Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] to have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through our interpreter , Christine , he said , ‘ I used to have many more mementoes from my naval career , but the British ’ — he seemed to speak not of us but of some distant tribe — ‘ looted them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It sounds so silly when I think about it now , ’ says a disappointed daughter in Pitkeathley 's book , ‘ but I used to have this image of us sitting together in the afternoons . |
| 3 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 4 | I used to have some white friends at school but they fell away . |
| 5 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 6 | That 's what everyone says , oh I used to have those . |
| 7 | I used to have these dreams , you know , that it might be possible . |
| 8 | If Mrs Richards has been here so long , she ought to have some kind of permanent record , to help new staff like me . ’ |
| 9 | And she said and she said thank you she said , Miss Anderson she said she ought to have more sense than come in a thing like that she said to the officers . |
| 10 | She used to have all the water she liked after she got hot , cooled off , yeah . |
| 11 | She used to have this in , in front , in front of the old fire . |
| 12 | ‘ You used to have many admirers , ’ the mother changed . |
| 13 | Did you used to have all all the cleaning to do as well then ? |
| 14 | And you used to have that , that was your breakfast . |
| 15 | So what is it did you used to have more f er was it okay at first I mean you used to have quite a few friends when you first move in ? |
| 16 | Oh yes , it was a leather er erm a piece of leather with three tongs on it and a handle to it , and er you used to have this strap on your hand . |
| 17 | ‘ It was hard work but you used to have some enjoyment out of yourself . |
| 18 | Well you used to have some good effective carts there . |
| 19 | Oh , hang on David I think we ought to have that jumper off you . |
| 20 | The police er do n't refer a lot of things to us , I know it 's difficult but er I feel that we ought to have more occasions er where er we are made aware of things that happen and then we can help er in various ways by referrals to those agencies and of course , financially . |
| 21 | We had to put a bloke in hospital there ; and so the owd skipper say to me : ‘ Boy , ’ he says , ‘ we ought to have another hand . |
| 22 | That 's why I think we ought to have another quote for the roof actually . |
| 23 | We ought to have some traditional ones . |
| 24 | Perhaps we ought to have some lunch ? ’ |
| 25 | Well I think we 'll have to get some other quotes , because Peter is n't the the roofer , he gets someone else to do it , so I think we ought to have some other quotes . |
| 26 | I do n't know whether this is necessary but Caroline erm , but when we take on a new type of business which is n't covered by our current procedures erm , say electronic data collection or something , which up until then has been done on paper , that we ought to have some simple statement in a procedure about how we are going to er , ma , ensure that we 've got a new set of procedures to deal with that new type of , new system . |
| 27 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
| 28 | I do n't want to rush you but I 've booked at the bistro down the road for nine o'clock so we ought to have this drink and go . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ For the work we used to do up there we used to have all the beer we could drink . |
| 30 | In in the village and then we used to have that at dinnertime . |