Example sentences of "and [pron] had this " in BNC.

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1 On reflection , my brothers and I had this in common — attraction to the opposite sex .
2 And I had this strange image of myself and Frankie Vaughan sitting in her front room , spinning a coin to see who went first .
3 God , yesterday I looked at Oliver and I had this strange thought .
4 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 .
5 you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long
6 From there and I had this telescope .
7 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 .
8 They were only gon na ring us if there was anything wrong and I had this horrible feeling at that point that that was the vet ringing up to say things had gone wrong .
9 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
10 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
11 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 .
12 Ah um I , I had spaghetti bolognaise and er I ha , and I had this cheese thing last night .
13 Sort of seventeenish , that sort of age erm , and I had this really weird dream , that we were canoe canoeing up this river and erm ,
14 And you had this rescinded , Highness ? ’
15 " And she had this baby and it had a birthmark like a cat 's face on its stomach . "
16 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 .
17 And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds .
18 So , Julie sent the patient a bunch of flowers and sh , and said sorry for the de , for the delay , you know it 's there tomorrow , and she had this , she had it done again .
19 kingpin fairy , she sat on someone 's head and she had this massive gown all over her , and that was really visual .
20 Anyway , they all came in and we had this instant party which was very pleasant .
21 There was very little noise as no-one had arrived — between twenty and thirty people were in the room — and we had this teeny stereo system about as big as a transistor radio for music .
22 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 .
23 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
24 Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people .
25 And then when we elected erm two people Honorary Freemen of the town , erm I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and their mace-bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the assembly hall which was packed house of about four hundred people .
26 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 !
27 If girls are considered slags , they are considered slags from before , because they had slept with guys when they were young , and they had this , that and the other guy .
28 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 .
29 They waltzed round in the car and they had this brown loaf warm out of the oven for me .
30 He collected a group of protective converts , and he had this knack of making even the most reasonable request look like persecution .
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