Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 2 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 3 | ‘ The midwife disappeared and I had an overwhelming desire to push , which I tried to fight . |
| 4 | After I had arranged to meet Jack on the following Wednesday , the Masons left for home , and I had an early dinner with my parents . |
| 5 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 6 | I said I did I said and I had an awful job to get it out again . |
| 7 | It 's late and I have an early start . ’ |
| 8 | Erm one from Paddy and I have an official letter er apologizing for not being able to be here . |
| 9 | And I have an uneasy feeling that this stance is becoming a handicap in the modern world , like not being computer-literate . |
| 10 | What , why have you put down that you have your regional accent and I have an Irish accent ? |
| 11 | And I find that my father , who was old too , at the time substituted for the father and I have an excellent relationship with my son ! |
| 12 | Add a page printer like the HP LaserJet , Canon A1 or one of the Ricoh-based products to a good word processing packages such as WordPerfect , Microsoft Word , Wordcraft or the latest incarnation of Samna and you have an instant solution . |
| 13 | Why do n't I do the first half and you have an early night , and I 'll wake you at two o'clock ? ’ , knowing full well how awful it is to be woken out of a deep sleep at 2am to start work . |
| 14 | Ye 're a Catholic and you have an incestuous relationship … ’ |
| 15 | If there is plenty of space in your garden , and you have an equal amount of spare time at your disposal , it would be marvellous to allocate a large area of your garden solely to growing flowers for pressing . |
| 16 | Combine it with the cheap , readily available heroin and cocaine on the streets and you have an explosive mix . |
| 17 | Launch such shock-screens through the vapour many times a second , and you have an ideal swept-volume for displaying 3-D pictures . |
| 18 | I gave her another bottle of Arg Nit LM1 with less alcohol in it and she had an excellent response for 10 days , then the pains returned so she stopped the remedy and she was well for two weeks . |
| 19 | Eva was never afraid to speak her mind , and she had an uncanny knack of putting her finger right on a problem , much to some people 's discomfiture . |
| 20 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
| 21 | It was n't fair that your grandmother left her fortune to him instead of sharing it with you just because he 's a man and she had an old-fashioned prejudice that women should n't own money . |
| 22 | She had accepted his invitation under false pretences , and that was deception — and she had an instinctive feeling that Ven was a man who would abhor deception — and would take her apart if he ever found out . |
| 23 | And she had an incoherent sense that he and she together were being pushed in squares of black-and-white across the game board , and she did n't want to comply with the games masters by speaking aloud , let alone complaining , of the antagonisms they orchestrated . |
| 24 | Charlotte replied that she was going to Wiltham and she had an important interview . |
| 25 | The high spirits surrounding her were infectious and she had an insane desire to giggle . |
| 26 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 27 | We had a thing what we called a hay-strewer ; and we had an old horse that we put in this hay-strewer . |
| 28 | And er the cars then of course were all painted in , there were no cellulose paint , we had a paint shop there but er it , and we had an old painter who used to paint the cars in enamel and they were an awful lot of work on them . |
| 29 | And we had an irate call from a listener , er was it yesterday or the day before , saying , I want you to ring me . |
| 30 | If the hon. Gentleman had his way and we had an independent Scotland , we would have four votes instead of 10 and our influence in being able to fight for the interests of Scotland 's farmers would be less . |