Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to have [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I asked to have one of the family present when I opened the safe but Gerald objects to it being opened at all without their solicitor being present .
2 I got to have some beef in that role .
3 I tend to have flat ones .
4 Erm but after you 're confirmed , you will have er you know the ability to say , yes Lord I want to have wisdom , I want to have right judgment .
5 ‘ In the meantime , ’ Blanche said , ‘ I want to have another chat with our prime suspect . ’
6 Well I want to have another one
7 I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school .
8 I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end .
9 ‘ I know , ’ I said , ‘ that he wants what I have , and also what I hope to have one day . ’
10 I hope to have more on Bernard by then . ’
11 I hope to have more details for you in the next Journal .
12 ‘ There is one key area in which I hope to have some success over the next year and that is in bringing the clubs and the union closer together ’ .
13 I hope to have some good news for you soon . ’
14 I shall definitely be at the airport to meet you and I hope to have some startling and important news to give you in person .
15 I happen to have five in a row here !
16 I happen to have half a dozen , and there is one , just one , that I am allowing you the privilege of riding , because I think you are capable of coping with it .
17 I seem to have little choice as far as you 're concerned . ’
18 I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing .
19 I seem to have some other side to my personality which I can bring to certain parts , ’ he says .
20 At this point I began to have serious doubts about this man 's hold on reality .
21 There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered .
22 The awful thing was that , as I said it , I began to have serious doubts about it .
23 I began to have strange dreams .
24 I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence .
25 I think I began to have more of an influence as I settled into the group . ’
26 In the next few weeks , I began to have some very interesting conversations with the King .
27 And so I began to have erotic daydreams .
28 I like to have young people about me . ’
29 I like to have young people about the house .
30 I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see .
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