Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork . |
| 2 | I presume he must also want them to have a happy death . |
| 3 | I do n't want them to have an uneventful journey . |
| 4 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 5 | Apparently the cleaner overheard them having a tremendous row . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think I had a great deal to do with it . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't think I had the right attitude towards it . |
| 8 | I recall that during my last six months service I had the magnificent sum of £6/5/ ( £6.25 now ) to spend on myself . |
| 9 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 10 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 11 | I mean I had the same problem when I was secretary . |
| 12 | However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards . |
| 13 | We do n't encourage them to give up their other sports , we just want them to have the same chance in tennis . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 15 | I have to pick it up , she said oh that 's good , as I say I had a brilliant interview when the other members of staff come Steve and erm , I forget what the girl 's name was , but she 's already had a |
| 16 | " I did n't know you had a set time for dealing with housing . " |
| 17 | Because she had no man , Clare also suddenly found she had no public identity and was not likely to get asked to dinner parties , for society seemed to move only in couples . |
| 18 | Never having been aboard a ship before , she found she had a natural liking for the sea life : she suffered no seasickness at all , and as João had sent an excellent chef to cook her meals , she dined well and developed a taste for the green wine of Portugal . |
| 19 | Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent . |
| 20 | ‘ I expect you have the wrong kind of sight . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ D' you have a guilty conscience , maybe ? ’ |
| 22 | D' you have a nice time ? |
| 23 | Dr Howe … an Oxford graduate … had been a tutor in English at the Open University based at Foxcombe Hall in Oxford for the past two years … she 's recently published her first book … through Cambridge university Press called the First English Actresses … colleagues say she had a bright future . |
| 24 | The standard BC109 quotes a range of 180 to 800 and you are less likely to find you have a suitable device . |
| 25 | Glad to know you had a good visit to — but am amazed you only used ten units of electricity . |
| 26 | ‘ I want you to have a great time tonight , ’ he said several times , ‘ but do n't go without taking away 12 business cards . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah , but the thing is , what it 's , what it 's doing is that , they want you to have a normal conversation on . |
| 28 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 29 | Nothing was said to indicate she had a proprietary interest in the house . |
| 30 | Say we have a social event I 'll do that |