Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I presume he must also want them to have a happy death . |
| 2 | Apparently the cleaner overheard them having a tremendous row . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think I had a great deal to do with it . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 6 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | " I did n't know you had a set time for dealing with housing . " |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ D' you have a guilty conscience , maybe ? ’ |
| 12 | D' you have a nice time ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The standard BC109 quotes a range of 180 to 800 and you are less likely to find you have a suitable device . |
| 15 | Glad to know you had a good visit to — but am amazed you only used ten units of electricity . |
| 16 | ‘ I want you to have a great time tonight , ’ he said several times , ‘ but do n't go without taking away 12 business cards . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , but the thing is , what it 's , what it 's doing is that , they want you to have a normal conversation on . |
| 18 | Nothing was said to indicate she had a proprietary interest in the house . |
| 19 | Say we have a social event I 'll do that |
| 20 | Says Payne : ‘ We found we had a tremendous amount in common , a real northern European outlook with people from the Pacific rim , Siberia or the Russian heartlands . |
| 21 | ‘ Allowing for the generation gap , we found we had a surprising amount in common . |
| 22 | That 's seconded , nice to know we have a straight choice , as you favour , we 'll take them in reverse order . |
| 23 | I did n't know they had a big library . |
| 24 | While visiting the local volcano , Serena is profoundly upset by the sight of hardened lava fields around a bubbling centre , and this causes her to have a nervous breakdown . |
| 25 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 26 | The morning crew were a little surprised to find they had a new colleague but none of them was unduly perturbed by the intrusion . |
| 27 | The children say they had a great time , eating sweets and with a pirate on board their bus . |
| 28 | They say they had a good hearing |
| 29 | They say they had a good hearing |
| 30 | The police and football authorities now say they have a good picture of who 's who in the hooligan world . |