Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] had this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what would you like from the catalogue sort of thing and I only had this catalogue to Cos I pa you know I paid for it what di did they have ? |
| 2 | I tell ya , I just , I just had this sort of yearning for chocolate , ooh |
| 3 | I always had this thing in the back of my mind that I 'd like to be Head Gardener at Killerton one day , because of the type of garden it is , because of its size and because of the plant content . |
| 4 | I still had this idea that my weight was too personal a topic for other people to talk about . |
| 5 | ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour — to be a woman in control but sexy and fun . |
| 6 | ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour . |
| 7 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 8 | One man was outside , two were sitting inside , the men were completely black , so black trousers , black hats and they had a black cape over it , over their faces so you could n't see who they were , and one of them just had this gun in his hand , and fired at this Citroen here located . |
| 9 | Er just a points er I think it it you probably had this point clear in your mind anyway but there are different rules that apply as between West Yorkshire and Cleveland . |
| 10 | We found a very nice you know we once had this push up horse , we now found a push up doll which is sort of quite nicely coloured and this little spinning top which I think is quite nice . |
| 11 | We , we then had this situation where the , er , the Chief Constable ha went to great lengths to er , work out a new establishment for himself , and the senior management , and actually ach chi and er , and preempted it and then asked the er , the Home Office if he could use the money to increase the constables on the beat . |
| 12 | We never had this problem years ago , I mean it 's only do-gooders who stopped the stuff we used to use years ago which was a reasonable price , who 's caused all these problems . |
| 13 | I know I 've worked for Churchill , Eden , MacMillan , Hulme , Heath , Thatcher , we never had this personalization of the great traditions until very recently . |
| 14 | But , but I think er you know in , in Russia er they always had this kind of authoritarian regime . |
| 15 | They often had this sort of conversation , and Constance always made allowances for Scarlet 's naivety : such slowness on the uptake was the result of a sheltered background and not necessarily a sign of limited intelligence , though she sometimes wondered . |
| 16 | Somehow he always had this feeling when he was with Mick . |
| 17 | No-one else had this qualification . |