Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've recently joined the NCT , or you have a new baby then let me know and I 'll put you in contact with another member who lives nearby . |
| 2 | So you are unlikely to be given an exhibition unless your work is already known by the gallery or you have an established reputation and proven success . |
| 3 | Before the provision contained in rule 3(7) was enacted , the law governing standing to apply for prerogative orders was , in simplified terms , as follows : a person could apply for certiorari or prohibition provided he or she had a genuine grievance or , in other words , provided the applicant was a person aggrieved by the challenged decision . |
| 4 | His Offensive Weapons ( Scotland ) Bill would put the onus on the person carrying a knife to prove he or she had a valid reason for doing so . |
| 5 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 6 | Your plugger should contact all the DJs with whom he or she has a good relationship , trying to persuade them to play your record . |
| 7 | The second must be that he or she has a long life . |
| 8 | If the researcher is interested in discussions of government finance in the Treasury , he or she has a potential problem of informational over-kill . |
| 9 | Under the established system for electing members to the House of Commons , each elector has only one vote in a general election ; each constituency returns only one Member of Parliament ; and Members of the House of Commons are elected on a first-past-the-post ( winner takes all ) system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the seat whether or not he or she has an overall majority of all the votes cast in the constituency . |
| 10 | She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement . |
| 11 | Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion . |
| 12 | In a spoken message we notice the quality of the voice as well : maybe the speaker 's voice was shaking , or they had a particular accent , or hesitated , or slurred their words . |
| 13 | Or they have a little book where they can look it up . |
| 14 | Many people visit their doctors to have their ears syringed — often because their hearing is impaired or they have a bad earache . |
| 15 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 16 | For the first time , Shirnette and me had a real fight , because of what I hated most . |
| 17 | Get 'em off your chest ; you 'll feel better for it and I 've a broad back . " |
| 18 | It does piss you off admittedly when scum are on so much , and I 've a sneaking feeling that Leeds have still not been forgiven in some parts of the press for being close enough to sneak the title when scum fucked up ( due to Fuckerson 's crap team selection ) . |
| 19 | Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set . |
| 20 | John Gould and I had a tremendous rapport and the run was a happy one with constant ‘ House Full ’ signs up . |
| 21 | ‘ Obviously , I have a tremendous amount of memories from here and I had a tremendous amount of success here , too . |
| 22 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 23 | My sister and I had a hazy idea that he sold rabbit skins from a sort of tray suspended from his neck — but as he was always beautifully neat and clean I do n't know where we got this idea from . |
| 24 | Eventually , all the pressure built up and I had a nervous breakdown . |
| 25 | But somebody had been there much later , there was no doubt about that , and I had a sore spot on my head to prove it . |
| 26 | So my w Jessie and I had a wee break . |
| 27 | And I had a nice letter from the commanding officer the Royal Artillery . |
| 28 | Bill and I had a great deal in common . |
| 29 | I sold the jewels I was wearing and de Michelet and I had a splendid time until the money was gone . |
| 30 | thing and I had a blazing row with them on the telephone |