Example sentences of "[pers pn] to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want you to have a great time tonight , ’ he said several times , ‘ but do n't go without taking away 12 business cards . ’ |
| 2 | Does it suit you to have a specific initial commitment , culminating in a natural break when you can leave and pursue other interests ? |
| 3 | I can not at present be more specific about when I shall be able to deliver the items to you , but if it is important for you to have a specific time , could I ask you , please , to get in touch in a day or so . |
| 4 | It allows you to have a firmer feel for the road at higher speeds without giving up power assistance when , regrettably , it comes time to park the car . |
| 5 | It keeps you fit and helps you to have a healthy baby . |
| 6 | It keeps you fit and helps you to have a healthy baby . |
| 7 | Yeah , but the thing is , what it 's , what it 's doing is that , they want you to have a normal conversation on . |
| 8 | Though , you know , there 's a sense in which we can use , we we 're a , we gave it in you to have a certain amount of license , and we can use illustrations just as we would use modern illustrations to describe spiritual truths and to use them to illustrate the gospel . |
| 9 | After all , an actor 's life is spent working with words , and it will be valuable for you to have a reasonable background in the English literary and dramatic traditions . |
| 10 | While wishing you to have a nice day wherever you may be , the folks at Dixons/Silo prefer that if you 're in the UK , you do your shopping at Dixons , where prices are 60 to 80 per cent higher . |
| 11 | She said : Our Blessed Lady asked me to ask you to have a small chapel built here in her honour . |
| 12 | It may be essential for you to have a sympathetic ear if you run into difficulties . |
| 13 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 14 | Not only will it make you and your baby happier it will also help you to have an easier and enjoyable birth . |
| 15 | If the yeast foods caused you to have an abdominal reaction , then you may find the weight loss came to a standstill this week . |
| 16 | The second reason was that , even were she to have a successful pregnancy and birth , she was terrified that she might one day be carrying her child in her arms when she fainted and might then drop or hurt the child in some way . |
| 17 | Really it would be nice of we to have A level plays so A level student could come and see . |
| 18 | She started hiding food away instead of eating it so as not to put on any weight , but hunger forced her to have a good meal at least once a week . |
| 19 | I would n't want her to have a rough time . ’ |
| 20 | While visiting the local volcano , Serena is profoundly upset by the sight of hardened lava fields around a bubbling centre , and this causes her to have a nervous breakdown . |
| 21 | A WOMAN whose silicone breast implant ruptured and caused her to have a partial mastectomy was awarded £17 million by an American jury yesterday . |
| 22 | The few examples of her work that exist show her to have a strong sense of composition and a bold yet sensitive line . |
| 23 | Although they knew they would never forget Jennie , the Girls wanted her to have a permanent memorial so they had a collection and made a most practical and fitting choice : a marble floor for the church of St Stephen on the Cliffs , Blackpool . |
| 24 | Alice was to work in computers he , Andrew , would arrange for her to have a quick course of training , which would be a sufficient basis on which an intelligent woman like her could build . |
| 25 | She had an intimation that it had been important to her to have an impersonal initiation , in her own control , not over-whelming . |
| 26 | Peter had discovered that his five villages would not like him to have a working wife . |
| 27 | Satan comes to Jesus on the cross in the guise of a guardian angel , convinces him he 's not the Messiah and invites him to have a normal life on earth . |
| 28 | It was large enough for him to have a grand study with five windows ; yet small enough for him to discourage visitors without obvious discourtesy . |
| 29 | They ca n't really expect him to have a physical game this afternoon can they with David Speedy ? |
| 30 | The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal . |