Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard to explain the conflict in our acquaintance , but perhaps I had an instinctive feeling that she , in fact , wanted me to go to bed with her , and she knew I would n't — because if I did make love to her , it would be a victory for her and a defeat for me . |
| 2 | And so I have an English voice because I come from that background . ’ |
| 3 | Oh no perhaps she had an extra , oh no it 's already . |
| 4 | So we had an extra hour for dinner . |
| 5 | So we have an established base . |
| 6 | So we have an extra strap on the harness , running vertically upwards , with a suspension ring at the end . |
| 7 | So we have an operatic phenomenon that can be explained in good , old-fashioned aesthetic terms . |
| 8 | Before we came over here when we lived in we had an enormous front lawn |
| 9 | A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct . |
| 10 | So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that |
| 11 | Thus he had an inherent antipathy to the idea that law , even Church law , canon law , could achieve anything that was good for the Church . |
| 12 | Thus it has an unusual and invaluable safety factor among its properties . |
| 13 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 14 | Formerly I had an English couple who used to come every day , that lasted seven or eight years then they got too old . |
| 15 | A couple of weeks later we had an indoor match in Budapest against Hungary and this time I won , 21.3 to Ade 's 21.6 , with some top Hungarians trailing behind . |
| 16 | Hence we have an up-ended Land Rover , a display of Royal Doulton china , and two pseudo-Classical showcases full of Marks & Spencer products occupying the ground floor , along with a rather tacky souvenir shop . |
| 17 | Now I had an added impetus , although Brian 's response to my prediction was , as always , ‘ McCarthy , will you stop putting my head away ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ At least now we have an agreed ransom . |
| 19 | And now they have an added attraction a few weeks ago they danced to the music of the 14-piece Cleveland Orchestra in a first for the group . |
| 20 | Today we have an undistinguished and incoherent policy . |
| 21 | Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory . |
| 22 | Here we have an astonishing faux-pas . |
| 23 | Here we have an uninterrupted view of the prospect , and what a glorious prospect it is , stretching far away for many miles on every hand . |
| 24 | Here we have an undoubted theoretical cause , and also the undoubted fact that this cause has been in operation on a massive scale . |
| 25 | But here we have an unexpected aid : one of the forged Canterbury documents — a letter from Pope John XII to Archbishop Dunstan sending him his pallium — had been copied and had left Canterbury before the illicit addition was made . |
| 26 | It was more a sort of colonial system with the great difference that , whereas in typical colonial systems there is a highly developed mother-country and underdeveloped colonies , here we have an underdeveloped colonial power and more developed colonies . |
| 27 | He opened a shop there in 1961 and gradually took over other premises , including the castle , until today he has an annual turnover of more than a million second-hand books . |
| 28 | Well he had an old one on , he bought a new one on Friday . |
| 29 | I always use this kind of music as part of the test sequence ; here it had an extraordinary naturalness , a quite seamless integration from bass to soprano , which one immediately recognises as true . |
| 30 | Then she had an older one about five and a half so she had four girls . |