Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations .
2 I just happened to have a photograph .
3 I could not re I did n't go , I er , I just wanted to have a look at them but I , I could n't resist it .
4 Maybe I just need to have a change . ’
5 I just want to have a look around it .
6 I just want to have a word with someone . ’
7 I just want to have a word with Suzi . ’
8 I just want to have a child of my own . ’
9 Yet I desperately want to have a friend or two to socialise with .
10 I once had to have a leg replaced when a couple of Hunters tore mine off .
11 Such a simple idea , I always thought to have a wall of panelled doors that folded back .
12 " I always wanted to have a child , " said a nineteen-year-old woman living on a Sunderland housing estate with her parents .
13 CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did .
14 Straightaway , " Mum , " I said , " I still want to have a bike badly . "
15 I really came to have a word with Charles Julian .
16 I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 .
17 I simply had to have a break .
18 I then had to have a hysterectomy .
19 I then decided to have a work-out on the weights .
20 Eastwood admitted : ‘ I definitely want to have a go in Australia .
21 I never intended to have a relationship with you .
22 Caught by the uplift of hot air from the fluorescent tubes , all the smoke was drawn into the hood and onto the water 's surface , which just happened to have a protein skimmer waiting to mix it into solution .
23 Says 15-year-old David Stokes : ‘ There are quite a few boys who just have to have a girlfriend , but it 's not what we all feel .
24 You just wanted to have a change ?
25 it 's not a problem so if you just want to have a look round up there and sort of come here
26 She just wanted to have a look .
27 But you see you still have to have a person there while we 're
28 A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books .
29 and then you also need to have a surplus so that you can erm pay for industrialization , and you ca n't tax , tax the poor too much to fit into your ideology so at the end of the day , you know , well it 's a matter of just balancing all these factors
30 She also wanted to have a Sunday dinner , whenever possible , in the style of Willis , who followed the bargemen 's custom of serving first sultana pudding with gravy , and then the roast .
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