Example sentences of "she had this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |
2 | But perhaps it was just as well that she had this shock , for in her relief at finding the injury comparatively slight , she forbore to say very much about the unexpected guest . |
3 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
4 | I think she had this lady had tried to drown herself in the quay before that . |
5 | She loved her baby brother , and she quite liked taking him out in his pram — but not when she had more interesting things to do , as she had this afternoon . |
6 | She had this portfolio of crayon portraits . |
7 | Oh , I 've been with Joyce since then , when had , used to live at Southwold , or near Southwold , and eh , we used to go there and she , she got killed where all the , she had a , a garden wall of felt sort of Fred Flintstone one , and there was a bend on the Ipswich erm , oh Ipswich Lowestoft road , right where she had this cottage |
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 | If , for example , she had this girl Ari under her protection , she could , through strategic matings , harvest power right to the top . |
10 | Erm , you know she had this cancer seven years ago when she had her breast cancer and , had her breast taken off they 've now found it 's gone further in seven years she , you know , she was |
11 | " And she had this baby and it had a birthmark like a cat 's face on its stomach . " |
12 | ‘ Tests showed that she had this condition , and it has deteriorated over the years . |
13 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
14 | She had this thing that if it had been a Nigerian boy , the mother would be here saying " I 'm sorry my son has got your daughter pregnant . |
15 | ‘ She had this sorta Hallowe'en mask on , ’ said Keach . |
16 | Well she had this cup for him , there was no handle on it and she knew it was the dog 's so |
17 | I mean , I thought she 'd be more inclined to help me if she had this image of me tramping the streets for weeks on end … ’ |
18 | Only when she had this data could she say with any confidence whether people who were converted into the Unification Church ( the dependent variable ) were different in any systematic ways from the rest of the population . |
19 | She had this job at the checkout in the Co-op , but … |
20 | She had this pervert on and he was going on all through everything you know what I mean ? |
21 | Of course Tracey why she 's upset is because she said that she had this examiner |