Example sentences of "they had a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a history of hearing loss for an average of 18 months . |
| 2 | Our Rally was just super — more people than before — But what they did n't know was that they had a treat in store : The National Display Team came for the afternoon To show their special item — we were all over the moon ! |
| 3 | There was no violation of the code because they had a bit of fun out there on the field . |
| 4 | Last time they had a bit of difficulty organizing the rota . |
| 5 | They had a bit of luck against Portsmouth starting with the first goal which spun off Symons but Chrissy Allen and his team mates worked hard and deserved everything they got … |
| 6 | They had a bit of luck against Portsmouth starting with the first goal which spun off Symons but Chrissy Allen and his team mates worked hard and deserved everything they got … |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | They had a half-acre of garden , which Helen had planned and sedulously cultivated with shrubs and trees , and a plot for vegetables and fruit . |
| 9 | They had a choice of alleys . |
| 10 | In the past they had a degree of self-doubt because many realized that they owed their position to factors other than merit . |
| 11 | They , they had a documentary on Metros apparently and the Me they said that Metros of a certain period for about , I think from his period sort of A registration , B registration , Y registration they 're absolute rubbish apparently . |
| 12 | They had a drink before dinner sitting in a bay window , watching dusk creep up on Dunkery Beacon . |
| 13 | Carter had told the police at the time they had a row over money and his wife had walked out , never to return . |
| 14 | Maybe they had a sense of adventure . |
| 15 | These natives , they certainly respected the old , they had a sense of family , you had to grant it . |
| 16 | However , on their second and final day they had a change of fortune and headed for the ferry with an excellent catch of 109 trout averaging over 2 lbs each . |
| 17 | Before Linfield equalised they had a couple of efforts . |
| 18 | I I think you were all here listening to the erm pensioners before you were they were talking about their ideas which were also our ideas in our er report on the designated ownership of , of the pension funds and in particular they had a couple of ideas which you may have heard about having the word pension in the in the names , just technical points , er pension in the names of er of the funds and and people who were er giving advice on behalf of them . |
| 19 | They had a couple of people round , but no no nibbles , or I think , yes , I think somebody a silly offer because of course all the property pages and places like that , Daily Telegraph are urging everybody , go on put in an offer for a house , put in a silly offer ! |
| 20 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 21 | They had a problem about chickens in that programme tonight . |
| 22 | Other fathers were often unemployed and jealous of a child bringing home a weekly wage : understandable if they had a daughter like Dolly Ashby : |
| 23 | They had a reputation as healers , good lords who possessed the secrets of both heaven and earth . |
| 24 | Moreover , landlords were restrained by the knowledge that they would attract good tenants only if they had a reputation for fairness . |
| 25 | Most of the moneylenders and pawnbrokers were Jewish and they had a reputation for meanness . |
| 26 | They had a conversation of sorts with the two inebriates who had laughed at Joe 's opening remarks to them . |
| 27 | In 1989 they had a deficit of £9,000 on a turnover of £85,000 . |
| 28 | They had a thing for brown : brown robes , brown carpets , brown rice . |
| 29 | Two men had been left behind , marooned on his orders for mutiny : they had a supply of wine and hardtack , and guns and shot ; but when other , later expeditions entered the Bay they found no trace of them . |
| 30 | His grandparents were bankers in Switzerland , his parents had a luxury home on Lake Geneva and later on they had a flat in London and another in Paris . |