Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Mr , I I I have many matter to consider in my report , so I let's not widen it even further into this rather wider philosophical matter .
2 Yeah , would you , but a couple of years because John was busy he bought us all tokens , erm , he bought the others tokens from Woolworths and me token from a body shop and we all , and I we had great fun looking and seeing what we wanted to buy with , with the book tokens , er , maybe , maybe I mention it providing we ca n't find anything .
3 After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession .
4 Lot sixty four is er advertising items , records and other bits and pieces for which I have sixty pounds offered , any more at sixty five seventy five , eighty five , ninety five , one hundred ten , one twenty thirty , one forty , one hundred and forty pounds with me , are you all done , one fifty in the middle , one sixty one seventy one hundred and seventy , any more ?
5 Lot forty is the Zonophone advertisement now showing , thank you , Lot forty for which I have eighty pounds offered , ninety , one hundred and ten , one twenty , one thirty one thirty standing , any more at one thirty ?
6 Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent .
7 Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished .
8 ( Hons. ) degree and has taught Maths , English and Social Sciences at both Primary and Middle schools , added to which he has 13 years experience in embalming .
9 Goaded beyond endurance by the reference to the headmaster 's wife , to whom she had that morning sent a boy with a high fever , only to have him sent back with iodine on his knuckles , Glenda Grower chimed in again in her rich , ringing voice :
10 I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him .
11 Mm but mind you I had that headband did n't I ?
12 Remember I told you he had that job checking street-lamps ?
13 However most of those for whom we had relevant information did feel strain , often considerable , and often very acute .
14 She says that the bailiffs came very early and told everyone they had 10 minutes to get out .
15 When they arrived at the house , they saw a man whom they had good reason to suppose to be the assailant washing blood from himself .
16 Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters .
17 Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover .
18 The guy was taking on ten people at o he he had ten people working for him in one day .
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