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

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1 As a car driver I have conflicting reactions to hitchers .
2 ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’
3 Mum I 've that thing with a hole in it .
4 It may seem that I 've never taken my title seriously , but below the skin I have great respect for it , and for this house too and the men who have gone before me who made it .
5 Oops , in my last mail I had 12 players in the lineup .
6 Tell Johnny and Den I have another job for them .
7 Well I think he 's at my other school before common entrance I had this teacher for two years got forty percent and that 's .
8 If such an attractive new influence could be spread abroad in the world , where so many people long for a religion which has that ring of truth , the detection of which is a priceless human ability acquired down through the ages and not to be denied , there would be a growing number of adherents rallying to it .
9 I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English .
10 The NIBA are going for their fourth successive Under 25 title since the championship took the place of the meaningless Junior Championship in 1990 , and it will be a very hard mission for the PGL to upset the talented Parks side which has tremendous strength in depth .
11 ‘ Maybe that is true , but I ca n't see how it will deter a side which has superior scrummaging from trying to use it in such a situation ’ , said Ken Rowlands , the WRU director of refereeing .
12 A college which has close relations with a variety of companies with a good record in training can point young people in the direction of these ‘ good ’ employers .
13 To develop a meaningful measure of readmission which has any validity as a measure of clinical care requires that the admission be unplanned , related to the index admission , and in some way avoidable .
14 However it was thought by its sponsors to represent a programme which had some possibility of acceptance by the bodies to which the petition would be presented .
15 We are going through an extensive , 3 month training programme which has professional recognition in Social Work .
16 This has one very important result which has great significance in relation to alternatives .
17 When we were making the recording I have to say it made me feel completely happy ; it is a piece which has such perfection of form .
18 ( The Love Feast was an early Methodist institution which had some elements in common with the Communion service but did not set to duplicate it and was certainly not an attempt to replace it .
19 In fact , school is an institution which has little meaning for ‘ the lads ’ : it has merely to be ‘ got through ’ as enjoyably as possible — by ‘ having a laff ’ and rehearsing the loyalties and possibilities for defiance and resistance which will be carried over into work .
20 You may be in an institution which has video-viewing facilities in the library and a selection of English language programmes for learners to borrow .
21 In a crime which had front-page headlines in the Star on consecutive days , the London Evening Standard noted that the police were ‘ looking into similarities with the rape of a 10-year-old girl in Hemel Hempstead five months ago ’ .
22 that of robbing the victim , a defendant who has sexual intercourse with her whilst she is insensible will not be guilty of rape .
23 He was a Protestant lawyer who had enormous prestige among Derry Catholics for his work in combating injustices against them in the courts .
24 And then of course he gives classical precedence for this Tireseus , Orpheus , those poets who had magical powers , Homer , who suggests not only frugal diet , but chastity will be the best preparation for the poet who has this task in hand .
25 Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form .
26 Wool we had big bales of wool come in and once wool was packed together and banded , that was heavy .
27 As a result they have considerable doubts about the validity of the case for the control of mergers .
28 The counsel told the court : ‘ In Patel 's car they had loud music on and there was a certain amount of laughing going on .
29 Near the sea there is a little park which has open-air cafés in it and I decided that I would go along there and read your letter while I relaxed with a cup of coffee .
30 It 's the recession nobody has any money for that kind of thing …
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