Example sentences of "[det] [pers pn] have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for some it 's been a blessing . |
| 2 | Last night , , this Sunday , all I had was a banana at lunchtime , had n't eaten all day or drunk , I had two glasses of water |
| 3 | All I had was a promise of a pair of boots from Jack Riordon , a quartermaster in the Green Howards Regiment . |
| 4 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 5 | All I have is a list of the names of over 100 donors . |
| 6 | All she had was a yearning for everything that was out there beyond her knowledge . |
| 7 | Some of the others would have to be rewired ; some would never be rewired again , but all she had was a headache . |
| 8 | She do n't buy nuffink , she , all she has is a hamburger and drink . |
| 9 | When he first started , you see , all you had was a fly safe . |
| 10 | When money 's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran , When all you have is a heap of debt — A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN . |
| 11 | All we have is a process of trial and error which , essentially , consists in seeing how well a particular indicator correlates with other indicators of the same concept and with other indicators of concepts presumed to be related in some causal connection . |
| 12 | Dr David Clark , Labour 's agriculture spokesman , who warned that potentially unsafe models remain on sale , said : ‘ All we have is a sham . ’ |
| 13 | All we have is a difference in the referential relations between linguistic expressions and the world outside language . |
| 14 | And we ourselves became different people from those we had been a minute ago , when we were teasing Filimon the goat or getting into a fight with Pechonkin 's street gang . |