Example sentences of "and [pers pn] had this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah um I , I had spaghetti bolognaise and er I ha , and I had this cheese thing last night . |
| 2 | Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision . |
| 3 | Well when you say cake , do n't get the wrong ideas , erm my idea of a cake , the vision that I had of a , a three tier cake , came to me as I was striding home from a meeting across The Downs and I had this vision of a three tier cake . |
| 4 | Well I did , I took it , I took it out and said , alright when I went and enquired , I said well I would normally have a cheque book now cos I 'm not always in the bank , and I had this slip to say I do n't need one will come automatically he said oh yes , but that breaking down is hopeless , then I should fill it in now and I 'll take it . |
| 5 | Well I was out there watering at time scares was on and I had this letter and planes did come over and I laid me ho hosepipe down , I mean you know so he would n't be able |
| 6 | that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service |
| 7 | From there and I had this telescope . |
| 8 | And now that was the attitude that that that they they had that er a lot of them , not not everybody of course that just and she had this attitude , erm anybody that had lost their baby were lucky , you see . |
| 9 | " And she had this baby and it had a birthmark like a cat 's face on its stomach . " |
| 10 | Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time |
| 11 | Anyway , they all came in and we had this instant party which was very pleasant . |
| 12 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | Right and they had this bit they 're in these white sailor 's uniform and they 're stripping the gloves off which was really uninteresting but they all looked really , you know , smart and they were saluting . |
| 14 | And the studio floor was covered with meat , and they had this dog they 'd starved for three days with contact mics all over its stomach … and they were recording him eating the meat ! |
| 15 | He collected a group of protective converts , and he had this knack of making even the most reasonable request look like persecution . |
| 16 | And he had this theatre the panopticon and er |
| 17 | And he had this kind of |
| 18 | and he had this handle , a and er they were saying , we 'll need to get ourself a handle , |
| 19 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |