Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me .
2 That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er
3 In Scotland we have our own particular marital madness .
4 For several minutes she had nothing more to say .
5 In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise .
6 Just at the moment she had her own anxieties without being expected to worry about other people 's .
7 And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk .
8 What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine .
9 So And then of course we had our own thrashing mill and we did our own thrashing but it was great fun down the glen when they got the thrashing mill in .
10 Moreover , as interpreters of animal behaviour we have our own convenience to consider ; to dissolve species ( and human societies too , as in classical economics ) into uniformly egoistic atoms offers much the best prospect of finding simple laws to apply to them .
11 ROBBIE I had it all worked out , did n't I. Wrong again .
12 Once a week bath night , now we do all these dirty jobs , because next door she had her own coal Lashmere cooking you see , and we had to make do with wood , and that entails cutting it ourselves , so our weekend , we worked Saturday mornings ; Sunday used to the day we had to do all the cottage work .
13 Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town .
14 Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly .
15 Recently I 've worked in jazz with John McLaughlin ( her partner ) — and Marielle she has her own projects . ’
16 Sunnyside Road , and erm , it were it was good accommodation we had our own bathroom and toilet er but again accommodation was cramped , we had no spare room
17 The weaker often needs to copy the stronger — for every one of her foreign bombing campaigns conducted with supreme arrogance and ruthless certainty he had his own dirty little war on distant barren islands , his own vicious murders on the Rock .
18 No doubt she had her own share of secrets , but no-one would suspect her .
19 Normally we 'd buy our meals from the downstairs kitchen , but for breakfast we had our own food so we did n't have to get up till late .
20 He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common .
21 It would seem that this director was flying in the authority 's private , twice daily , shuttle to the site ( being a wartime airfield it has its own landing strip ) when one of the wheels fell off as the under carriage was being lowered .
22 ‘ I felt it was time you had your own . ’
23 Any time you have something such as the Rodney King incident on video tape for the entire nation to see , and the jurors somehow arrive at a verdict of not guilty , it is obvious that the system is not based on truth or justice at all .
24 ‘ It is time we had our own national identity , ’ he said in Sydney .
25 Er when development schemes are put before us , or put before districts , it is possible to er to include a scheme which is designed to be a calmer scheme and in fact we have our own advice notes on roads and res residential areas that we hope to advise developers on that .
26 ‘ At EMI we had our own recording studio .
27 Like most of the lakes of Switzerland it has its own character .
28 In fact he had his own office and a considerably larger area of carpet than anyone in Berebury suspected .
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