Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] had this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah um I , I had spaghetti bolognaise and er I ha , and I had this cheese thing last night . |
| 2 | Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision . |
| 3 | Well when you say cake , do n't get the wrong ideas , erm my idea of a cake , the vision that I had of a , a three tier cake , came to me as I was striding home from a meeting across The Downs and I had this vision of a three tier cake . |
| 4 | Well I did , I took it , I took it out and said , alright when I went and enquired , I said well I would normally have a cheque book now cos I 'm not always in the bank , and I had this slip to say I do n't need one will come automatically he said oh yes , but that breaking down is hopeless , then I should fill it in now and I 'll take it . |
| 5 | Well I was out there watering at time scares was on and I had this letter and planes did come over and I laid me ho hosepipe down , I mean you know so he would n't be able |
| 6 | that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service |
| 7 | From there and I had this telescope . |
| 8 | And now that was the attitude that that that they they had that er a lot of them , not not everybody of course that just and she had this attitude , erm anybody that had lost their baby were lucky , you see . |
| 9 | " And she had this baby and it had a birthmark like a cat 's face on its stomach . " |
| 10 | Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time |
| 11 | Anyway , they all came in and we had this instant party which was very pleasant . |
| 12 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | Right and they had this bit they 're in these white sailor 's uniform and they 're stripping the gloves off which was really uninteresting but they all looked really , you know , smart and they were saluting . |
| 14 | And the studio floor was covered with meat , and they had this dog they 'd starved for three days with contact mics all over its stomach … and they were recording him eating the meat ! |
| 15 | He collected a group of protective converts , and he had this knack of making even the most reasonable request look like persecution . |
| 16 | And he had this theatre the panopticon and er |
| 17 | And he had this kind of |
| 18 | and he had this handle , a and er they were saying , we 'll need to get ourself a handle , |
| 19 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 20 | But I had this polyneuritis coming on and I gr gradually went paralysed . |
| 21 | It had never been done before , but I had this premonition , and of course it proved true . ’ |
| 22 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 23 | And I ca n't remember how it first came up , but we had this argument . |
| 24 | Craig : ‘ Yeah , but they had this element where they could write classic pop chart songs , and then again they could write ten minute mad songs as well . |
| 25 | But they had this goalkeeper , do you remember him , his name was Thomasescu , he was about ten foot two , eyes of blue , and he stopped everything , Kevin Hector had a go , Alan Clarke , they all did , even Peter Shilton in goal . |
| 26 | The burgess might have no land at all in the fields ; but he had this right to graze his cattle after Lammas over any man 's lands , freely and wherever he liked . |
| 27 | But he had this thing about us [ seven brothers — two in Jamaica — and two sisters ] concentrating more and more on school work . ’ |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |