Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pers pn] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather .
2 It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off !
3 Yeah I I had a vague recollection of you drinking Newcastle Brown sometime and quite liking it .
4 It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole .
5 Herrick tells me you have a first draft two weeks away from completion .
6 Your answers show me you have a wicked heart .
7 If somebody was interviewed by him and had a bad time , I can tell you I had a bad time , well to me it was a bad time , when I with him and he saw he spoke with me .
8 I do n't have to tell you , but for you I have a special place in my heart .
9 She always always oh she she had a second sight like that , I think she should 've been a doctor if she 'd lived in these this day and age .
10 ‘ Did anyone ever tell you you had a smart mouth ? ’
11 Do not allow yourself to be pushed around by an agency that tells you they have a large number of suitable vacancies and then persists in sending you for jobs which are not within your specifications .
12 I mean we we had a definite offer and it 's all paid much later , that the money is coming and then the committee will get the money back .
13 We we had a great thing tonight at tea did n't we ?
14 See if I was fetching anything or anything like that Oh we had an awfu we we had a big stock er big stock you know .
15 Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy .
16 That 's orange juice and we we had a free sample one year .
17 They told me they had a little house not far away from where I lived , and that Dorothy was expecting a baby — twins , the doctor had said .
18 Between them they had a weekly capacity of 5,500 sacks .
19 He showed her that like him she had a long life-line .
20 POLICE launched a massive hunt for accident victim Christine Jessop — to warn her she had a broken neck .
21 Her widowhood sat lightly on her shoulders , and from what Peggy gathered from her she had a favourite pub .
22 He told her she had a lovely body and when she went to bed with him , she said ( he 'd find out about it anyway and drop her ) :
23 You must not tell her she has a nice bottom , because that 's sexist . ’
24 It 's it 's you do n't forfeit them , it 's safe , but they accumula er they they have a cumulative effect and you pay tax or what
25 The tour was a shock to the system , particularly Gordon 's : back home afterwards , his doctor told him he had a damaged liver .
26 To help him he has a hand-picked team of the country 's most experienced prosecutors .
27 His habit of electioneering from a white Rolls Royce sometimes attracted comment and he told me he had a silver-tipped cane with which to tap at doors of council flats in Fulham , though I was never sure whether to believe him .
28 So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her .
29 Has , for me he has a strong dislike for
30 In the centre of them it has a horny beak , shaped like that of a parrot , capable of delivering a shell-cracking lethal bite .
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