Example sentences of "[prep] have the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Shortly after having the second baby , I chose to be sterilised .
2 But Paul came home happy , his blue eyes brilliant as they had been when they first met ; full of his new employment , the prospect of having the second book read , the kindness of the Professor in going to visit Mr Lamprey himself .
3 So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first .
4 Defender also had the distinction of having the first woman finisher , Mandy Gallow .
5 All the recordings bear the stamp of Walter Legge 's mastery as producer and also indicate the conductor 's welcome preference for having the second violins on his right , giving a better spread to the string sound .
6 If she wants a three to four you got ta have the next size up .
7 An hour later , standing in the darkness , so far from having the fourth murder in a series , they had a new killing : one which was superficially like the others , but whose only real resemblance lay in the infliction of one particular wound , and the manner and location in which the body was laid out after death .
8 For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table .
9 But as she made her way back to the table , Polly 's fierce satisfaction at having the last word in what had been a nerve-shattering encounter quickly faded .
10 The 1992 Richmond Meet is being marked as a historic occasion by having the first female Meet president .
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