Example sentences of "and [pers pn] had [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me . |
| 2 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |
| 3 | So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck . |
| 4 | Your reception was not courteous , but the Prince and I had other matters to discuss . |
| 5 | Whether I have conveyed anything of the delight we took in his company I do n't know and his exact words may have been even better but the magic of his style returns to me and I had another giggle writing this . |
| 6 | They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before . |
| 7 | Er and I had three shillings change . |
| 8 | Well I did , I took it , I took it out and said , alright when I went and enquired , I said well I would normally have a cheque book now cos I 'm not always in the bank , and I had this slip to say I do n't need one will come automatically he said oh yes , but that breaking down is hopeless , then I should fill it in now and I 'll take it . |
| 9 | I hate to say something I do n't mean , and I had enough sense left to know I might not be prepared to keep my side of the contract tomorrow . |
| 10 | Suppose the Universe really was like that , and you had two astronauts leaving the Earth at the same time in opposite directions , one from the North Pole , the other from the South . |
| 11 | And you had some work to do at home on that . |
| 12 | They were beautiful and she had two others did n't she ? |
| 13 | And she had that paint did n't she ? |
| 14 | She had winkled out of him that he got the story from Georgie and she had much trouble persuading him it was a joke . |
| 15 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 16 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 17 | She would never mock it , he was certain of that , and he could not believe that she would be shocked , because she was far too experienced and sensible to waste energy on such a useless emotion ; but it would probably distress her , and she had enough distress to absorb without his adding to it . |
| 18 | And we had terrible job getting a contract off him . |
| 19 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
| 20 | One was the philosophic opposition of the Right-to-Life groups in this country ; and they said that this was a foot in the door , the first step down the road towards active and involuntary euthanasia , and we had that argument to counter and that group to deal with , and even after countering the argument , we still had the group to deal with . |
| 21 | And where ag erm either erm a young mother or even older women who did n't have a husband to support them , then we would try and we had one woman coming in and saying , she had six children and er her husband had gone off , and her giro had n't been sorted out . |
| 22 | Last week a husband took his wife out for a drive and we had 45 minutes to get the place ready , wine chilled , chandeliers , and have a lobster dinner ready on the table by the time they got back . |
| 23 | ‘ Unfortunately , the referee completely lost it and we had three players sent off . ’ |
| 24 | Congresses and committees did not scrutinize military funding and expenditure , and they had little opportunity to discuss military actions : the government did not announce the ventures in Chad and Uganda ; nor did they disclose training given to Chaddian , Palestinian and perhaps other freedom-fighters ( Tunisian , for example ) . |
| 25 | But taking up their suggestions and using their materials was always optional ; and they had little power to change the general attitude of the public towards the ‘ non-academic ’ . |
| 26 | It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time . |
| 27 | There were no other petitioners waiting , and they had routine work to do . |
| 28 | And they had sufficient imagination to see that if the sea could curve one way , then it could curve the other way also . |
| 29 | Bowler hat , little moustache and spats and when you came through the shed , my God , nobody slacked cos he had eyes everywhere and the Traffic Superintendent was , he was directly responsible to him erm then erm retired and erm then retired during the war and they had another fella come in from he came from away . |
| 30 | And they had three wagons turn up . |