Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back .
2 While you co-operate with them , the Iranian government will no doubt overlook your political leanings — and I 've little doubt they 'll be aware of them .
3 And I 've got a fourth board on exercise and I 've two boards I have n't started .
4 But I do n't like it here , and I 've good reason for going .
5 and I 've long feet you see and if I put have me feet straight up like that it er it 's pressure on it
6 Well we never use them and I 've another reason for wanting rid of them .
7 I 'm very much afraid one ca n't last the night , and I 've ugly doubts about another .
8 Enough to say that , after he had recovered from the operation and came home , Nigel and I had forty-eight days together in which he was serene , happy and free from pain , which I regard as beyond price .
9 ‘ But when we got married and I had two children he did n't want me to work any more , and he got very jealous of other men looking at me .
10 ‘ I 've still got a steel plate and screws in my leg after breaking both ankles last year and I had two falls in four days in July .
11 He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice .
12 I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence .
13 So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me .
14 And I had total confidence in Robin as , very touchingly , he had in me when we climbed on the mountain .
15 Although my hon. Friends the Member for Billericay ( Mrs. Gorman ) and for Basildon and I had certain concerns about the overall reorganisation proposed — my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay and I expressed them very forcefully , as my hon. Friend the Minister knows — we took exactly the same line as the community health council on the centralisation of casualty .
16 Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again !
17 really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ?
18 Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind
19 The day you went to get Bunny and I had terrible hay fever .
20 And I had five sons , a disabled father , according to the media , and er , I got on with it .
21 In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back .
22 I also did a great deal of business with Alfred Gates , director of Ackermann 's , and I had great respect for him .
23 And I had unfinished business with Masha .
24 Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain .
25 And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da !
26 So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck .
27 And I had one sergeant downstairs patrolling the er street level .
28 Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy .
29 I obviously understood this very well and I had all sorts of
30 There were only two rooms in our house , and I had nine brothers and sisters .
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