Example sentences of "[pers pn] have this thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had this thing in my mind that she had to be in a place where I could get to her and she would be well looked after . ’ |
| 2 | Why do n't I get back to you when I have this thing up and running ? ’ |
| 3 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 4 | She had this thing that if it had been a Nigerian boy , the mother would be here saying " I 'm sorry my son has got your daughter pregnant . |
| 5 | How long you had this thing then ? |
| 6 | You have this thing about this dead man . |
| 7 | And then erm , then they had this thing called Niff , which was water , and they came round spraying all of us . |
| 8 | He has this thing about weight , he 's a bit overweight himself . |
| 9 | He has this thing about going bareback , though . |
| 10 | But he had this thing about us [ seven brothers — two in Jamaica — and two sisters ] concentrating more and more on school work . ’ |
| 11 | A little gig It was n't a gig either , he did have a gig but he had this thing , a sort of long shaped er What would you call it ? |