Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 2 | It was a what they call the fighting game , or something to that effect and er the the I remember once I he seeing them having a cock fight . |
| 3 | Do you want me to have a go at doing that Simon ? because I have been difficult about it , if that helps you . |
| 4 | Shall I just throw these away then or do you want them to have a second look at or , yeah , I 'll bin them . |
| 5 | ‘ Now look here , ’ said Otley , ‘ you asked me to have a bite with you and that venison does smell good . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing — except that your mother asked me to have a look at her wedding outfit before I go . |
| 7 | I did n't think I had a chance of getting a job but Workington took the gamble with me and I want to repay them . |
| 8 | ‘ But I did n't really think I had a chance because I have n't acted before , ’ she said . |
| 9 | I do n't think I had a Christmas present all my blessed life . |
| 10 | Erm I , I do n't think I have a problem saying well actually I deal on er i if someone said erm if you said I play with Joe Snooks you 'd say Joe Snooks , that 's interesting Joe 's a , a very good client of mine |
| 11 | I mean I er I mean I had a lot of trouble |
| 12 | ‘ You mean I have a choice as to whether I stay on or not ? ’ |
| 13 | er I mean I have a bit of a problem with him sort of going in and identifying all these fourteen ten tenets if you like of er what er the peasants have actually done because I do n't think |
| 14 | ‘ You mean I have a brain , ’ Polly flashed him her sweetest smile . |
| 15 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 16 | I mean I have a couple of ideas . |
| 17 | I mean I have a lot of people come to the vicarage and the churchyard , particularly people who have got alcohol problems . |
| 18 | Lee thinks I have a problem , I can tell . |
| 19 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 21 | Ideally this will not be necessary if those who send them have a vision for and support the work financially . |
| 22 | We just do n't seem to be able to track them down or attract them in quite the same way , so there is a massive practical problem if you want them to have a voice in how things are done , there 's no doubt about that . |
| 23 | ‘ Want me to have a look round , sir ? ’ |
| 24 | Bring along questions to do with revision , bring along planned essays that you 've written if you want me to have a look at them . |
| 25 | ‘ It sounds as if you want me to have a contract drawn up for signature by the parties of the first part . ’ |
| 26 | It calls for the granting of property rights to poor farmers to encourage them to have a stake in the land 's long term health and invest in soil conservation . |
| 27 | Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity . |
| 28 | Towsie watched until the red began to die out and then , bidding me to have a care and stand back , at the word of command they teemed their buckets on the fire . |
| 29 | ‘ As the club have never expected me to have a coaching certificate , I 've never considered it worth the effort just to get a piece of paper . |
| 30 | if she has I wished I had a job like that when I were young by George , going abroad and |