Example sentences of "[adv] and [pers pn] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The window blinds were down and he had a feeling that he was behind the scenes in a theatre . |
2 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
3 | He waded ashore and we had a planning conference on the shingle . |
4 | er well last year we brought the Dutch over and we had a competition with them . |
5 | My daughter 's bringing the children over and I 've a lot to do . ’ |
6 | panicked by the snow which he had n't been expecting , he threw everything over and he had a job finding it all on the other side . |
7 | ' Yes , sir , I have thought deeply and I have a plan . |
8 | I set off and we had a taxi because it was terrible and I thought oh well , we had a lovely weekend , I 'm not going to er spoil it by being soaking wet getting to Piccadilly station . |
9 | ‘ He tied me up and he had a knife . |
10 | and you 're at A , let's say , let's say , North is that way , okay , and you you set this up and you have a look , you say , where 's that lighthouse , oh it 's on a bearing of forty five degrees , and a lot later when you 've sailed sort of past the lighthouse , or the lighthouse is behind you , you take a bearing , and you still go around clockwise , |
11 | Then you start to add some flourishes — push the front tips of the skis almost together , the backs out , bend your knees in slightly and you have a snow plough . |
12 | A handful of thundering live shows , demos , radio and TV sessions later and they had a deal with U2 's Mother Records . |
13 | If they were grubby , you were told to put your hand out and you had a cut with cane , a punishment which was then meted out to the other hand , followed by the order — ‘ Go and wash ’ . |
14 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
15 | I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts : |
16 | Her uniform shirt was crisp and her red hair had been tied back and she had a hint of an overbite . |
17 | Oh , I hope it lifts this fog today and we have a bit of sun . |
18 | As usual , the team worked hard and well and we had a lot of fun and good fellowship , which helps to dull the pain of aching backs and feet ! |
19 | Then , course then they used to hav when the man stood in green , I knew a fella named which we was talking about a little while ago and he had a pair of lady 's stockings which he used to put over his shoes to stop the grain going in and some of these people in the and , they used to have erm , like er string soles with like calico boots and they used to tie them on tight . |
20 | I started fishkeeping almost a year ago and I have a 3ft community tank , which is filtered by a Fluval 203 external filter . |
21 | And we had about three boards in here and we had a board in there . |
22 | I mean there 's a strong Music Department here and we have a number of music students who come into the chorus for the while that they 're in the university — they often sing in the university choir , I think , as well and play in the orchestra , or perhaps the Meeting House Choir , and a number of members of faculty , I think , as well sing with us . |
23 | Now I 'm here and I have a place too and nothing 's going to change that . |
24 | He 's about my height but he 's filled out a bit since he came here and he has a kind of stoop now which makes him look smaller and older than he is . |
25 | One day she sat here and she had a T-shirt on Joyce |
26 | Her parents see her regularly and she has a circle of friends . |
27 | Daddy was there and we had a drink . |
28 | Well Margaret guided us to ruddy Conway in er , anyway , we got there and we had a bit of a bar snack did n't we ? |
29 | In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there . |
30 | There was always somebody there and we had a television set and rest room there , and there was always about twenty or thirty girls in it . |