Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had this [noun] " in BNC.

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1	I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit .
2	Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye .
3	How long you had this thing then ?
4	So we had this idea of getting other people to buy it with us . ’
5	So we had this agreement I would al arrive in a removal van just as assembly finished to start the lessons in the morning and then my removal man would come back and pick me up again at twelve o'clock so that I could then do the two-man jobs .
6	So they had this girl which they showed er , where they had to break all the bone up under here
7	Cleo Huggins made a tree that had another little notch on top , so it had this kind of Arabic feel .
8	Thought well I had this fire on so , I gets up to go through and make myself a l you know a drink before going to bed and I put my 'jamas on and dressing gown .
9	Well she had this cup for him , there was no handle on it and she knew it was the dog 's so
10	‘ Well they had this sale of nylons twenty-eight cents below what I usually pay .
11	And then we had this man that used to come from India and he was called the Viceroy of India .
12	And then we had this pig woman who , who erm who wore men 's clothes and a big cap and she had a horse and cart .
13	And then erm , then they had this thing called Niff , which was water , and they came round spraying all of us .
14	when Carolyn was working there they had this intruder .
15	Then he had this roll of notes .
16	Yet they had this sort of erm this sort of feeling about them that they created themselves , that they were sort of cock of the rock , within a shipyard .

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