Example sentences of "have the [adj] [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the deliberate naïveté here is not in the least false , but has the limpid directness of some of the Chinese poems that Pound had marvellously transfigured in Cathay ( 1915 ) . |
| 2 | We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later . |
| 3 | The militarists have had the upper hand for some time . |
| 4 | I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see . |
| 5 | I might still have the odd tin of some oval golden tablets , big as gooseberries , which we used to give them for worms . |
| 6 | Lastly it was possible to have the first-hand testimony of some of the compositors themselves and their relatives . |
| 7 | Recently we had the sorry spectacle of some of them voting against the progressive EC Social Chapter which is designed to improve the lot of the employee . |
| 8 | Maggie felt she had the upper hand to some extent and this had to be talked out . |