Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a low income and no more than £8,000 savings , you may qualify for Income Support , which is paid weekly and tops up any Income you have to a level set by the Government . |
| 2 | The unusual job I have for a few weeks is to collect unpublished or limited circulation material for whizzkid computer boffins in Oxford to tag and analyse on computers . |
| 3 | Of course the moth went for the light , Jay went under the pillow , and the moth settled on a huge picture she had of a golden African dawn . |
| 4 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 5 | There are those who claim to be able to tell you psychically just who you were and what sort of life you had in a previous existence . |
| 6 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 7 | He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away . |
| 8 | I ca n't leave this part of the world without relating a story about another , less grisly trophy , carried home from Sutherland ; and the link it had with a polluted , southern stream , the White Cart , which empties into the Clyde estuary . |
| 9 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 10 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 11 | These J Wave scientists are investigating Britain 's club culture at close hand , and Norman Cook is the nearest thing they have to a perfect specimen . |
| 12 | I remember particularly well a long discussion we had on a bright sunny day in Austria in 1983 , on the subject of the relative importance of car and driver . |
| 13 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |