Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] have [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Another resident , who asked not to be named , said : ‘ Everyone has had trouble with the gangs at one time or another . |
2 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
3 | In the " Lady Chatterley " case , Mr Justice Byrne directed that " as far as literary merit or other matters which can be considered under s4 are concerned , I think one has to have regard to what the author was trying to do , what his message may have been , and what his general scope was " . |
4 | But all I can say is we people who see us I mean it 's not as if everybody has to have favours with their wedding , it 's still a fairly new thing . |
5 | The family is a central institution of modern British society , at least in the sense that almost everybody has had experience of living in a family at some time in their lives . |
6 | The fact that everybody has had experience of family life also means that families appear as natural and inevitable ways of organizing human social life . |
7 | Everybody seems to have flu at the moment |
8 | Do you know everybody 's had flu and God knows what and I ca n't catch it . |
9 | Everybody 's had SIMS training now ! |