Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If the bones are my family 's I 'd like to see them have a decent Christian burial in a Russian Orthodox church . |
2 | D' ya have a good good da |
3 | ‘ D' you have a guilty conscience , maybe ? ’ |
4 | D' you have a nice time ? |
5 | ‘ He went on to try Trevor Cherry then gave a cap to John Gidman before he somehow remembered me and let me have a second chance . |
6 | Oh that 's interesting , let me have a closer |
7 | Your favourite Melton Mowbray pork pie , Master Harry , and Farmer Bates let me have a nice piece of Stilton special . |
8 | Let me have a close look at it says Dick , putting on his glasses . |
9 | Now , let me have a good look at you . ’ |
10 | Just let me have a quick look |
11 | Because I just in my normal sort of intelligent way asked the librarian to come up with lots of cuttings on environmental health and let me have a quick little read , this was probably about twenty to three or something you know I probably needed about three weeks to do it . |
12 | Let me have a little please ? |
13 | Let me have a little bit . |
14 | I used to say , well let me have a fourpenny wrapper and then I , I , and fourpence was a lot of money then . |
15 | They want to take another shot and Bogart says , ‘ Let me have a clean shirt , please . ’ |
16 | Although you may not want to go on a course , or can not afford to , it is a good idea to ask a friend or relative you feel comfortable with to play the part of the interviewer and let you have a dummy run . |
17 | It would n't have occurred to you to leave Adam in peace and let him have a well-deserved weekend off , would it ? |
18 | He said : ‘ Clay County wrenched the muscles in his quarters when dropping his hind legs in the water jump at Nottingham , so we decided to give the Cheltenham Festival a miss and let him have a long break . |
19 | Let it have a good bubble ! |
20 | Let us have a general election . |
21 | ‘ Come , let us have a little warming drink and then we will think . ’ |
22 | Let us have a full independent review of the extent of youth unemployment in Scotland , and end the Government 's complacency . |
23 | next Monday I want to see you have a happy Christmas . |
24 | ‘ I do n't see you have a great deal of choice , ’ he drawled , ‘ unless of course you wish to walk home — in which case you may as well forget our agreement . |
25 | One of the authors , Phil Hanson , who is IBM 's consultancy team leader , commented : ‘ While few of our manufacturing companies have proved to be world class , it is good to see we have a significant number of strong contenders . |
26 | Okay Noel thank you for your er your time and being a good sport this afternoon and I hear you have a little one you had better go back and sort things out . |
27 | We went along to a ballooning club and pestered people to let us have a free flight . |
28 | She said she would be letting you have a 5-page proposal plus sample activities by July , as agreed with you . |
29 | Shildon said : ‘ If MacQuillan had lived , Eliot could have used the information to persuade people to change their minds about letting him have a free hand with the Post . |
30 | I 'd like to see him have a few failures and see how he handles that . ’ |