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

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31 I was doing my SHO in paediatrics at the time , and I had a word with my boss .
32 About three months ago , my husband and I had a celebration dinner in town .
33 ‘ Yes , well there again , after he came out of the Army he was still doing a lot of movies , and I had a recording studio in Nashville ; D.J here was living there , too , doing sessions .
34 You know Irene and I had a holiday along there , we stayed at Frinton and then moved to Clacton .
35 We 're taking it very seriously , and I had a go at the players after our game in Italy .
36 LOURDES is a very special place , there I felt humble and I had a realisation that no matter what pain or trouble I had I was by no means alone .
37 Eva and Charlie and I had a drink and talked about other things .
38 I thought : if Richard and I had a daughter , would we quarrel over this ?
39 And I admitted to myself that I was an alcoholic and I had a problem with prescription pills , and in order to survive — in order to live — had to change that .
40 Later , when Luke and I had a trip north , we delivered the chest on the way .
41 And I had a phone call
42 Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on .
43 And I had a look inside and they 've got the kitchen done out in like erm light wood .
44 Over at Basingstoke and I had a look in the shoe shops , and that , they would be very handy for me erm lace up though
45 Steve Reid and I had a couple of free days and were eager to climb somewhere different .
46 I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts :
47 I mean , I like that and I had a couple of cups of coffee , I think mine came to about five thirty five .
48 And I had a couple of months making it and god , it was such a wonderful time I had and writing the lyrics and saying things about love and feelings that have meant something to me over the years .
49 Of course when we came back and discovered Andrew and co had arrived , he 'd parked on the verge and I had a dig at Andrew about it .
50 when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall .
51 So that 's me got four and I 've got another five to do and I had a telephone call from field controller in Edinburgh last night and I really do think I do n't know how I managed to keep my tongue still .
52 For a minute I thought my luck had changed and something good had happened , like Malpass had had a heart attack and I had a corpse in the back .
53 And I had a test , and the old Colonel and Colchester came to see now and how you 're getting on , he was , just about retiring he wanted a different desk in his office .
54 And I had a snuff of that then I was n't right for a while .
55 You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry .
56 No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow .
57 When the truck had dumped me and my kit-bag at the Guard Room and I had a chance to look around me , I spied in the middle distance a cluster of substantial looking buildings .
58 Charles Fleming and I had a chance to look around the beautiful shops , and eat out at the RED SEA PALACE HOTEL ( pure magic by the way ) .
59 Met him in Stratford last summer when Dinda and I had a cottage ,
60 Dinda and I had a cottage in Stratford last , we made sure that father was going to Plymouth to Debbie 's for the week , he said he adores it down there
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