Example sentences of "[pron] have the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second remarkable event was Henry 's marriage in May 1152 to another great heiress — not for nothing has the twelfth century been called the " Century of Heiresses " . |
| 2 | " May I have the first dance , Janet ? " |
| 3 | No word spoken before he said : " May I have the first dance ? " |
| 4 | Can I have the first part ? |
| 5 | Could I have the first question please ? |
| 6 | Why ca n't I have the next stage ? |
| 7 | Can I have the last question ? |
| 8 | I had the second show at the Hanover in 1964 and then I was persuaded by Robert Fraser to make a move from the Hanover to his gallery . |
| 9 | And that was a fortnight ago when I had the first scan . |
| 10 | I think that 's when I had the first nightmare … |
| 11 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 12 | Now I had the first set of these dividers over in this country . |
| 13 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 14 | Another bonus arrived within a week , when I had the first glimpse from the sea of the opposite coastline of Koraloona , with its empty sandy beaches and the great dormant volcano of High Island rearing up behind it , while in the distance I could even make out Hodges , the copra island . |
| 15 | You know , if the wa I 'll have that but but I had the last bit before that . |
| 16 | Cos originally I had the last session but we cancelled . |
| 17 | ‘ I remember the hangover I had the last time I went on the tiles with you , and tomorrow I have to ply squash at nine . |
| 18 | Well on a Monday okay I have an hour in the morning , I have the first hour in the morning and er oh God . |
| 19 | On Ferry Road , within sight of Fettes School 's preposterous spire and only minutes from the police HQ , I have the first cigarette of the day , not because I really want it , just to feel bad . |
| 20 | A finite ladder of identical symmetric sections , which has the last section loaded with the characteristic impedance in order that all sections are so loaded , is said to be correctly terminated . |
| 21 | Popular culture gives us plenty of female verbal incontinence ( cf the Andy Capp joke : ‘ when two wives get together , who has the last word ? ’ ) and illogical women who ca n't keep to the point ( as a character in the soap opera Coronation Street comments , ‘ you might as well try to knit fog as follow what 's in a woman 's mind ’ ) . |
| 22 | have you had the last cherry bakewell ? , he has the last cherry bakewell |
| 23 | hers were the number the second one out , so she had the second choice |
| 24 | if she had the first sign of anything . |
| 25 | On training matters , Annie deferred to her husband ; on everything else , she had the last word . |
| 26 | Might be more than that Martine and Mrs she had the next caravan to , to me |
| 27 | Carolyn Pride , now Carolyn Bartholomew , who had the next bed in Diana 's dormitory and later shared her London flat , remembers her as a ‘ strong character , buoyant and noisy . ’ |
| 28 | For those ‘ Old Fighters ’ who had been enthusiastic Hitler supporters even before the demise of the Weimar Republic , for the direct beneficiaries of Nazism — the careerists , power-seekers , and apparatchiks who had the Third Reich to thank for their offices and careers in Party and State , and for the ideologically committed who had ‘ burnt their boats ’ with the Nazi regime , the belief in the Führer 's powers to bring about a miracle and achieve final victory in the face of all the odds was the blind faith rooted in self-interest and fear of the future . |
| 29 | Well , who was it who had the last laugh now ? |
| 30 | Then suddenly , and sweetly , she began to realise that , since Travis was no more to her than a good friend , and she was still going to have her job at the end of all this , when it finally did end , it was going to be she who had the last laugh — and not N. Massingham Esquire . |