Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 2 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 3 | When I reluctantly put him back in his shoe box , I had a desperate need to be close to ‘ Fred ’ the person . |
| 4 | The voice stopped and I had a similar feeling to the one I had just before I found Toby trussed up in his cupboard . |
| 5 | In wounded puzzlement I had a sudden flashback to the time immediately after Dunkirk , when Leslie had referred to the projected formation of a parachute corps , and to service in it as ‘ absolute certain death ’ in a ‘ suicide squad ’ . |
| 6 | I had a natural ability to entirely forget the theatre when at home , and vice versa , which was extremely useful . |
| 7 | For a while though , I had a psychological block to sailing in fresher winds because I thought my weight and strength was not up to it . |
| 8 | I was n't really disappointed at all ; I had a devil-may-care attitude to my athletics . |
| 9 | But they loved me so passionately that I had a secure base to my life . ’ |
| 10 | Despite our wariness of exclusivity , if I had a satisfactory answer to my first question ( somewhere along the lines of : we pay nothing and lose none of the candidate fee ! ) |
| 11 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 12 | There has been a Europeanisation of academic life over the past 20 years since I had the good luck to be appointed to Edinburgh 's Regius Chair of Public Law . |
| 13 | An ex-agent of mine told me I had the wrong attitude to charity shows ; I did too many . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 15 | I 've a perfect right to my feelings . |
| 16 | I have no great attachment to solicitors earning large sums of money dealing with immigration cases . |
| 17 | I have no real right to be here . |
| 18 | ‘ I have no particular objection to the name John but I never use it and it is not how I like to be known . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ They think I just sit back if I have a good start to the season . |
| 20 | On the other hand , my own feeling would be very much that schools have to prepare children for taking their life in the community and the community is mixed sex , it 's not single sex , so I have a slight aversion to single sex institutions . |
| 21 | As a prospective candidate for the Scottish National Party , and , indeed , Home Affairs member of the SNP 's Scottish Cabinet , I have a strong commitment to the project of Scottish independence in Europe . |
| 22 | ‘ The truth is , ’ he admitted to Alan Griffiths , ‘ I have a constant temptation to over asperity … even when there is no subjective anger to prompt me : it comes , I think , from the pleasure of using the English language forcibly — i.e. it is not a species of Ira but of Superbia . |
| 23 | I have a sensible solution to this argument . |
| 24 | Dick , thank you for those kind words , er , specially about er my book , and I think I am considering appointing you as my agent er , you also said er that I 'd dr drawn the short straw indeed you er whispered to me that I was the sacrificial lamb this morning well we 'll see about that but I do know that I have the great honour to be invited to speak to congress this morning on behalf of the G M B parliamentary group . |
| 25 | I do not know whether I have the best answer to that , but I remind them that the Bill relates only to those utilities that have been privatised and to which a policy of independent regulators applies . |
| 26 | Did you have a good flight to London ? |
| 27 | She was , as Ward had said , rusty as hell , but behind the rust she had a solid look to her . |
| 28 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 29 | And it she had a right talk to him and he said , Well that 's it . |
| 30 | It was as if she had a hot line to the Devil . |