Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [pers pn] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should think she has good reason to think like that , ’ she told him . |
| 2 | Not only was he enjoying trying to blame the fire on Lisa , when surely he must know she had enough problems already , but that reference to ‘ poor , downtrodden Nigel ’ was almost shocking in its coldness . |
| 3 | I should say I have one problem , and that is I have the ballet music from William Tell there , but that seems to have walked . |
| 4 | Our explanation for this was that unions might feel they had less control over the conditions of indirectly employed temporary workers than over the conditions of those who are directly employed . |
| 5 | ‘ It 'll show they have some friends , ’ Claire says . |
| 6 | So you 'll let me have that information ? |
| 7 | Well there is , a Co-op bank but I do n't think they 'll let me have some money out of it . |
| 8 | Right I 'll let you have that part cos they write they wo n't want these that is that is original receipt so I 'll give her |
| 9 | Yeah we 'll let you have ten pounds ' worth . |
| 10 | ‘ And tomorrow perhaps you 'll let me have a note of your expenses to date and I 'll let you have some money . |
| 11 | When you change your old beliefs , you might find you have sudden impulses which are ‘ out of character ’ . |
| 12 | If you watch the Peacocks , you 'll find they have spare parts for every eventuality ! |
| 13 | The gardener wo n't like it , but I 'll say it has some kind of disease — ’ |
| 14 | If the writer also uses adverbial expressions initially in the first sentence of this new part of his text , then we might say we have overwhelming evidence that the writer is marking a ‘ topic-shift ’ in his discourse . |
| 15 | You 'd think they had another road block down here . |
| 16 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 17 | You 'd expect them to have opposite signs . |
| 18 | you could see he had two pairs of socks on , the Dayglo green ones with holes in and underneath some grey woolly ones , the kind that earnest ramblers wear . |
| 19 | I felt a burning , splitting sensation , and Dick told me to look as the head had crowned , and I could see she had dark hair . |
| 20 | After a pause for thought she told Dad that he must go and ask the Captain if he could let them have some cups and saucers and whatever else was available , even if they could not have the hall . |
| 21 | I 'd be grateful if you could let me have this cheque as soon as possible . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd say we have three minutes left to do the same ! ’ |
| 23 | You would think he had better things to do with his time . |
| 24 | Anyway , the bank WERE NT exerting any pressure … despite some things said on TV over the weekend … hence Silvers comments just after the announcement of the sale , that the money would ensure we have some flexibilty should we need to enter the transfer market again . |
| 25 | Ethics do have a place in the boardroom , and our employees , er employees in I B M , would expect them to have that place . |
| 26 | Every time we arranged to come to London he would decide he had other things to do . |
| 27 | I should be grateful if you would let me have any amendments or omissions a.s.a.p . |
| 28 | In the meantime I asked my vet whether he would let me have some sedatives to put into her food . |
| 29 | What she told me about vegetable growing meant very little to me , so I can barely recall now what was said , except that she would let me have some strawberries on Monday for my brother 's supper , but I remember how easily the talk went , my unexpected visit serenely taken for granted , with no query as to why I had come . |
| 30 | This would allow them to have some influence in the company ( unlike in Britain , where there has been no sizeable reservations of shares on a collective basis in the shape of employee trusts ) as shareholders as well as having worker-directors . |