Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I was running a film company , a charity , modelling and doing the BBC Good Sport I had four careers going .
2 The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris .
3 Tonight we 'll devote all our time to the National as here in Central South we have eleven horses running at Aintree , in what 's regarded as one of the greatest horse races in the world .
4 The disk icon allows you to load actors , the dustbin trashes them from memory , and the third icon allows you to have the actor animated , in case you have similar actors doing different things .
5 er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be
6 We 're not dealing with an old dying structure industry like the steel industry or coal , we 're dealing with a mass consumer industry with high technology and in the middle ; in our town we have British Rover closing a company which was financed for 14 years by public money ; by public of this town paying their taxes to keep that company going and now in the middle of a massive boom for cars they want to propose closure and that point was dramatically highlighted this afternoon .
7 In biology he had much observation to support him but in ‘ physics ’ he had no experimental evidence worth mentioning .
8 Unlike previous studies comparing elemental diet with corticosteroids , in this trial we have stratified patients according to nutritional state before randomisation .
9 I used to call him Pear , and one day I had this tattoo done .
10 It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside .
11 In any event he had little time to give careful immediate consideration to the letter ; he merely wrote a short reply pressing Balfour to reconsider his position .
12 no , no , my Lord I have three applications to make in the light of the evidence given by Mr yesterday and this witness today , er the first is this in terms of this witnesses evidence , I do n't know whether your Lordship appreciated it , but I certainly did in terms of evidence , that in cases of some brochures there were a number of editions , in other words first , second and maybe third edition
13 By a curious coincidence , this month you have two chances to buy depictions of the Grand-ducal coronet of Tuscany destroyed during the Napoleonic invasions .
14 Alternate benches were so made that the back could be swung over so that by a simple movement you had two benches facing each other instead of one behind the other and back-to-back with the adjoining classes , the teacher sitting on a chair between the ends of the benches .
15 ‘ I would like us to put a run together until the end of the season we have three games left and we have to try to be professional and win them all . ’
16 ‘ When I was at Island we had open days consisting of a succession of 40 minute meetings .
17 As a foreigner she had great difficulty getting admitted there as an apprentice , but eventually succeeded with assistance from the Duke of Orleans .
18 As consumers in a capitalist society we have great power to bring pressure to bear .
19 It was these which made progress relatively slow , and which on occasions even led the High Authority to bow down to views expressed in the Special Council of Ministers even where under the treaty it had undisputed authority to act .
20 Now of course he has two failures to build upon .
21 It was the only thing she had that Guido had given her .
22 With shareware you have ample time to try before you buy , discovering all the programs abilities , and testing it on your own computer .
23 But with Pyke to impress in the audience we had good reason to spring energetically over the scaffolding .
24 Moreover , the Germans had no desire to be saddled with more of BAOR 's sector of the front : they had enough on their hands under-pinning the Dutch and Belgian corps , whose military worth they had good reasons to doubt in the late 1950s .
25 This time last year I had eight goats given to me from eight different people .
26 And Lot sixty three is the red Gem carrier arm now showing with an N reproducer I have sixty pounds offered , any more at sixty ?
27 Mum always stood up for Liza , her longtime favourite , telling Dad she had enough sense to know what was right and wrong , but I doubted she did .
28 This weekend she has another opportunity to show her talent , and a special throw which she has been perfecting , when she competes in the British Open at Crystal Palace .
29 On the other side of the coin this year we have mainstream authors plying their trade in classic sf territory — Robert Harris and P D James to name two .
30 Every year we have several people going missing there .
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