Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We collected 30 bags of rubbish in one day , and realised we had a serious problem , ’ he says ‘ From then on I decided to blitz the village a couple of days every week . |
| 2 | The moment she saw Mungo , Mary Ann fussed and tut-tutted and made him have a bath . |
| 3 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 5 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 6 | However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges . |
| 7 | Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent . |
| 8 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 9 | He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park . |
| 10 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 11 | We used to go on a tram-car and have a smoke , and a councillor was on there once , and noticed us having a smoke . |
| 12 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 13 | A WOMAN whose silicone breast implant ruptured and caused her to have a partial mastectomy was awarded £17 million by an American jury yesterday . |
| 14 | Why had n't she told a white lie and claimed she had a licence ? |
| 15 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 16 | He darted a brief glance towards Therese and saw she had a surprised little smile on her face , the smile of a professional who discovers she will be singing with a partner well above average . |
| 17 | When Mrs Chamberlin had gone , hurrying into the gloomy February afternoon , her oatmeal figure bent resolutely against the wind , Alexandra looked round the drawing-room and saw it had an animated , unsettled look , as if the last caller had stirred everything to action , all the silver photograph frames , the vases and pin-cushions , the rugs and cushions and shaded lamps . |
| 18 | Then I started to make myself vomit and knew I had a problem . |
| 19 | ‘ I was 17 and thought I had a god given right to be in Spur 's first team . |
| 20 | When Bill and Jenny bought it in 1977 , it was in need of a lot of tender loving care — today , much restored and refurbished it has a wealth of beams , stripped pine and attractive brick fireplaces . |
| 21 | And did he have a soul ? |
| 22 | My dearest friend , And did you have a happy May day ? |
| 23 | ‘ And did you have a good day ? ’ his mother persisted . |
| 24 | And did you have a lot on it ? |
| 25 | And did you have an orange too ? |
| 26 | They took the baby and I remember asking if it was okay and did I have a boy or a girl . |
| 27 | The witness began to cry , and said they had a quilt and other little things . |
| 28 | He shook during the interviews and said he had a history of mental illness . |
| 29 | Richard , who is unemployed , has been driving since he was 17 and said he had a clean licence . |
| 30 | ‘ One day he returned home to Chamalières and said I had a job with Michel and Pierre for £1.50 a month . |