Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] have [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As for the class of goods , where commercial goods are concerned the party acquiring them presumably has some expertise in relation to them which gives him the capability to assess their quality or to understand if he needs to call in an expert assessor , so that less protection should be required in this case .
2 And I only had one scene with him .
3 After that we became disinterested in each other and I only had three weeks to the deadline , a last-minute decision to make , but I suppose I 'm one of the lucky ones because my parents were behind me all the way .
4 So before you 're about to criticise the Spectrum , ask yourself this question : if I did n't have a computer and I was trying to look for one and I only had enough money for the Spectrum , what would I do ?
5 what would you like from the catalogue sort of thing and I only had this catalogue to Cos I pa you know I paid for it what di did they have ?
6 erm I only have another month in office .
7 But I had nobody , and now I suddenly have three relations in my world , or two , if you do n't want to be counted . ’
8 Other night we had bacon and egg and I did n't fancy it very much so I just had two slices of bacon and one egg and made a couple of sandwiches out of it .
9 I tell ya , I just , I just had this sort of yearning for chocolate , ooh
10 I just have one qualification in that how that their main aim is erm to erm promote a rich peasant economy , that is their
11 Of course , I already had some experience with the various falconers ' knots and changing jesses with a bird perched on my fist , but poor old Derek got himself a bit tied up .
12 With five and even three elements I always had one element in the centre .
13 I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain :
14 ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , trying to find excuses for himself , ‘ I reckon I always had some sort of imminence because I 'd feel a hunch rolling up inside me like a breaker on the ocean and I 'd just know what was going to win .
15 I always had this thing in the back of my mind that I 'd like to be Head Gardener at Killerton one day , because of the type of garden it is , because of its size and because of the plant content .
16 It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly .
17 It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity .
18 ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour — to be a woman in control but sexy and fun .
19 ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour .
20 An amazing difference occurred ; the guitar suddenly became cleaner , clearer when played acoustically and through an amp , plus I still had full use of the tremolo unit .
21 soc : I 'm sorry , but I still have real problems with this picture of the experiment as an ideal .
22 I am a product of the British legacy of colonialism : the reason why I ended up here , why I stayed , and why I still have one foot out the door .
23 I still have negative thoughts about running against her , ’ she confessed from her New Mexico home yesterday .
24 At the end of the day I still have strong reservations about the software , eighteen months ago it would have been fine but exposure to everything from 1–2–3 to Open Access has left me expecting rather more from an integrated package .
25 I still have 18 months of my contract to run .
26 I still have some problems with the idioms , ’ he said .
27 ‘ The force of the blast ripped the buckle off my watch and I still have some bits of shrapnel inside me , which will make their way out . ’
28 And I do believe I still have some influence with my husband . ’
29 ‘ It seems that I still have some friends in Swansea , ’ Edward said softly , ‘ no-one could convict me on such trumped-up evidence .
30 I 'm not saying I 'm going to have one of these Grand Slam win breakthroughs , but I think I still have enough tennis in me to have a few more great moments .
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