Example sentences of "[vb base] have [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Cockfield , who expect to have virtually the whole village behind them , add recent signings Nigel Sams and Stephen Barker to the squad , but there will be late fitness tests for midfielder Mark Roughley and Kevin Pierce . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Blake , somehow you seem to have entirely the wrong idea about me . ’ |
| 3 | Especially when all the lenders seem to have roughly the same mortgage interest rate on offer to borrowers most of the time ? |
| 4 | You seem to have quite a large sense of pessimism about how to deal with this problem , Frankie . |
| 5 | The early sea urchins tend to have rather a large number of plates in a much less regular mosaic than their later relatives . |
| 6 | Non-educational criteria almost invariably have priority in recruitment over educational ones and employers tend to have only the vaguest notions as to what particular qualifications entail or imply . |
| 7 | From the direct comparison of housework with factory work we move to an aspect of work which many studies agree has possibly the strongest influence on a worker 's satisfaction . |
| 8 | They 're beautiful if you 're walking across the Downs and admiring the trees or the open countryside , but erm there are times , and we 've had just a recent spell with easterly winds , and we find with an easterly wind along the south coast , because of the Downs , and because of the , the Dover Straits , these easterly winds tend to erm funnel , as we call it , and therefore they are stronger than they would normally be expected to be , so Brighton does have its disadvantages in , from that point of view , but from the sunshine and the general point of view erm it takes a lot to beat the area . |
| 9 | I 've had rather a surprising piece of news , that 's all . ’ |
| 10 | I 've had rather a hard day — well , I 'm sure you can imagine . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I understand you 've had only a boiled egg this morning , ’ she said meaningfully , then returning her attention to the maid , ordered , ‘ Make that tea for two , Margaret . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've had precisely the same argument in Kampur and in Bombay , in Delhi and in Madras . |
| 13 | You 've had about a hundred people come to you , are you looking for damages ? |
| 14 | but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer . |
| 15 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
| 16 | It 's quite interesting that where you think you 've you 've rung say , Freda or Amber in the evening and you 've had quite a lengthy conversation in , mentally you think that |
| 17 | I 've I 've had quite a few nicknames . |
| 18 | I 've had quite a few patients . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've had quite an early start and I 'm feeling pretty tired , ’ she admitted . |
| 20 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 21 | In attempting to weight the relative importance of these individual variables some observers , despite the countervailing evidence , would maintain that on a world-wide basis economic forces have had only a limited influence in shaping bargaining structures ( Beaumont et al . , |
| 22 | Most people discharged from hospital psychiatric care have had only a short period as in patients and do not need long-term help after leaving . |
| 23 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 24 | I have had only the highest regard for Amnesty and have never written to you like this before . |
| 25 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |
| 26 | We have had quite a few trainees , youth trainees in garden centres , and golf courses , which surprised me , but golf courses apparently could use quite a lot of people . |
| 27 | Alan Hansen , of Ipswich Port Authority , said : ‘ We have had quite a severe downturn in our business at the West Bank terminal . |