Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun pl] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was with him for four hours and got nowhere ; I requested colleagues to have a crack at him all to no avail . |
| 2 | mm I reckon pirates had a go at that you know |
| 3 | I think circumstances have a lot to do with it though . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We are doing our best to ensure that fans are well-behaved and I think players have a responsibility too . ’ |
| 5 | The fact that those practices which became fundholders had a history of referring patients across district boundaries to a greater extent than the controls in our study may provide an indication of their motivation for joining the scheme . |
| 6 | ‘ A trusted cashier committing embezzlement , a minister who evades payment of his taxes , a teacher making sexual advances towards minors and a civil servant who accepts bribes have a fear of detection which is more closely linked with the dread of public scandal and subsequent social ruin than with apprehensions of legal punishment . ’ |
| 7 | Right , the , I was , about to er come to that , erm the erm , there is no reason why a group should not have more than one prisoner erm , the practical situation is that , that groups are queuing up to , to get a prisoner at the moment in fact , erm , not always the situation but at presently there is a waiting list for who have groups to have a prisoner allocated to them , erm , if we so wish er , ah , if , if a group comes onto the list who has er , ah , and their prisoner is released and , and we , we er in that situation we , and any group without a prisoner at all goes to the head of the list and be allocated straight away , but we could request a second prisoner and that case would be put to the bottom of the list , so when the other groups who , who 've got no prison will take priority now , but we , we could request a second prisoner if we so wanted so you are talking about a motion at the A G M , but it 's not really necessary |
| 8 | Someone who believes that abortion is murder will think that the checkerboard abortion statute produces more injustice than outright prohibition and less than outright license ; someone who believes women have a right to abortion reverses these judgments . |
| 9 | But they recognised schools had a problem dealing with diversity . |
| 10 | What can I do to get her to allow others to have a say ? |
| 11 | He reckons suppliers have a choice : stick with lower prices and compromise on quality or raise prices and maintain high standards . |