Example sentences of "[pers pn] and have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She recognised me and had some idea I wanted to do a story about her on York station . |
2 | Tell you the truth , I 'm sick to death of the lot of it , but I ca n't think of anything to do with it that wo n't have my old man haunting me and have other people 's feelings hurt . |
3 | ‘ After I went to immigration ’ , recalls Rita , ‘ and I told them I was separated because my husband abused me , I thought they would look down on me and have more sympathy , and see what they can do . |
4 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
5 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
6 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
7 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
8 | I mean actually decentralizing the power , by having groups of Ward Councillors , on an area basis , actually having the power decentralized to them and having open meetings in various parts of the City where you 've got the nine or twelve Councillors from three or four wards who 'd actually have a lot of power delegated to them , and so we would try and put power downwards . |
9 | ‘ And I only wish that I was family and so could be of help to you and had some rights to see you . |
10 | Always short of money , Pound in the twenties found one outlet after another closed to him and had great difficulty making ends meet . |
11 | Casabona denied the offences and said the girl willingly had sex with him and had several chances to leave the car . |
12 | Martia was aged twenty-two at the time we spoke to her and had two children : Sasha , sixteen months and Tanya , two months . |
13 | Some see it and have sound explanations , like one Magar lady in rural west central Nepal who gave a ten-minute lecture to me on the problems of the transference of fertility from forest to arable land , and changing uses of crop residues with increasing population pressure , that would have stood up well in a graduate seminar . |
14 | ‘ You ca n't leave it and have this thing festering about his mother . ’ |
15 | It is in no sense a rival body to the National Institute for the Deaf but works in active co-operation with it and has direct representation there on . |
16 | But very occasionally we used to get somebody who wanted to talk to us and had good reason not to talk to the Feds or Charlie , and the simplest thing was to slip him into Canada and cite the OldCommonwealth-Pals Act . |
17 | We are in danger of forgetting that it is God we are talking about : the God who created us , the God who sustains us and has sovereign rights over us . |