anti-depressants . |
| 27 | She was mentally competent and she had the capacity to decide for herself . |
| 28 | Francis was too fat , his face was podgy and he had a paunch . |
| 29 | ‘ She was very sure of herself , a bit cocky and she had a coldness that just put me off her . ’ |
| 30 | That was in Frankfurt when a meeting over which I had no control went on just too long and I had no chance of making my flight . |