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 . ’
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