Example sentences of "have get this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special . |
| 32 | You d you do n't mind if I do the hoovering now do you , you kn the 'oovering , sorry , and they 've got this little flap flooted shuf flat footed shuffle excuse me , |
| 33 | Because they have so much trouble finding beds in London hospitals , they 've got this little company set up to do the job for the doctors , so there is no way in the world that I can believe there 's a shortage of beds . |
| 34 | They 've got this little thing in their head if it 's not got blood in it no red blood they can eat it . |
| 35 | We 've got this old boy that comes to me , often she 's told us his hands are rotten , that it 's all yellow and horrible ! |
| 36 | No no you jack in when like you 've got this big bit of metal |
| 37 | lo I 've got this big problem really about people like you coming on asking for pianos . |
| 38 | No I 've got this big problem you see because very often pianos are at the centre of orgies . |
| 39 | However and this is why we 've got this big diagram coming up however different councils are elected at different points in the electoral sequence . |
| 40 | And erm we 've got this big rally er which a fortnight ago Julie suggested that we had a rally I think she thought er you know that it was time we a the public profile up sort of thing . |
| 41 | Sure , there are differences , they 've got this one-eyed machine and so on , but basically it 's the same thing , and we even tell them it 's going to end in the same way with the raft capsizing . |
| 42 | I 've got this tiresome woman here asking endless rude questions . |
| 43 | I mean I get phone calls everyday all day long from VETS who are saying I 've got this prickly ball , what the hell do I do with it , you see , and I can explain to them how to try and unroll a hedgehog and then what to do when you get inside the hedgehog . |
| 44 | If you know the plot of Eldorado , they 've got this 17-year-old girl married to this 50-year-old bloke … ‘ |
| 45 | The problem is , they 've got this parametric EQ and when I first toured with it my guitar roadie could n't figure what was wrong , because it was cutting out and crackling . |
| 46 | And it 's the usual , well you know son you 're getting on now and it 's time to settle down and I 've put your name down for agency in Taiwan or whatever , and we 've got this lovely girl who we think is ideal for you , da da , da da da and we 're sending over the papers for you to fill in . |
| 47 | Now P C knows that I 've got this smashing class . |
| 48 | So now , I 've got this huge wall of story . |
| 49 | But you ca n't blame them : they 've got this huge sort of industry around them . |
| 50 | but we still insist we 've got this special relationship and er still always want to do what what what they want us to do . |
| 51 | And it does n't stop there because when you 've worked that out now you 've got to wo you 've got this biggish number three sixty , Urgh ! |
| 52 | Now she came away thinking I 've got this secondhand car and they 've given me a warranty . |
| 53 | We 've got this red grid over the top of the spreadsheet erm within a single column , covering er four rows you 've got these little er blocks let's call them erm memory is used in , used in columns , so er , if you put an entry in any one of those four cells there , then er , within a , within a box , it will use sixteen bytes of memory . |
| 54 | I 've got this white friend who grew up in Stoke Newington , and she really loves Reggae , she knows everything about it . |
| 55 | ‘ As you see , I 've got this white board which we fill up with all the various activities . |
| 56 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 57 | I 've got this smart suit on and Marie 's wearing this white wedding dress with all these frilly bits . |
| 58 | And one of the flexibilities may actually be to say well if we 've got this guaranteed income , we can afford to do something else with the rest . |
| 59 | The only thing is when you 're doing it , you do n't notice , you know three hours later , and you 've got this raw leg and nice straight lines and you 're |
| 60 | At that point , it could be doing all sorts of weird things , and you 'd think oh , I 've got this wonderful graph and I plotted a lot of points close together , so I know my sketch was right , because it looked like this funny W thing or M or something |