Example sentences of "they had this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Craig : ‘ Yeah , but they had this element where they could write classic pop chart songs , and then again they could write ten minute mad songs as well . |
| 3 | I ca n't tell you any more than that but that was the , they had this tune that went with it . |
| 4 | And also , like all the Hawaiian musicians , Gabby was heavily influenced by jazz ; they had this kind of natural rhythmic sense , so it was very easy to go right off into it . |
| 5 | Yes but in Russia they they had this kind of framework before communism began |
| 6 | Th there was sort of decorations on the saddles and things like that you know , and er , er , they had this firm and it was up of course , well , and it , to tell how far it was I had to be in by seven o'clock and I used to run it all the way . |
| 7 | So they had this girl which they showed er , where they had to break all the bone up under here |
| 8 | And again , I mean the training agency are , are sort of masters and mistresses they say , of this , because they , they had this stuff and then they actually you know , certain departments will have a pre-printed page with all the abbreviations that you should use . |
| 9 | They had this , they had this A T Cobra |
| 10 | when Carolyn was working there they had this intruder . |
| 11 | And then erm , then they had this thing called Niff , which was water , and they came round spraying all of us . |
| 12 | Cos they had this argument before , Kim said five , five hundred fifty o fifty thousand and Kim said no we 'll make it hundred thousand cos |
| 13 | ‘ Well they had this sale of nylons twenty-eight cents below what I usually pay . |
| 14 | Well , it was , they had this son , this this young lad came erm Stephen Fry was playing part of the the fa |
| 15 | But they had this goalkeeper , do you remember him , his name was Thomasescu , he was about ten foot two , eyes of blue , and he stopped everything , Kevin Hector had a go , Alan Clarke , they all did , even Peter Shilton in goal . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off , |
| 18 | Erm on this film I saw when they was getting the fingerprints they had this sort of like little cloth in a bag and they sort of |
| 19 | Yet they had this sort of erm this sort of feeling about them that they created themselves , that they were sort of cock of the rock , within a shipyard . |