Example sentences of "be [adv] [pers pn] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum . |
| 2 | Are n't I to have any pleasure in life at all ? ’ |
| 3 | Crikey , cos the last time you were down you had that stinker did n't you ? |
| 4 | Coming almost certainly from a middle-class or working-class home , once his seminary days were over he had little opportunity for further education . |
| 5 | When the French were here they had much freedom in the camp because they were sensible and did not try to escape . |
| 6 | erm you end up with four different er types of er reproductive strategies which are of monogamy , polygyny , polygamy and polyandry and the first one monogamy is when you have one male and female and er this minimizes the differences in reproductive success and the way it does that is because erm it , it minimizes the difference between the sexes because monogamy takes the limitations of the male erm to reproduce only with the one female so the male to female ratio of reproductive success the same in monogamy , and er what happens to that is this little in er more equal towards their parental investment . |
| 7 | This reflects , effectively , the sale of another of our shares in Cedar Fayre The profit on sale of fixed assets comes right down , as you again er , I think all know , we 've had the benefit of our last of shares and we 're actually rather pleasantly surprised that we were able to er , sell some land at Lakeside to CostCo , which is why we have some profit of three million er , for the first half of ninety three . |
| 8 | This is where we had some sort of car this is just looking at hardness of water actually , but this is , you 've got the C O three |
| 9 | Er it is important I think , that we do n't er have too many regulations , that 's why I have some sympathy for what my honourable friend , the member for South Hamms , was saying , that we do n't er regulate to the point where firms just go out of business and give up , that it 's too expensive and it 's too burdensome . |
| 10 | have you told them big insurance company come and unstuck a little and what he had like Gail done , was like we had last year |
| 11 | his only dip in form since he s been at Leeds was when he had back trouble . |
| 12 | It was when I had that skiing accident in Switzerland . ’ |
| 13 | That was why she had two bank accounts and an occasional bruise on her face . |