Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 2 | If I live , I may have a crooked back like my father , but I 'll probably die . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I may have a wrong number , ’ it said . |
| 4 | I must have a good game against him . ’ |
| 5 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
| 6 | But then I must have a cold shower . |
| 7 | 121 , as to which Parke B. , in Cooper v. Parker ( 1855 ) 15 C.B. 828 , said , ‘ Whenever the question may arise as to whether Down v. Hatcher is good law , I should have a great deal to say against it , ’ yet there certainly are cases in which great judges have treated the dictum in Pinnel 's Case as good law . |
| 8 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , you think I should have a kept woman like Ma — not very modern , that . |
| 10 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ You and I should have a little chat . ’ |
| 12 | But I certainly did n't think , as I went into the trees , that I should have the apparent answer within another hundred yards . |
| 13 | And I might have a little bit . |
| 14 | Er , er sorry , I think I might have the wrong number . |
| 15 | Peter Cole , chairman of Bramshill Parish Council , in whose bailiwick the town would have fallen , said : ‘ I might have an extra beer today , but I am saving the champagne for another 21 days . |
| 16 | Perhaps he thought I might have an interesting story to tell . |
| 17 | If things do n't get better soon , I 'll have a nervous breakdown or divorce my husband . |
| 18 | I 'll have a tiny bit . |
| 19 | I 'll have a tiny bit |
| 20 | No , I 'll have a small orange juice please . |
| 21 | I 'll have a small cafe with you . |
| 22 | I 'll have a temporary job |
| 23 | I 'll have a temporary job |
| 24 | What if you , if you lent us some dosh I suppose I could be with Louise tonight , right , I could go home with a big bunch of flowers cos I 'll have a guilty expression on my face . |
| 25 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 26 | Well I 'll have a new book now when I go , right , and you can have my old one . |
| 27 | So I thought I 'll have a new carpet in my hall . |
| 28 | I 'll have a good look , anyway ! ’ laughed Gay . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll have a good look . ’ |
| 30 | But I 'll have a good June . |