Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 and leave you free to do a job , because you may think I mean , believe it or I 've turned this room inside out today !
2 Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills .
3 If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites .
4 If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in .
5 Needless to say Lord Elphinstone did not hesitate to respond to the challenge and rallied his friends , while at the same time pointedly expressing his hope , when writing to the duke , that ‘ neither my friend or I have done any thing to deserve your Grace 's withdrawing your friendship , interest & protection ’ .
6 Her will declares that more than £219,000 should go to Cornell College , Mount Vernon , Iowa , in the U.S. , where she had studied English literature .
7 And seeing you 've got another life inside you , it must be doing something to them must n't it ?
8 Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) .
9 If a friend or colleague whose opinions you respect tells you that he or she has received beneficial treatment from a particular hypnotherapist , perhaps that is the one for you to consult .
10 For the tutor it is the seventh conversation about The Prelude he or she has had that week .
11 In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company .
12 Patients with abnormal findings at endoscopy or who had had previous surgery were excluded from the study .
13 He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll .
14 In the US , where we have applied corrective action to unprofitable lines , we continue to benefit from the successful introduction of rating increases .
15 This is illustrated by Pignataro v. Gilroy ( 1919 K.B. ) where we have seen that property passed to the buyer under section 18 , rule 5 .
16 Or we 've used one set at E R C.
17 where they 've got that ghost in the house
18 The Liberal Democrats had the highest share of the vote in several authorities where they have proven local government strength .
19 Possible Lower Palaeozoic sources will only be of interest where they have escaped premature maturation brought on by burial under thick Devonian cover , a factor very difficult to assess ahead of analytical work in areas where the Devonian has itself suffered erosion .
20 This means assessing their likes and dislikes by means of preference tests where they can simply choose between different options , or ‘ operant conditioning ’ tests where they have to perform some task such as pecking a button to get access to ( or to exit from ) a particular environment .
21 Inadequate timetabling , the organisation of lessons during lunchtimes and instead of normal lessons or assemblies , the allocation of unsatisfactory classrooms , the poor arrangement of furniture for learning purposes , the lack of suitable materials — all these factors tend to discourage learners of community languages , especially where they have had little influence on the choice of their subject options when a community language is involved .
22 The senior nurse now acts as a support , resource and coordinator and a flattened hierarchy results : the senior nurse is the key to the professional development of staff who often come from a traditional nursing culture , where they have had little accountability .
23 Either their flight had been delayed , or they had taken one look at this sober crew and retired aghast .
24 In April 1965 Crawford opened with Harry H. Corbett in a new comedy , Travelling Light , at the Prince of Wales Theatre , where he had enjoyed such success in Come Blow Your Horn .
25 In Berchtesgaden , where Hitler had his home on the Obersalzberg , and where he had enjoyed special veneration in former days , the SD reported that his speech on New Year 's Eve merely elicited the response that it ‘ brought nothing new ’ , and there was ‘ hardly any credibility worth mentioning ’ left for his last broadcast speech on 30 January 1945 .
26 I had watched Quintin under pressure during the Suez crisis where he had shown admirable calm at the Admiralty in testing circumstances ; and while I had some misgivings about his famous ‘ judgement ’ I felt that he could take on the leadership and the job of Prime Minister , and make a success of it .
27 An immensely confident batsman , Gooch is at his most bullish against the West Indians , where he has found great success .
28 An immensely confident batsman , Gooch is at his most bullish against the West Indians , where he has found great success .
29 My argument here is not on that issue , since the focus of their attention was on Parliament and parliamentary procedure and I want to introduce the other side of reform into the debate — where it has received insufficient attention .
30 Once again I would stress that neither my client nor I have made any approach to the company apart from this letter .
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