Example sentences of "had a number [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourth cousins by marriage , the girls had been aware of each other for much longer and had a number of friends in common . |
| 2 | Donna Reed , who had a number of scenes with Clift , said , ‘ When Monty was sober he was a wonderful , sweet , charming man . |
| 3 | He had a number of scenes reshot because he did n't like the way he looked in the original scenes , and by the time he had finished hacking up the picture , it was a complete mess . |
| 4 | The House of Commons had a number of functions , but the elective function of choosing the Cabinet was the " most important " . |
| 5 | But the star , who also had a number of bruises , later discharged himself . |
| 6 | Last year I had a number of problems after perhaps rising too quickly in 1991 , ’ added Rickardsson , runner-up in the world final two years ago . |
| 7 | He did not settle to this life and had a number of activities , including travel to France and Belgium . |
| 8 | I had a number of telephone conversations with him , and an interim letter dated 7 January in which he suggested , or asked me to suggest several possible dates . |
| 9 | We had a number of Koi and Goldfish which had lived together for up to ten years and many were quite large . |
| 10 | According to Salt 's friend , George Bernard Shaw , she refused to sleep with her husband and had a number of affairs with her women friends . |
| 11 | He certainly had a number of absences , but all were explained with notes from his mother or from his doctor . |
| 12 | He also had a number of sores . |
| 13 | AT the outbreak of World War Two in September 1939 Coastal Command still had a number of biplane flying-boats on operations including , Saro Londons , Short Singapores and Supermarine Stranraers . |
| 14 | Although Taylor had a number of players out injured , Hateley was left out for the next match . |
| 15 | This had a number of advantages . |
| 16 | The contract army had a number of advantages for the crown . |
| 17 | A focus upon changing aspects of a rapidly developing local community embracing social , technological and ecological perspectives had a number of advantages in the eyes of the library committee : ( 1 ) they wanted to begin something that was ongoing and to which resources could be added ; |
| 18 | Housing chairman Bob Brady said the scheme had a number of advantages . |
| 19 | Also present , very often , was the choir master of Strasbourg cathedral , whose name was Ignas Plielle so you had a number of musicians , and it was quite nice , because the wife of Baron Dietrich , was also interested in in music . |
| 20 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 21 | The second volume , however , had a number of letters as well as an unfinished play to make the required length . |
| 22 | Instead , I had a number of letters from parents saying : ‘ My son wants to be a satirist when he grows up . |
| 23 | In his defence , Mrs Susan Rodway said that the Marquis had a number of guns , all with licences , which he kept locked in a cupboard in the basement of his home . |
| 24 | The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford . |
| 25 | One was a complicated case in which the client had a number of relatives living nearby , who were said to be always arguing with each other ( including about the client 's care ) . |
| 26 | To be sure , Reagan had a number of strengths . |
| 27 | Rovers suffered from something of a fadeout and we even had a number of home fans who felt inclined to boo . |
| 28 | So from your point of view , despite , presumably you had a number of operations like |
| 29 | For a government committed to radical change , they had a number of disadvantages . |
| 30 | The third Duke of Roxburghe ( 1704–1804 ) , a collector on the grand scale after whom the exclusive bibliophilic Roxburghe Club was named , had a number of tracts concerning Mary Tofts , who perturbed the gynaecologists of her day by claiming to have given birth to a litter of rabbits . |