Example sentences of "[pron] have [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm allowed to have food , why ca n't I have it in the same cell as Elaine ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 3 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 4 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 5 | Do n't get me wrong — I 've nothing against the leather-clad hordes , for they are a cheerful fraternity . |
| 6 | " I 've nothing against the poor nips , " he said crossly ; " only , not now , we ca n't afford them now . " |
| 7 | I have nothing but the highest admiration for the quality and devotion of the work they have put into the care of the plaintiff over the last six and a half years . |
| 8 | I have it in the other room . ’ |
| 9 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |
| 10 | I have none in the whole world to call my own . |
| 11 | Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine . |
| 12 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 13 | In Venice she had nothing beyond the one case except for learning Italian , teaching English , sightseeing and trying to be patient with , and understand , her increasingly morose husband . |
| 14 | Not seeing Jane , however , was no cause for regret ; she had none of the kindly qualities of her husband . |
| 15 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 16 | We worked in a special class and at a cracking pace — with a man called Harris , who had none of the contemporary difficulties about aims and objectives . |
| 17 | you 're absolutely spot on , cos you had them on the other one did n't you ? |
| 18 | In the big American museums you no longer have brilliant ‘ star ’ directors the way you had them in the Sixties and Seventies people like Sherman Lee at Cleveland , Fred Cummings at Detroit , Tom Hoving at the Met who could manage 5,000 projects at once , either making brilliant acquisitions , or putting on unusual or daring exhibitions , or making outrageous statements that might get them censured today . |
| 19 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |
| 20 | You have nothing but the silliest of complaints against him . |
| 21 | By the time our forbears were established tree-dwellers , the cerebral hemispheres had almost lost their original association with smell , and with the great expansion of the parts devoted to vision , hearing , touch and movement , you have something like the modern primate brain . |
| 22 | have all the items numbered ( ref. not necessary here if you have it on the preparatory lists ) |
| 23 | Yes I leave on the eleventh of March so can we have it on the eight of March ? |
| 24 | Well could we have it on the sixth and change the committee day ? . |
| 25 | If only we had something of the social sense they had in Germany , we might manage to give our young people the experiences they ought to have … [ in Germany ] the rambling movement … [ has ] reached enormous proportions — 2,500 hostels provide shelter for 6d per night … . |
| 26 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 27 | Yeah they had them in the little packs , okay ? |
| 28 | They had me in the holding cells at headquarters . |
| 29 | They had nothing but the meagre income provided by supplementary benefit . |
| 30 | Not that they had anything against the original character or film ; far from it . |