Example sentences of "[pron] have a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But singers with this ability ( and who also have absolute pitch ) are not very common , and if we want to have our music sung by the majority of singers , it is best to write within the normal limits : Many singers can exceed these limits , but we must remember that , apart from the fact that most people these days have middle-range voices , everyone has a limited zone in which the voice is at its best . |
| 2 | However , nothing has a better chance in the Rous Conditions Stakes than Solar Wagon . |
| 3 | Ask yourself ‘ What are the pay-offs of being shy , and do I have a vested interest in maintaining them ? ’ |
| 4 | I had a rough idea in my mind , before going to Portugal , of the approximate shape and design of the picture I wanted to create . |
| 5 | Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis . |
| 6 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 7 | Bill and I had a great deal in common . |
| 8 | ‘ I had a splendid time in London , ’ he added , with an air of triumph . |
| 9 | Much later in the book I had a small scene in which one character is seen just about to tell the murderer , who was not conceivably present when the Maharajah perpetrated his joke , what had happened . |
| 10 | I had a small breather in which to feel pleased that there was this part of me that could take over , like an automatic pilot , and carry on as usual . |
| 11 | To end on a happier note , I had a marvellous time in the robot business . |
| 12 | Alan Anderson , Monsanto Quality Manager , presented the award and made these comments : ‘ I had a personal interest in this one because I 've been working on the application of quality to safety management which is what the Rubber Chemicals Safety Improvement team is all about . |
| 13 | I had a similar experience in the vestibule of the BBC with an interviewee from the Festival of Light who was declaiming the sins of magazines with open-crotch poses so loudly that I had to pretend I was n't with him . |
| 14 | I had a similar experience in the Byrom Street . |
| 15 | On reading R. Penfold 's article in the April ‘ 92 issue of Everyday Electronics , I had a similar query in my mind to that of Mr G. I. Smith ( Everyday Readout May'92 ) . |
| 16 | Buster bought a very old and very large American motor car — I believe the price was £10 and , being probably one of the poorest of apprentices at the time , I had a 10 share in this syndicate . |
| 17 | I had a good friend in Marius , who had been in the Swedish Army before joining the Legion . |
| 18 | I will always maintain that I had a good time in service , and from what I heard there were n't many bad places in the Teesdale area — just the odd one here and there . |
| 19 | In her letter of acknowledgement and thanks the lady wrote , ‘ I would have written sooner but I had a strained muscle in my leg ’ . |
| 20 | If I had a little money in a rich man 's world . |
| 21 | Then I would be accused of being a racist , take this for example , I was down at lower school , I had a black girl in my class , she did something or another . |
| 22 | I had a fixed image in my head of what I wanted to become , culled from history books and magazine articles in Paris Match . |
| 23 | Now I had a new mission in life — to ensure that every tinker caravan in Ireland contained a picture of a donkey dancing while a devil played the fiddle . |
| 24 | I had a slow-growing tumour in the lung and it would take time to reach obnoxious proportions , but as sure as the moon will rise and set and the tides with it , so my tumour would go on grinding away until … |
| 25 | I had a lovely seat in the front row of the circle , beside Sir Roger Falk , a most entertaining companion who was Chairman of the Sadler 's Wells Foundation for ten years , and is now Vice-President of the Foundation , for which Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother is patron , and Princess Margaret is President . |
| 26 | I had a huge hole in my wrist , the skin taken off my hand . |
| 27 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
| 28 | I di last night when I was up there and he said to me what was that noise , I went through all the piles and I had a quick look in the bureau but , I did n't find that , I do n't know what I 've done with that |
| 29 | Luckily I had a little book in my pocket called Anaesthetics For Medical Students . |
| 30 | My brother Rollo and I had a consuming interest in cricket and knew the names and performances of all first-class cricketers from about 1946 onwards . |