Example sentences of "[pron] have a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 2 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 3 | When I reluctantly put him back in his shoe box , I had a desperate need to be close to ‘ Fred ’ the person . |
| 4 | The voice stopped and I had a similar feeling to the one I had just before I found Toby trussed up in his cupboard . |
| 5 | In wounded puzzlement I had a sudden flashback to the time immediately after Dunkirk , when Leslie had referred to the projected formation of a parachute corps , and to service in it as ‘ absolute certain death ’ in a ‘ suicide squad ’ . |
| 6 | I had a natural ability to entirely forget the theatre when at home , and vice versa , which was extremely useful . |
| 7 | For a while though , I had a psychological block to sailing in fresher winds because I thought my weight and strength was not up to it . |
| 8 | I was n't really disappointed at all ; I had a devil-may-care attitude to my athletics . |
| 9 | But they loved me so passionately that I had a secure base to my life . ’ |
| 10 | Despite our wariness of exclusivity , if I had a satisfactory answer to my first question ( somewhere along the lines of : we pay nothing and lose none of the candidate fee ! ) |
| 11 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 12 | I 've a perfect right to my feelings . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ They think I just sit back if I have a good start to the season . |
| 14 | On the other hand , my own feeling would be very much that schools have to prepare children for taking their life in the community and the community is mixed sex , it 's not single sex , so I have a slight aversion to single sex institutions . |
| 15 | As a prospective candidate for the Scottish National Party , and , indeed , Home Affairs member of the SNP 's Scottish Cabinet , I have a strong commitment to the project of Scottish independence in Europe . |
| 16 | ‘ The truth is , ’ he admitted to Alan Griffiths , ‘ I have a constant temptation to over asperity … even when there is no subjective anger to prompt me : it comes , I think , from the pleasure of using the English language forcibly — i.e. it is not a species of Ira but of Superbia . |
| 17 | I have a sensible solution to this argument . |
| 18 | ‘ We have strength in depth and nobody has a God-given right to any position . ’ |
| 19 | Spinnaker ripstop must not be confused with its near relative , Balloon ripstop which has a stretchy feeling to its touch , comes on 137cm ( 54in ) rolls and does not crease . |
| 20 | Security from the membership of a large group which has a major commitment to the growth of Name ; |
| 21 | Even with PostScript , which has a proven route to typesetting via the Linotron 100 and 300 , variations can occur — not all of them minor . |
| 22 | By making such distinctions Goody is constructing a model in which literacy is conceived of as ‘ autonomous ’ and which has a built-in tendency to determinism . |
| 23 | To get more information I would recommend getting hold of issue one of Practical PC which has a step-by-step guide to fitting a hard disk . |
| 24 | Of the twenty-eight varieties of rootstock permitted in the cultivation of Champagne 's vineyards , the most significant ones are : the 41 B Millardet et Grasset , which has a fair resistance to phylloxera and an excellent active lime resistance ( up to 40% ) ; the Selection Oppenheim No. 4 or So 4 , which has very good phylloxera resistance and reasonable active lime resistance ( up to 18% ) ; and the 3309 Couderc , which has excellent resistance to phylloxera and fair resistance to active lime ( up to 11% ) . |
| 25 | A company which has a subsidiary undertaking to which these requirements do not apply must take all reasonable steps to secure that the subsidiary keeps such records as will enable the directors of the parent company to ensure that any balance sheet and profit and loss account prepared under Part VII complies with the Act 's requirements . |
| 26 | Even if you do n't go into consumer public relations which has an immediate relationship to selling , you will get to know the public as a consumer , get to understand how business is done , what product selling points are all about , and finally , learn how to sell yourself . |
| 27 | Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine , not renowned as a shrinking violet , entered Downing Street from the bottom end , took one look at the array of pressmen and crept into No 12 , which has an interior walkway to No 10 . |
| 28 | Another organic textbook is Introduction to Organic Chemistry by Andrew Streitwieser Jr and Clayton Heathcock ( Collier Macmillan , 2nd ed 1981 ) which has an excellent approach to spectroscopy . |
| 29 | The potential of the method is , however , illustrated by experiments undertaken on a mutant variety of tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum ) , which has an inbred resistance to the antibiotic streptomycin , and petunia ( Petunia hybrida ) . |
| 30 | The church was built for the adjacent Ursuline convent which has an attractive courtyard to the right of the church . |