Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm gon na turn it off for a little while until everyone starts having a proper conversation . |
| 2 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 3 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 4 | Four patients have developed recurrent stones , one of whom has had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy , a second who is about to have a laparoscopic procedure , and two who are free of symptoms . |
| 5 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 6 | The red chair where I sit has a long seat , comfortable for a tall person . |
| 7 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to have a good look round Mr Livesey 's rooms . |
| 9 | I want to have a good talk with Mr Makepeace and Mr Farraday … ’ |
| 10 | At this point , someone might rightly argue : ‘ I happen to live on earth , and it is here that I want to have a happy marriage ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I want to have a little chat with you sometime , Bob , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Well I I want to have a big picture of England on the wall on which I can start to tick off bits as we get them . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to have a full career here and I could n't think of a better way to do that . |
| 14 | I seemed to have a separate brain for each limb , but they 'd all broken off diplomatic relations . |
| 15 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 16 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 17 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 18 | I 'd had a good week . |
| 19 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
| 20 | Quite right ; but I 'd had a vague recollection , and looked it up , and although the shirt of the centaur Nessus , saturated as it was in his poisoned blood , had caused Hercules no end of pain … |
| 21 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 22 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 23 | ‘ If only I 'd had a stable childhood , maybe none of this would have happened … . ’ |
| 24 | But this morning she caught me unawares before I 'd had a single cup of coffee . |
| 25 | I 'd had a soft erection before , but as our mouths collided — we had n't even been able to kiss all week ! — it hardened up painfully . |
| 26 | In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses . |
| 27 | If I 'd had a proper education do you think I 'd be driving this cab around ? ’ |
| 28 | It was as if I 'd had a bad dream . |
| 29 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 30 | ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus . |