Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 2 | This book has given you quite a bit of practical advice — things to actually DO . |
| 3 | Altogether this little girl has cost us quite a lot of money . |
| 4 | It has taken me quite a while to be able to do that . |
| 5 | If we 'd seen it once a year that was often , |
| 6 | I said I 'd bought it off a bloke in The Roebuck . |
| 7 | That 'e 'd nicked them off a woman 's washing-line in Brixton . |
| 8 | But you see what he 'd done he 'd , he 'd had it out a freezer since four o'clock since he come in |
| 9 | She had a thick brown walking-stick in her right hand and she 'd hooked it around a handle on the door-frame . |
| 10 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 11 | I thought I 'd have to give you back a lot more money . |
| 12 | Well you 'll have to put him down a bit more carefully than that . |
| 13 | ‘ You must have brought him quite a way ? ’ |
| 14 | We should have driven her home an hour ago . |
| 15 | They 'd have to knock it down a hell of a bloody lot . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd have thought your Brian could have found you somewhere a bit more comfortable , ’ interposed Mrs Harper , seeing her opportunity of introducing Brian to his disadvantage , ‘ he must know a few folk , it 's not only money that counts . … ’ |
| 17 | Must have set you back a bit . ’ |
| 18 | It must have cost her over a quid . |
| 19 | It must have cost her quite a bit too , taking on a man who looks like I look , his fat shoulders and heavy head tensed over the spectacle of her lost or twisted sisters . |
| 20 | Must have cost you quite a lot to buy them each a drink . |
| 21 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 22 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 23 | She admitted then she might have liked him quite a lot . |
| 24 | He would have to bring him down a level . |
| 25 | There oh I 'll have to bring her over a bit . |
| 26 | I have always thought that the sweetening of the waters of Marah resulted from the removal of the iron by the coagulation and flocculation of iron/tannin complexes , the tannin being derived from that tree — though I think that he [ Moses ] would have had to have bashed it up a bit first . |
| 27 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
| 28 | They seem to have got it together a bit more . |
| 29 | I 'ave to milk her twice a day and ah knaw . " |
| 30 | But she had given him neither an address nor a telephone number ; and the complexities of finding either had posed rather too much of a problem on a transatlantic line . |