Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it had a " in BNC.

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1 I mean , when I , when I was a kid I got , erm , I was given an Australian doll baby , and which was funny cos it had an amazing sun tan and dark blue eyes and blonde hair , like typical Ozzie child .
2 ‘ Ah , ’ was all that Maidstone said to this but it had a knowing sound to it .
3 And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion .
4 After about three weeks it was noticeable that it had a problem with its mouth .
5 It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’
6 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 .
7 It was 9in to 10in long and it had a jagged edge like a saw blade . ’
8 The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state .
9 It was a Madonna one and it had a bit of other stuff on it on the other side .
10 And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years .
11 ‘ I do n't think anyone let it in , I 'd guess the door was open or it had a key . ’
12 Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Menzies , was preparing to clear his desk for one last time and transfer to Sir Hugh 's enormous office overlooking Whitehall , an office so secret that it had a private door and staircase that could not be overlooked .
13 It was rectangular and it had a lid , like a shoe box , but it was longer .
14 It was too big and it had a fur collar .
15 Its mouth was open and it had an expression on its face of someone who is going to have a lot of difficulty explaining what they have just seen , especially to themselves .
16 and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs
17 They bought a tumbledown Victorian terraced house near the Elephant and Castle , cheap because it had an old man as a sitting tenant on the top floor .
18 It 's thought Becky Blandford 's hat came off as she fell and it 's not certain whether it had a chin strap , like the one she 's wearing here .
19 boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with .
20 It was loud , aggressive and it had a good tune , ’ says Peter Thompson , head of distribution at Red Rhino .
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