Example sentences of "and [pers pn] 've a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 've come to terms with the blow and I 've a marriage to arrange .
2 ‘ You 're hardly older than me , and I 've a year or two to go before I 'm forty . ’
3 Setting up one 's own business is a pretty big enterprise , and I 've a five-year-old daughter whose welfare I have to consider . ’
4 My daughter 's bringing the children over and I 've a lot to do . ’
5 And I 've a feeling he 's lonely over there and all
6 But they 're not the only ones , by the way , I 'm also concerned about the fact that more and more young people seem to be in this syndrome and I 've a feeling that that comes down not just to government things , but also to the problems in the family as a whole .
7 ‘ There 's me on clarinet , you on horn and I 've a tuba player called Chase .
8 You mentioned environment , Councillor and you 've a Government white paper , a common inheritance .
9 Add to all this the heady brew of an ‘ unchaperoned ’ building plus adjacent changing rooms and a warm , soapy shower — and you 've a recipe for disaster .
10 Add to that a smooth ‘ knife through butter ’ gearchange and responsive brakes ( with anti-lock from the 2.0-litre engine size upwards ) and you 've a recipe for smooth , undemanding driving .
11 and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound
12 ‘ Lachlan 'll never let us hear the end of it if he clears them all out and us not with him — and we 've a week 's good behaviour to work off ! ’
13 Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself .
14 Oxford were far from their best and they 've a chance for another warm up tonight …
15 Oxford were far from their best and they 've a chance for another warm up tonight …
16 Here are a couple who are doing very awkward cooking over an open fire because their cooker has packed in and they can get a new one only in terms of a loan which is compulsorily payable by deduction from their , from their pension every week and they 've a Scot 's dread of debt .
17 And , and all these tests and they 've a project here and this , that and the other
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