Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also thought I 'd written a better poem because I 'd struggled with the voice , forced myself to hear it again in my mind and to reply to it . |
| 2 | Would I have cut a greater dash in the world ? |
| 3 | I had expected a sharper tongue in the office , a brisker and more brittle approach to the anarchic thoughtlessness of the girls . |
| 4 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
| 5 | And Ipswich team manager Mick McGiven , Monkou 's former coach at Stamford Bridge , said : ‘ I do n't think I 've seen a better marking job on Chris . ’ |
| 6 | No , I 've had a better idea ! |
| 7 | I 've got a better idea . " |
| 8 | ‘ We could manage without it , but — No , I 've got a better idea . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've got a better idea , ’ Sam said , leaning forward . |
| 10 | Well , I 've got a better idea . |
| 11 | I know wait a minute , wait a minute , I 've got a better idea . |
| 12 | I 've got a better job . ’ |
| 13 | Oh yes I 've got a further list down here . |
| 14 | ‘ Each year I have noticed a higher standard of living ’ , the bishop wrote in his eulogy of this ‘ brave man ’ , whose ‘ exceedingly generous ’ treatment of the churches in Romania was something of which ‘ we in Britain might well be envious ’ . |
| 15 | IT 'S a long time since I have seen a finer performance than Tom Courtenay is giving at the Traverse . |
| 16 | ‘ Mary , dear , one night when I have made a better meal than I did tonight , I plan to go a little berserk , too , in order to have your solace . ’ |
| 17 | For all that I have learned a greater variety of games , there are fewer I can tolerate . |
| 18 | But I I 'm wearing them all a little bit longer , except in the the winter cos I ca n't ca n't alter my coat I have got a longer summer coat to wear but the the one I had last year erm all the skirt showed beneath , I could n't walk about like that . |
| 19 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 20 | The way ahead for paleontologists trying to build up a knowledge of evolution has been spurred on by the revolution in plate tectonics , which has provided a better understanding of the stratigraphic record and fossilized data . |
| 21 | A plaque on a wall is admittedly not much to look at for those with a passion for working machinery and dramatic industrial landscapes , but this one marks the site of the foundation of that industry which has had a greater impact on civilization than any other . |
| 22 | The paper selected was almost inevitably the Sunday Telegraph , which had displayed a greater sympathy for the Biafran cause than most . |
| 23 | Argov himself had written an earlier letter of such hostility that it had to be returned by the paper because its contents were regarded by lawyers at The Times as potentially defamatory . |
| 24 | Nothing gives so bad an impression to the other members of the committee and to the officers present than a member who talks without having read his agenda papers , or who has missed an earlier meeting where the matter was fully discussed or who talks for the sake of talking on every subject . |
| 25 | He lost Manoj Prabhakar , carried away by the exuberance of his own and everybody else 's strokeplay , but Kapil Dev survives - and he is the only Indian who has made a faster Test hundred than Azharuddin 's . |
| 26 | Her GP informed us that she has had a further recurrence of left hemiparesis and , after investigation , the provisional diagnosis is demyelination . |
| 27 | What about if you 'd received a harsher sentence ? |
| 28 | ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’ |
| 29 | Not even for Christine , whom she 'd found distant and uninterested , as if in her mind she 'd created a better place and preferred to wander there . |
| 30 | He would have enjoyed the odd weekend in Brighton away from the pressures of London life , if only she 'd had a bigger flat . |