Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 2 | A small trainer like me has a job to tick over , let alone make a living , but he always comes to the rescue . |
| 3 | One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings . |
| 4 | Each of them has a value and a part to play but they should serve us ; we should not be their slaves . |
| 5 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 6 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 7 | And these six can now be further reduced by asking which of them meets a number of desirable but not essential wants : Which of them has a garden ? |
| 8 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 9 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 10 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 11 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 12 | Not one of them has a day 's experience of working in British industry . |
| 13 | If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other . |
| 14 | They have been encouraged to be suspicious of whatever may be ‘ unsound ’ ( a favourite Oxbridge concept ) ; they owe a sentimental and intellectual allegiance to the same few places ; barely one of them has a ‘ regional ’ accent . |
| 15 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 16 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 17 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 18 | That cargo plane of yours has a range of three thousand , six hundred sea miles . |
| 19 | David , David has a dentist app I think his has a dentist appointment . |
| 20 | Another said , ‘ I 'd a thought you 'd had enough of that by now ! ’ |
| 21 | But I 'd disappeared because I 'd a man shouting ‘ fruit and vegetables ’ ( in those days , you had to have your name and address on your cart ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Dirt 's the same the world over I 'd a thought . ’ |
| 23 | " If it 's all the same to you , darling , I 'd a whole lot rather it did n't hurt . " |
| 24 | I must have knocked it or something and I 'd a couple of shots left and I ought to have shot the swine but I could n't , not while he was sitting there killing himself laughing . |
| 25 | M my my view of that was that 's the one I 'd a question mark against |
| 26 | And I 'd a breath of fresh air . |
| 27 | I 'd a terrible urge to shout , Fuck-all 's well up this turret , mate ! |
| 28 | I felt dirty , hungry and cold ; I 'd a headache ; I was running low on Aspros , and the Vat was nearly all gone . |
| 29 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 30 | Er I 'd a lad , a Street , , , that 's what it , they used to call us . |