Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Kieman , Reid and Jones ( 1982 ) , in a survey of special schools using some form of signing , claim 34 per cent of schools responding have a PGSS programme and 33 per cent of children had some PGSS in their education .
2 Breach of this provision would normally lead to expulsion , if only to pre-empt the possibility of a creditor seeking to have a receiver appointed .
3 How would you feel if I told you there was a girl going to have a child of mine — some other girl , some stranger ?
4 Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her
5 We 'd be in the pub planning to have a couple more pints and he 'd always want to go back and rehearse again , ’ says Rigby .
6 She said : ‘ After three years training to have a race taken away through no fault of my own was devastating .
7 Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier .
8 I must choose my words with care as well that my clients and I think that there was very much an effect of people wanting to have a relief road , but also wanting to have it as far away from themselves a as they could have it .
9 Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really .
10 In one of her letters the poet mentions having had a letter from an aunt whom she describes as ‘ sententious ’ [ ML , 2 , 311 ] .
11 His companion , who 'd attempted to interrupt before , successfully did so now : it was no use trying to have a conversation with him because his deaf-aid had fallen to pieces .
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