Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 2 | ‘ Now look here , ’ said Otley , ‘ you asked me to have a bite with you and that venison does smell good . ’ |
| 3 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing — except that your mother asked me to have a look at her wedding outfit before I go . |
| 5 | Apparently the cleaner overheard them having a tremendous row . |
| 6 | ‘ There was really no need — I realised I had a sweet and cheeses , you must have been starving . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 9 | However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards . |
| 10 | Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity . |
| 11 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 12 | I mentioned I had a daughter , Julia . |
| 13 | I found I had a code . ’ |
| 14 | And I found I had a room all to myself . |
| 15 | It was in the pleasure area , as usual , that I found I had a problem . |
| 16 | When I resumed my studies I found I had a lot of catching up to do . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 18 | Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent . |
| 19 | Never having been aboard a ship before , she found she had a natural liking for the sea life : she suffered no seasickness at all , and as João had sent an excellent chef to cook her meals , she dined well and developed a taste for the green wine of Portugal . |
| 20 | Suddenly Rachel found she had a lump in her throat . |
| 21 | Says Payne : ‘ We found we had a tremendous amount in common , a real northern European outlook with people from the Pacific rim , Siberia or the Russian heartlands . |
| 22 | Smith Kline Beecham spokesman Alan Chandler said : ‘ Once we found we had a slightly higher incidence of mumps-meningitis we notified the authorities . |
| 23 | ‘ Allowing for the generation gap , we found we had a surprising amount in common . |
| 24 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 25 | They invited him to have a go . |
| 26 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 27 | However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges . |
| 28 | they mentioned he had an excellent game — and from the goals showed the scot goalkeeper could have done much better on two of the italian goals … specially the first one — a flat shot from far out and at an angle too . |
| 29 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 30 | Well they ordered soup of the day you see and they brought this , I tasted it had a real funny , a weird taste |