Example sentences of "have a pair [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she has deep-set eyes her porte feminine is bound to be deep too … if a woman has a pair of big , sparkling eyes , her porte feminine is narrow at its entrance , and yet roomy in the inner part … |
| 2 | The Toyota has a pair of Simulknit levers labelled 0 and S. These should be on S for Simulknit and O for everything else . |
| 3 | The model 340 uses a standard 40MHz Sparc , the 360 and 370 have single 36MHz and 40MHz SuperSparcs respectively , while the 372 has a pair of 40MHz parts . |
| 4 | Andy has a pair of wellington boots . |
| 5 | If A has a pair of conjugate complex eigenvalues , then T is not strictly upper triangular : the diagonal includes a block of order 2 such as unc with unc on the diagonal of T and unc below it . |
| 6 | The male guppy , a small South American fish , has a pair of fins on his underside modified into a gun-like tube through which he fires small bullets of sperm at the female 's genital opening . |
| 7 | The skunk has a pair of these glands and not only can it vary the strength of each jet according to the side from which you approach but it is even able to twist the nozzle of the gland so that the spray shoots out at an angle . |
| 8 | It has a pair of small loudspeakers fitted inside , which you can connect to your PC 's sound card — much better than the Walkman speakers I normally hook up . |
| 9 | The swimming mollusc Nautilus , a rather strange squid-like creature that lives in a shell like the extinct ammonites and belemnites ( see the " shelled cephalopod " of Figure 5 ) , has a pair of pinhole cameras for eyes . |
| 10 | Mr Fallon , who has a pair of Barbour wellies , added : ‘ This is a slur on one of our greatest military heroes , ’ referring to the Duke of Wellington who gave the wellie its name . |
| 11 | My future stepmother has a pair on her , no doubt about it . |
| 12 | Tell you what you can have a pair for Christmas instead of a computer . |
| 13 | ‘ Could I have a pair of boots ? ’ |
| 14 | I could give them the key to Father 's safe and they 'd be so grateful they 'd have a pair of boots made specially for me . |
| 15 | Is this a mating ritual or do I have a pair of schizos in the tank ? |
| 16 | Why , I bet you do n't even have a pair of jeans . |
| 17 | ‘ I do have a pair of jeans , ’ Katherine said bleakly . |
| 18 | Your Pack should have a pair of semaphore flags . |
| 19 | I walk from the petrol station to the store roughly 14 times a day and if I did n't have a pair of inner soles in my flat shoes I 'd cry ! ’ |
| 20 | Oh good ah hang on er , three pairs there , seven , six and an eight , right there 's two blacks in sevens here , well I 'll just have a pair of each , I 've only got a fiver in me purse just wondering whether to get black or blue though ? |
| 21 | Can I have a pair of scissors , I think I 'll cut |
| 22 | Did he have a pair of tickets ? |
| 23 | This owl butterfly ( opposite ) uses a different deflection device , having a pair of small eye-spots near the trailing edge of its wings . |
| 24 | And I miss having a pair of arms round me . |
| 25 | I 'd like to have a pair of boots like a German officer . |
| 26 | Annie never knew what it was to have a pair of boots on her feet until she was ten . ’ |
| 27 | I would n't have known myself , but I happen to have a pair of ears in that establishment . |
| 28 | And erm we used to carry erm used to have a pair of binoculars with him and I used to have the old er telescope do you see . |
| 29 | In place of the modest flannel bags Lord Woodleigh had on , this fellow had a pair of white trousers , much too short for him , stained heavily on one side and showing beneath a pair of socks in a hideous approximation to a Scottish tartan . |
| 30 | To complete the outfit , Alison had a pair of Victorian ankle boots made in the same material as her dress , and got a local milliner to make her a stunning hat . |