Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [pron] had [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They heard of course from the child himself and they had the advantage of a very full report prepared at short notice from the guardian ad litem and the guardian ad litem was present and assisted the justices at the hearing .
2 For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head .
3 He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line .
4 He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line .
5 No one had a clue what was wrong with me and I had no idea what was going on .
6 Now old and new furies possessed me and I had the man by the neck of his jersey and pushed up against the wall .
7 Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road .
8 Just because there were two of them and they had a knife at my ear , they thought I was their prisoner .
9 When we have a when we were talking to them and we had the door through and my snooker got really good .
10 She and I had the other .
11 It 's time you and he had a chat . ’
12 ‘ I wanted to phone you but I had no chance … ’
13 Once upon a time you had a dream — that you lived in a world of simple market forces where everything or everybody had a price or value .
14 You know but were all the you know the short ones and everything and he had a blitz on them .
15 Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue
16 It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter .
17 You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry .
18 I mean , if she had a marriage with him and she had the relationship and now you 're a good friend to him , and you 're a friend to her , she 's probably very jealous of the fact that you 're
19 Er there was one chappie that er erm I can remember of him and he had a suitcase and well he had a shaving soap I suppose cos people used soap then with your shaving brush and and that and proper shaving brush and razor blades probably that quite .
20 He listened silently , simply nodding when she had finished He could never marry her and he had no right to stand in the way of any happiness she could find .
21 Simon : he was n't here to help her and she had no idea what had happened to him .
22 He never looked at her and she had the feeling that she should be hopping about from one foot to the next , ready to beg .
23 Cranston saw Bonaventure fairly skipping along to greet him but he had no desire to have that bloody cat rubbing up against his leg , so hustled Athelstan out to collect their horses .
24 He did n't want to force her but he had no alternative .
25 I could n't find her but I had the feeling I was n't alone .
26 A duty solicitor had an obligation to provide advice to persons in custody and , if desired , to make a bail application ; he or she had a discretion to provide advice and representation to defendants , whether or not in custody , in cases involving imprisonable offences , and even in connection with non-imprisonable offences in exceptional cases .
27 The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument .
28 Similarly , in order for occupation of land to amount to a tenancy , the courts have held that the claimant must show that he or she had the right to , and did , exclude the landlord .
29 We took Fujichrome , shot it at 5000 ASA and developed it at about 6400 ASA , we just pushed the shit out of it and we had no idea of what would happen . ’
30 Murchison the Slinnart bobby was all for killing it and he had a stone raised to despatch it when I said no .
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