Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And your setting will be even more integrated into your book than was the setting in the sort of story I have called a backgrounder . |
| 2 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I 've got a minute — what the bloody hell d' you think I 'm doing here at this time of night ? ’ |
| 6 | Of course I 've got a family ! |
| 7 | I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention . |
| 8 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 9 | During the hot summers I 've had a lot of lettuce and tomato with maybe a bit of fruit . |
| 10 | There 's one happening today in ten minutes I 've got a car waiting outside |
| 11 | Sure enough , within a couple of minutes I had raised a trucker . |
| 12 | And during the past two decades of my involvement with the people of the Alto I have seen a discourse on nervos and sickness replace a discourse on angry hunger . |
| 13 | In that cell I 've got a formula , just multiply the number above by the number of the left . |
| 14 | It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared . |
| 15 | In the past six months I 've worn a pair for a variety of purposes , from rock climbing to trekking , from gardening to pubbing and they 're still presentable . |
| 16 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 17 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 18 | Do n't Kyle I 've got a headache . |
| 19 | Mummy I 've got a police one |
| 20 | Bye bye Rebecca , bye Amy , bye Matthew , bye Richard I 've got a load of videos in here the triplets left on Friday . |
| 21 | In higher grade cases , some Down 's people have undergone operations , either at their own or their parents ' instigation , to alter the physical characteristics which have become a stigma for them . |
| 22 | For another ten years not a soul had dared enter it , until the snake-hunters steeled themselves to descend in pursuit of a python which had consumed a child in the dry season of 1969 . |
| 23 | The site of the present Transport Offices is here occupied by an old Marton Box car which has collected a cable-drum from the railway siding of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Rigby Road . |
| 24 | What he had n't mentioned was that we would be dining out in restaurants which had attracted a nod from Michelin , a faint damn from Gault-Millau or a paragraph of wet-dream prose in a British Sunday . |
| 25 | The rules relating to inadmissible reservations and objections thereto can confuse the relationship even between States which have ratified a treaty . |
| 26 | OPPOSITION is mounting to a controversial rule which has robbed a Middlesbrough student of his last chance to run in the English Schools Cross Country Championships . |
| 27 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 28 | The Bank Branches Directive , which is complementary to the Eleventh Directive , sets out the special requirements relating to disclosure of accounting documents by a credit or financial institution which has established a branch in a member state but has its head office elsewhere . |
| 29 | An old and convivial haunt which has undergone a number of recent changes but outwardly at least still retains much of its fishing port atmosphere . |
| 30 | Pérez promised , however , to promote closer co-operation with the DEA which had opened a branch office in the western city of Maracaibo , but maintained a smaller presence there than in neighbouring countries . |