Example sentences of "[pron] have [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’ |
| 2 | Oh I had about a shilling pocket money I think , although they used , they 'd fine you , they 'd stop money off you if you were late if you were a quarter of an hour late you could n't go in and erm until , and then you 'd got to explain to your mums , well that you were some money short you see , why is this , and we had to say well we were a bit late getting in when you started out soon enough you see . |
| 3 | I had about a mile to go , and it was the longest mile I have ever covered in my life . |
| 4 | I had about a fortnight there . |
| 5 | I thought I had for a moment . ’ |
| 6 | I had to a man with the stick earlier . |
| 7 | I am not mad , most noble Festus , but in sober sadness I have suffered this day more bodily pain than I had before a conception of . |
| 8 | This account I had from a person of honour . |
| 9 | And and one that I you know , I 've in a way but er I thought well it 's er |
| 10 | I have about a pound and a half in a gigantic envelope … |
| 11 | In addition , I have as a consultant — and on behalf of the National Children 's Bureau — been working with a team from the University of London Institute of Education over the past two years or so , to distil the lessons from this research for local and health authorities . |
| 12 | GEORGE PHILLIPS : Yes , I have as a matter of fact . |
| 13 | I have as a matter of course made a point of attending to those particulars which hereto for have been overlooked not only by collecting the birds in their various changes of plumage but by preserving all the principal forms for dissection as well as preparing skeletons of the same … |
| 14 | I have for a number of years |
| 15 | If the high expectations I have of a partner are based on past experience rather than romantic ideology , so are the expectations I have of myself . |
| 16 | At the present time I have in a total of fourteen patrol constables and two community constables and , as you are aware , I have two community constables here in , and . |
| 17 | In fact , there were four distinct varieties , which he regarded as separate races , of subspecies , which had over a period of time become cut off from each other and ceased to interbreed . |
| 18 | The return to normality after the Angelus hush made him feel that the all-seeing spirit which had for a while hovered doubtfully over his actions had now moved on . |
| 19 | The subject had seemed to be taboo ; and he himself had in a way pressed her down into his mind because thoughts of her conjured up a feeling tinged with regret and shame , centred round a scene in the bedroom and the rage of his mother . |
| 20 | In each of their second and third years , students of the single-subject English course takes a series of four core units which have as a focus the relationship between literature and its background . |
| 21 | spends all she has on a summer decades ago . |
| 22 | Throughout her school career Anna has been involved in a plethora of sporting clubs participating as fully in organisation terms as she has as a sportswoman . |
| 23 | It is apparently most excusable to rape your wife if she has for a period refused sexual intercourse ‘ unjustifiably ’ or if she has refused sexual intercourse unless her housekeeping money were raised , or even , curiously , ‘ in order to win her back . ’ |
| 24 | Did you have like a buffet ? |
| 25 | Do you have like a band with a key on it ? |
| 26 | Ven made no move to detain her , not that she had for a second considered that he might . |
| 27 | She had tossed and turned — as she had for a fortnight — thinking of Amy , full of foreboding . |
| 28 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 29 | Two have since been found they were advertised for sale in Darlington but the third , which she had as a foal , is still missing . |
| 30 | Anita Harris , who followed Camel with Carry on Doctor in 1968 — playing a nurse who looked more sexy in her cap and apron than she had as a belly dancer in the earlier film — suffered from being the butt of Ken 's jokes in both pictures . |