Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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1 | The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments . |
2 | Home-grown : Edinburgh 's Royal Botanic Garden also has had a long involvement with the development of plants with medicinal properties |
3 | Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing . |
4 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
5 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
6 | The mink has had a chequered relationship with us , but we must remember that the changes are of our own making . |
7 | But there are now clear allegations that Prince Charles has had a loving friendship with Camilla , a married woman , for many years . |
8 | AT&T has had a similar experience with its Global Business Communications Systems subsidiary , which sells $1 billion of telecommunications gear annually to corporate customers . |
9 | McGee , who began as an apprentice with Middlesbrough but was released after making 30 League appearances , has had a unsuccessful spell with Leicester . |
10 | He has had a solid connection with the orchestra and the Scottish music scene ever since , and has been responsible for bringing some unusual works to the concert platform in the past . |
11 | In the past this Association has had a good relationship with the DLO in Derry . |
12 | The Scottish Churches Christian Aid Committee has been investigating and has had a helpful meeting with a senior representative of the Association of Chief Police Offices ( Scotland ) ( ACPO ) . |
13 | Paul Crossley has had a unique association with Tippett 's music , commissioning the Third Sonata and giving the first performances of No. 3 and 4 . |
14 | It has had a long-standing application with the American Department of Transportation to fly from New York to Stansted . |
15 | Judith is astonished , as she has had a difficult relationship with her mother , whom she feels has little maternal feeling . |
16 | ARGOS , the nationwide catalogue-retailing group which has had a volatile relationship with the City in recent months , regained its status as one of the sector stars yesterday with a better-than-expected 1992 performance and a cautiously optimistic view of the future . |
17 | Third , an historical analysis also serves to illustrate how a narrow section of the press — the political or quality press — has had a continuing fascination with , and attraction to , the centres of legitimate political power and those who exercise it ; moreover , the relationship between the triumvirate of politicians , proprietors and editors — namely , those who exercise political power and those who seek to bask in the afterglow of the exercise of that power — was never fixed . |
18 | ‘ Morrissey has had a lengthy conversation with the mother of Lesley Ann Downey , Mrs West , and she understands that the intentions of the song are completely honourable . |
19 | It soon became clear that he had enjoyed having a free hand with Frank . |
20 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
21 | I want to have a good talk with Mr Makepeace and Mr Farraday … ’ |
22 | ‘ I want to have a little chat with you sometime , Bob , ’ he said . |
23 | He 'd had a blazing row with a ‘ Foreign Office Johnnie ’ , and was on the point of bursting when a third voice had come onto the line . |
24 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
25 | A couple of winters ago , caught out on a patch of ice , she 'd had a mild argument with a lamppost , damaging more or less the same spot that had been damaged again today . |
26 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
27 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
28 | Not surprisingly , however , Sharpe , who less than two years previously seemed to have a golden future with United and England , was scared stiff . |
29 | The girl is said to have a poor relationship with her father and the prospect that he might return to the family home , after a period of estrangement from his wife , prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act . |
30 | And he added , ‘ Ah 'd like to have a wee chat with those two , find out a bit more about them . |