Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have a big " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it , and it like , it run down me face there and I had a big red mark on me face . |
| 2 | You go in for three days and you have a big dose of drugs . |
| 3 | I remember the one one of the ladies , er she was dressed in erm in green and she had a big bow . |
| 4 | And a big hat and she had a big bow she looked you know . |
| 5 | ‘ She is strong and athletic ’ says Slater ‘ and she has a big serve . |
| 6 | My father was a miner but loved his garden and we had a big smallholding |
| 7 | I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard . |
| 8 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
| 9 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 10 | And they had a big tt gas engine there with a great big flywheel and you can see these machines today , they did n't make them round , they used to make them flat . |
| 11 | They must have been renewed somewhere about the erm I would say roughly round about nineteen twenty seven , twenty eight and that 's been renewed as lock gates , cos they took 'em out and they had a big crane come from Rotterdam to lift them up and er things do now well that 's surprising what they do do now . |
| 12 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
| 13 | It was black and he had a big shiny hat . |
| 14 | He was a horrid little rat like creature and he had a big swastika on his stomach . |
| 15 | And I was downstairs with Lottie ; and we were taking coats , do you see ; people were coming in to lunch or dinner — I forget — we were taking the coats , and a man went upstairs — I do n't know who he was — and he had a big head , and it was completely bald ! |
| 16 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 17 | and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs |
| 18 | and it had a big basement and everything on it . |