Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And your setting will be even more integrated into your book than was the setting in the sort of story I have called a backgrounder .
2 If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients .
3 ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly .
4 ‘ Of course I 've got a minute — what the bloody hell d' you think I 'm doing here at this time of night ? ’
5 Of course I 've got a family !
6 In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it .
7 In that cell I 've got a formula , just multiply the number above by the number of the left .
8 It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared .
9 Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back .
10 And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy
11 and that 's where the back door is , in the other bedroom you 've got a ventilator you know but it 's not actually facing into the bedroom , it 's facing outwards towards the bathroom , you know and the stairs
12 Yeah well we 've got a job to do if you 're a soldier you 've got a job to do okay , you 've got a bit of training , you 've got a job to do
13 Well yeah I mean bear in mind bear in mind you 've got a week 's notice to put one together .
14 Well I do n't know until the , when it comes to college you 've got a hand one
15 Oh aye , she 's er , she 's done a , she 's done a course and hearing aid she 's done a course and a
16 With that thought in mind we have produced a chart which reveals the extent to which business involving the recording of Irish bands and artists has gone abroad in recent years .
17 Prior to erm Uruguay round negotiations , agriculture was always excluded from the negotiations right , whereas manufactured goods have been in there from the start , and as a result we 've seen a reduction in tariffs right , on manufactured goods that 's not to say that erm , protectionism on manufactured goods has fallen , it has in certain cases but not in all cases .
18 In this and the previous chapter we have discussed a number of groups of computer instructions , oriented to the principal data-types and operations for which the computer is designed .
19 It was a tough job for the judges , but after tasting thousands of cups of tea they 've announced a winner .
20 ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) .
21 But when the church breaks through this isolation it has created a potential for growth .
22 Yeah , Mike , Mike and , he 's erm I do n't think he 's , I think he will be able to in future he 's got a meeting arranged tonight and he 'll be here next time .
23 There it is , God in his mercy and his love , in his graciousness he has provided a gift , a free package gift for you and for me forgiveness , salvation but there is our responsibility of receiving it or taking hold of it , of experiencing it .
24 In his fourteen years as a fancier he has converted a hobby into something of a triumphant campaign .
25 As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer .
26 Jane Hall had booked into the Riverside Hotel , she walked over to the reception desk and rang the bell , hello I 'm Jane Hall I 've booked a weekend stay here , ah yes Miss Hall if you would just like to sign here , here 's your key , your room is six floors up , third on the right , have a nice stay .
27 If you do your environmental recycling I 've got a thing that I took out of a magazine that 's got all the addresses of erm of of the various thing for recycling paper
28 long , very nice , very posh , erm I do n't know what me dad 's is like , er me mum was laughing er yesterday erm with er doing all this work she 'd done a load of washing and pegged it all out and when she 'd got in from work dad had ironed it all
29 As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands .
30 Shannon had never been able to believe that ; as a child she 'd seen a photograph of her father , and even then she 'd been stunned to silence by his incredible good looks .
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