Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 2 | When my brother or I had a fever , my mother or my grandfather used to come here to find leaves or roots to cure it . |
| 3 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 4 | This little sugar plum fairy is either a changeling , or you had an affair with the milkman . |
| 5 | cos if you were stopped or you had an accident |
| 6 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 7 | Before the provision contained in rule 3(7) was enacted , the law governing standing to apply for prerogative orders was , in simplified terms , as follows : a person could apply for certiorari or prohibition provided he or she had a genuine grievance or , in other words , provided the applicant was a person aggrieved by the challenged decision . |
| 8 | A duty solicitor had an obligation to provide advice to persons in custody and , if desired , to make a bail application ; he or she had a discretion to provide advice and representation to defendants , whether or not in custody , in cases involving imprisonable offences , and even in connection with non-imprisonable offences in exceptional cases . |
| 9 | His Offensive Weapons ( Scotland ) Bill would put the onus on the person carrying a knife to prove he or she had a valid reason for doing so . |
| 10 | The factors selected were mean OBS score at time of first assessment , whether the sufferer was singly or doubly incontinent at least once daily , whether he or she engaged in persistent wandering away from home , whether he or she lived alone , and whether he or she had no closely involved informal carer . |
| 11 | If he or she had no children , the Intestacy Rules dictate which relatives will be entitled to inherit . |
| 12 | Similarly , in order for occupation of land to amount to a tenancy , the courts have held that the claimant must show that he or she had the right to , and did , exclude the landlord . |
| 13 | Compared with subjects with little or no periodontal disease , those with gingivitis were at about 23% higher risk , and those with periodontitis or who had no teeth were at about 50% higher risk of dying during follow up . |
| 14 | Men with periodontitis or who had no teeth were about 70% more likely to have coronary heart disease than were men with no periodontal disease . |
| 15 | This compared with 26 per cent of the women without an intimate tie with husband or boyfriend , but who reported a confiding relationship with another person ( seen at least weekly ) , and with 41 per cent of those who had a confidante seen less than weekly or who had no such relationship at all . |
| 16 | Zuwaya enthusiasts of the revolution did sometimes speak of the injustice of unequal distribution of wealth , but like those who attended the Intellectual Seminar in 1970 , they had difficulty in identifying any particular groups of Libyans who suffered as a group , or who had a common interest in pursuing distributive justice : in Benghazi they said , there were Libyan workers who were oppressed , or perhaps Tripoli . |
| 17 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 18 | This would be ideal for any doctor who wished to be a clinical tutor , or who had a special interest in education . |
| 19 | It will be recalled that Section 37 of the Finance Act , 1969 provided for the ascertainment for the purposes of estate duty of the ‘ slice ’ of the property in which the interest of ; beneficiary who was entitled to less than the whole of the in come or who had a joint interest in property which was no income-producing subsisted . |
| 20 | North London-based staff who were not in a category entitled to home relocation allowances , or who had an additional mileage of less than 15 miles were entitled to receive additional commuting costs . |
| 21 | All our kit was strictly numbered and counted , and anybody who was missing a vest or who had an extra T-shirt got kicked or punched . |
| 22 | Er further to what John said about the er , Young Inventor , we were fortunate enough last year to have er our competitor , or we had a , we held a competition locally |
| 23 | Perhaps we had , or we had no idea what they had to offer . |
| 24 | Once upon a time you had a dream — that you lived in a world of simple market forces where everything or everybody had a price or value . |
| 25 | In a spoken message we notice the quality of the voice as well : maybe the speaker 's voice was shaking , or they had a particular accent , or hesitated , or slurred their words . |
| 26 | Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think anyone let it in , I 'd guess the door was open or it had a key . ’ |
| 28 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 29 | Most of his relatives , he said , traded in Bangkok and Singapore now , and everyone had a watch , a radio and money to spend . |
| 30 | Catchy tunes , though , and everyone had a singalong . |