Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 And I 'd aunties over here
2 you know I have n't er had I had letters about it ?
3 Could I have tomatoes instead ? ’
4 Can I have bookings please ?
5 Can I have potatoes please .
6 Not only did I have loops at the edge , but seven or eight stitches actually leapt off the needles .
7 Why should I have teachers on secondment ?
8 ‘ Can I have chips ? ’
9 ‘ But why , Nana , why must I have shoes ? ’
10 My question is , how can I have problems like other fishkeepers ?
11 What are tragic to behold are women … who suddenly do a volte face at fifty and say , ‘ Why did n't I have children ? ' ’ …
12 ‘ If Li Shai Tung has approved it , why should I have objections ?
13 Well could I have comments on the principle or principles of er by using criteria and then I 'd like to go through the individual criteria or individual criterion one by one .
14 Can I have sweeties ?
15 Right can I have suggestions them ?
16 Can I have nominations .
17 Second item on the agenda is election of chairman could I have nominations please .
18 Yes , well , I had things to think about and some work to finish in the office .
19 But I had callipers
20 I have not been kind to my back ; I had accidents when I was a boy , tree-climbing and biking , and I have spent many years skiing .
21 I had arrows on the brain as well as through the lungs , I thought .
22 They raved about what they called my ‘ Van Gogh ’ hair ( a naturally pale yellow at the time ) , and Helen welcomed me because , as she said , I had fairies sitting on my shoulder .
23 But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention .
24 Certainly , when a boy , I had fights with juvenile delinquents , some of whom belonged to ‘ gangs ’ .
25 What 's more , I had memories from many other lifetimes of taking vows of poverty .
26 For fragrance , in my opinion , there is little to match juniper ; I would stack this wood aside against the days I had visitors .
27 I had aches in muscles I never knew I owned .
28 One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur .
29 It was the first time in my life I had acted like a complete sod to other people , and I felt that my behaviour was worse because I had loads of advantages the lesser recruits did n't : I could speak French ; I was basically healthier and therefore found fitness much easier ; I was a north European Caucasian which endeared me to some of the more racist instructors .
30 So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’
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