Example sentences of "[unc] [pers pn] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a very very hard time just to look after my ill daughter , and I was trying to get help from everybody , but er I had a tremendous help er the neighbours were very good with me , the relations , my husband 's friends at work , er and er my own sisters and my brothers and their wives and my , my mum and dad , so I had a lot of support from everybody . |
| 2 | and er I have a real problem with using my left hand . |
| 3 | Er I have a great sympathy for for that lady . |
| 4 | There was er y you had er you had a certain amount to make every day . |
| 5 | Street , yes , because er you went er you had a marvellous thing called Nature study , come geography , come everything , where you went for walk . |
| 6 | Er , also , we do n't forget that er , we , whilst people say to me , er we had a good year on the P S G last year and we 've had some good settlements , perhaps over the year , better than average , in the East Midlands , on the P S G. But we have so much catching up to do . |
| 7 | But that was good fun , there were eighteen of us , from eight different countries er Americans and Canadians and Australians and New Zealanders and Dutch and Swiss and English and er we had a good time , and then we and went and did mountain biking in Katmandu |
| 8 | I may be bragging but it er we had a wonderful day ! |
| 9 | And each of the places er where we got the supply of tins , er we had a little van that went out to deliver the tins and we delighted as boys , going out , carrying the two tins er into the place . |
| 10 | And er we had a wooden shed it blew down in a gale so my Nana , she bought us a shed |
| 11 | Excuse me excuse me boys we have er we have a rare opportunity here to have er a bring the sales meeting to an end where we will resume in the sub-committee , the third party in the sales office users sub-committee |
| 12 | It 's not er a really a teaching which er is important , it 's just that they know that er we have a Sikh assembly and since then er I have found er they have a type of great moral courage , they 're proud of themselves . |
| 13 | They did in fact get a horse erm and er they had a small carriage , er and er a horse made the odd er visit up the line , from time to time . |
| 14 | we who maybe only had two or three tenants , to these collection agencies so you concentrated their focus onto er they had a common target all of a sudden |
| 15 | Came back door , I opened the door and er he had a big holdall you know |
| 16 | I believe that 's something that needs to be looked at and if the government were prepared to embark on a review of auditing er generally then that is something that I think there is some useful point in pursuing further er it 's interesting that er er erm when Bingham examined this point at paragraph three er point three nine in his report er he has a long paragraph er discussing these matters and er he says that er he at the end of the day he does n't come to a concluded view er although he does er acknowledge the fact that there are many people er depositors or example , share holders and employees who might have an interest in a particular company . |
| 17 | Er , er Mr might have added that er the village hall management committees which er he has a great affection would not be unhappy if they had the sum of five hundred and one thousand one hundred and thirteen pounds with which to provide sources , er resources for the communities that he represents . |
| 18 | I wo n't say soup kitchens because they were n't that at all , I mean , they were n't as civili You had a civilized meal , I know you sang grace before it , and said grace afterwards , but you had knifes , forks and spoons and chapel china . |
| 19 | But I had , I had a go I had a good cup of tea before . |
| 20 | The A S L E N F , they were a different they had a kno they had a sectional council of their own you see , for local men . |
| 21 | We have one of th we have a la we have a large jar of coffee of that a week , and we have er a jar and a half of jam a week . |
| 22 | Erm I have a sneaking suspicion that , that the area in they focus on and it it 's the obvious was to think about it is Resurrection . |
| 23 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 24 | When erm you have a lower number . |
| 25 | erm We had a big screen and the atmosphere was absolutely tremendous — right up to the last minute as you said , with three points in it , it was very tense . |
| 26 | Erm we had a full load you know , in the air before the Americans er were three quarters of the way through . |
| 27 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 28 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 29 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 30 | I think that erm we have a great role to play in international agencies , in people going out to the developing world to teach through education , to perhaps change attitudes in rural development where , as we know , greater prosperity tends to influence people to have fewer children , and since many of the reasons for having large families is to ensure survival , so that the agricultural plot is taken over , the family continues to work , the active group can field the older group , there is less need for that now . |