Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] have the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only have the small size winder , perhaps one day I might get the larger size ; I bought it from PDB Engineering . |
| 2 | That was when I just had the one fellow . |
| 3 | I just had the bloody thing valeted . ’ |
| 4 | I always have the main meal and the sweet , Stu Stuart has a starter and the main meal . |
| 5 | On impulse I picked up the phone and rang her , hoping I still had the right number . |
| 6 | I still have the grinding rumble of Tilly Tilling 's tanks in my mind . |
| 7 | I 've kept touching you because I still have the greatest difficulty keeping my hands off you , but I was also doing Simon 's trick , attempting to nudge fate along . |
| 8 | I still have the entire documentation of this sorry episode in my archive . |
| 9 | Mother did once give me a tin of toffees , all wrapped in gold paper , which was a special treat — I still have the pretty tin , all pink , red and gold . |
| 10 | Maybe but I still have the back page of the torygraph framed . |
| 11 | I still have the receipted hotel bill for that night . |
| 12 | ’ — and I still have the same name in the telephone directory , ’ snarled Gina . |
| 13 | Paul Mellon : The book has n't in any way curtailed my privacy because I still have the same life ; I still have people to answer the telephone ; I still have a private airplane and my travel plans are unannounced ; and I lead my own life . |
| 14 | I still have the big iron mangle she used to wring out the clothes . |
| 15 | A good bit of it was selfish , but I also had the strange wish to see if I could ‘ take it ’ , and to take my military service worthwhile . |
| 16 | I also had the exciting experience of meeting Hugh Gaitskell in the late 1950s . |
| 17 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 18 | ‘ On the other side of the coin , there is so much to learn from the producers and conductors I now have the greatest privilege to work with . |
| 19 | I now have the inescapable anxiety that someone will now diligently correct every word of the above , perhaps by using some computerised method for checking spelling . |
| 20 | ‘ It was a game no one wanted to play and I now have the added problem of a key defender , Lee Howarth , collecting a bad knee injury . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , and could I please have the hot-water ration today , Mama ? |
| 22 | So I actually have the same brochure twice . |
| 23 | I never had the least interest in games . |
| 24 | Let me assure you , I never had the slightest doubt we would stay in Division Three . |
| 25 | I never had the slightest worry about him from then on . |
| 26 | I never had the slightest intention of challenging Mrs Thatcher . |
| 27 | ‘ I enjoyed it , but I never had the lucky break . |
| 28 | I never have the slightest idea what she 's thinking . |
| 29 | For I too have the same taint of ‘ foolishness ’ upon me as my great-uncle Fred , though I 've so far escaped the anguish of his illness . |
| 30 | This position is echoed by Lehrer ( 1987 : 256 ) , who states that " to has no meaning of its own " , by Buyssens ( 1987 : 341 ) , who asserts that it is a " well-known fact that when the infinitive is used as the subject , the predicate , or the direct object of the sentence , it is normally preceded by a meaningless to " , and by Andersson ( 1985 : 57 ) , who distinguishes between the preposition to , which has a meaning , and the pure to infinitive marker , " which only has the syntactic function to introduce [ sic ] an infinitive " . |