Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father and mother both died in the Royal Hampshire Country Hospital ; my second grandchild was born there ; my daughter had her appendix removed there and my wife had an MOT there . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Dr Dawson , a wonderful man who died not long ago , was present and my arrival had an unfortunate repercussion . |
| 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 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her short hair refused to grow any longer , and her furs had no hood . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The people who 'd chartered her had flown to Paris for the weekend and her crew had a party . |
| 13 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 16 | It was all ‘ God this ’ and ‘ Our Lord that ’ and her belief had no room for questions . |
| 17 | Any kind of bed , by now , would have been welcome ; but to his relief the woman who came to the inner closed door was clean , and her house had no odour of bugs . |
| 18 | She was the tenant of the flat and did not want to move so the daughter and her husband had no rights to that accommodation . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're so lovely , ’ he said huskily , and her throat had a great lump in it suddenly that threatened to choke her . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For only in the formal processes of the courts was there any common alternative to the use of force ; and in most European countries throughout the period of this book kings and their officers had the greatest difficulty in preventing might from proving stronger than right : disorder was endemic , justice weak — but none the less sought after and admired for being in short supply . |
| 22 | The importance of such direct , if only fleeting and superficial , contact with exotic cultures is further demonstrated by Maine 's contemporary , Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818–81 ) , an American lawyer who inaugurated the study of kinship and whose works had an important influence on Marx and Engels . |
| 23 | I was never very good with my hands , but I did this with my school friend John McClenahan , who was much better and whose father had a workshop in their house . |
| 24 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Later in Edward I 's reign he and his wife had a series of disputes with the Dublin government . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Der summat like that , and his wife had a baby at the same time as Elaine 's so she our midwife would come and er , so the she kept in touch really of of what they were because they wanted to , I 'll take the place off , they wanted to take it over . |
| 29 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 30 | Handyman Paddy Whiteland and his wife had an all expenses paid two weeks holiday in Spain , including a Royal car to the airport . |