Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [verb] 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 | ‘ When I made Midnight Express I had to play a man who was in a permanent messed-up state . |
3 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
6 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
7 | ‘ 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 . |
8 | ‘ Of course I 've got a minute — what the bloody hell d' you think I 'm doing here at this time of night ? ’ |
9 | Of course I 've got a family ! |
10 | 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 . |
11 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
12 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
13 | During the hot summers I 've had a lot of lettuce and tomato with maybe a bit of fruit . |
14 | By means of the Alexander Technique I have acquired an awareness of where my body is in space which means I am now able to control my muscle tension by means of my brain ; this is essential if I was ever to maintain a posture without straining my body unconsciously . |
15 | There 's one happening today in ten minutes I 've got a car waiting outside |
16 | Sure enough , within a couple of minutes I had raised a trucker . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | In that cell I 've got a formula , just multiply the number above by the number of the left . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 |
23 | Do n't Kyle I 've got a headache . |
24 | Mummy I 've got a police one |
25 | Bye bye Rebecca , bye Amy , bye Matthew , bye Richard I 've got a load of videos in here the triplets left on Friday . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | The rules relating to inadmissible reservations and objections thereto can confuse the relationship even between States which have ratified a treaty . |