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

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1 may already have spoken to you about her and my plan to have a training/recreation weekend in St Andrews ( Saturday ) and Edinburgh ( Friday evening and Sunday ) in the autumn , 19–21 November ,
2 The nearest one is in the next townland and my bicycle has a puncture .
3 Well I used to ride a motorbike a and my father had a Triumph motorbike because he bought I do n't why he , why he bought it and he was terrified of it cos it was very fierce !
4 There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time .
5 We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment .
6 ‘ My father was the driest comedian you ever heard , and my mother had a wonderful singing voice — much better than mine , ’ Lynne says .
7 And he and my mother had a disagreement about this and er the result was that my father became very ill and I went home to Grandma .
8 On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Lords , sitting as the final court of appeal , ruled that while the ITC and its members had a moral responsibility to its creditors , the creditors had no contractual claims under English law against the 22 member states of the ITC .
9 For the next two or three years the directions , possibilities and practicalities continued to be discussed , with those polytechnic directors on the Council and its committees having a particularly difficult part to play in formulating policy .
10 Although it is neither in England nor Anglican , the ecumenical community at Taizé in France has become well known in recent years as a place of pilgrimage , especially by young people , and its music has a profound and growing influence in our churches .
11 This room and its collections have a strange history .
12 Far down the mountain , the peloton and its stragglers have a different rhythm .
13 The depot and its locomotives have a high place in the Southern enthusiasts ' hearts and Boocock has brought together a collection of pictures that illustrated the life in and around the depot as well as its varied locomotive stud out and about on the system 's metals .
14 Later , while sitting at the kitchen table making a special list of people to help with Easter flowers , and a subsidiary list of those who might be approached to donate Easter lilies , Anna and her conscience had a little tussle .
15 The people who 'd chartered her had flown to Paris for the weekend and her crew had a party .
16 It was so much worse for her because all the other boys did turn up , and her friends had a lovely time with their partners .
17 The plot of The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover has a hand-me-down Jacobean tragedy feel to it , though it is usually only the language of those plays that remains exciting , not their storylines , and Greenaway is innocent of imitation there .
18 Presumably , she and her husband have a valuable relationship , which would be devastated if you let your feelings get out of hand .
19 In another local bar , student Betsy Goodman says : ‘ Cindy does n't keep in touch with anyone and her mother has a real attitude now . ’
20 ‘ You 're so lovely , ’ he said huskily , and her throat had a great lump in it suddenly that threatened to choke her .
21 Unfortunately , many publications omit reference to this , so it is no wonder social workers and their managers have a limited view of their duties , as well as those of local authorities .
22 Her findings were that both the writers themselves and their families had a substantially raised incidence of mental illness , but especially of affective psychosis , including depression and forms of the disorder characterised by severe mood swings .
23 Secondly I did write to all the members of the Council about the issue of the British National Corpus and their desire to have a record of English as she is spoke and their is a gentleman from here today , if you would care to stand up to identify yourself please .
24 In some ways they are even better than our own , for a squid can distinguish polarised light which we can not do and their retinas have a finer structure which means , almost certainly , that they can distinguish finer detail than we can .
25 The fishermen and their children have a habit of holding fish between their teeth to prevent their escape while searching for another .
26 The Landsat satellites , which are operated by the American Eosat company , have an orbital altitude of 705 km and their sensors have a narrower field of view which covers the area within 92.5 km of their suborbital tracks .
27 So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost .
28 THE Duke and Duchess of Kent became grandparents for the second time yesterday when the Earl of St Andrews and his wife had a baby girl .
29 Later in Edward I 's reign he and his wife had a series of disputes with the Dublin government .
30 In fact , he was married , although not many people knew this , and his wife had a serious and incurable disease called lupus , which at times took quite a toll on his own emotions and energy .
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