Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well according to the er Express I just had a look at , they reckon it 's on but for about half the original sum .
2 ‘ It probably had a lot to do with his job but he was a fella who always had a word for you , ’ said Mr Lavery .
3 ALTHOUGH LIVING IN WALLINGTON SHE ALREADY HAD A SENSE OF HER ROOTS IN WALES .
4 This latter was a secular convent which always had a lady of the Habsburg family as abbess .
5 As he needed a fairly high percentage of oxygen he soon had a head box too — a clear perspex box placed over his head to concentrate the oxygen .
6 I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th .
7 The Department was reorganised into five geographical districts , each managed by an assistant director who also had a responsibility for particular service areas .
8 Also until the 17th , Adrian Piper who also had a room in ‘ Dislocations ’ presents ‘ Decide who you are ’ ( a daunting demand ) at John Weber .
9 That left Smith free to deliver the coup de grace to Glyn Charles , the only other helmsman who still had a chance of beating him .
10 And as we got up into the classes we also had a woodwork er centre , and metal shop there .
11 I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march .
12 I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march .
13 I will , says I. I near had a heart attack thinkin' of you down here under his nose ! ’
14 Last week I even had a letter from Yugoslavia asking for a donation towards Disabled Esperantists !
15 ‘ My beautiful silver-haired Jenna had grown into a woman , a desirable woman who already had a sort of mystical hold on me . ’
16 So so so I say that first because we have in the past had people who felt worried by this attitude , they felt you know that they really they were people who perhaps had a background in the National Trust and who really felt that it was their job to say , oh no do n't touch that .
17 On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute .
18 In addition three patients who already had a diagnosis of pernicious anaemia were excluded from this analysis because they were already receiving B 1 2 treatment .
19 He looked imploringly at Connors , but it 's no use pleading with a man who just had a machine gun go off in his face .
20 We are not sure whether Jasper Lyon is an elderly gentleman reminiscing about World War Two or a young man who just had a bee in his bonnet as a schoolboy about flying a Stirling bomber rather than becoming a Spitfire pilot .
21 The self-contained flat was eventually let to Raymond Ray , a dancer who also had a talent for making costumes and produced a couple of skirts for Elinor Moynihan .
22 That year 's Annual General Meeting reported a male membership of 200 and 69 ladies who now had a ceiling of 80 .
23 I 'm amazed how difficult it is occasionally for a murderer to despatch his victim : in the Thames Valley we once had a case where no fewer than twenty-three vicious stab-wounds were insufficient to complete the sorry business .
24 It is equally notable that in four other instances , children who later had a choice stayed on with grandparents , rather than returning to their parental home .
25 In Virginia Cowles ' account they also had a 3-tonner with supplies and extra men inside .
26 Gandhi himself once had a room in West Kensington , and the notorious landlord Rachman kept a flat for the young Mandy Rice-Davies in the next street ; Christine Keeler came for tea .
27 A staff of 1,400 employees of the North-Eastern Railway worked there , not to mention men of the North British and Caledonian railways who also had a part of the station .
28 However , as a milking animal it always had a problem which is still apparent today in some animals : the udders were frequently so pendulous that they were prone to injury and made suckling awkward ( baby beef calves were bucket-reared ) , and later were a problem for machine milking .
29 The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined .
30 ‘ The wife of one of the guys who lives in Lowestoft had sent out a video of his son 's birthday party which also had a bit of my Help programme for Anglia TV on it .
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