Example sentences of "[verb] have [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |
| 2 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 3 | Jamie was in the middle of a story about a disagreement he 'd had with a master at his school over the A-level English syllabus when the phone rang . |
| 4 | His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress . |
| 5 | It was pink , one he 'd had from a baby . |
| 6 | One of the top skills a driver 's got have on a road if he 's gon na maintain safety . |
| 7 | Where once you would have had as a matter of necessity a plot with at its heart some intricate deception , often unlikely , now your plot will arise from the characters you want to write about . |
| 8 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 9 | ‘ You know who we should have had as a father , Annie . |
| 10 | This chapter has tried to suggest that the poor image project work seems to have as a teaching method is not a necessary one , and that there are strategies which teachers and schools can employ to ensure that it becomes purposeful and systematic . |
| 11 | The connoisseur also hopes to have in a drawing an authentic work by an artist 's own hand , which in the case of an oil painting may not be so assured . |
| 12 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 13 | Might need to think about what are some of the things , that I would want to have as a conclusion . |
| 14 | If there 's any possibility of anything to be gained from this operation — and in the absence of the kind of labour you 'd prefer to have on a job like this — I thought an extra pair of hands might be welcome . ’ |
| 15 | No , but I 'll come onto some effects that it did have in a moment . |
| 16 | The sound at the end of my er it would seem to have like a glide |
| 17 | But it is still there : the soaring vague walls and giant secretive curtain washed with colours you 've only dreamt about , the colour of all the things you were never allowed to have as a child , suddenly real and there before you . |
| 18 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 19 | Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio . |
| 20 | He told Took about a consultation he had had with a doctor , who told him : ‘ What you ought to do is to get yourself a retired petty officer to look after you . ’ |
| 21 | It was a habit he had had as a child . |
| 22 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 23 | He was wearing winceyette pyjamas like those he had had as a child . |
| 24 | that we 've had for a while . |
| 25 | Er , it 's a wee problem I 've had for a say about a year now . |
| 26 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 27 | So vivid was her imagination that she became adept at having conversations with him in which he was always making her laugh , always being to her the sort of person she longed to have as a life companion . |
| 28 | Now having said all this you know let's not identify with these too much like the that 's me you know okay , it gives you an incl an idea of your in of your stance where what sort of attitude philosophy and behaviours you prefer to have within a group , okay and if you match those back to what we saw in the group erm then it 's not surprising that the group got on so well together and you know we did n't have too much conflict with the amount of team workers involved because nobody in there wanted to upset anybody else in the team . |
| 29 | We actively encourage them to take on tasks out with the role of resident to give them some leaning to their life , to give them some creativeness to actively tap some of the skills they have had as a housewife or when they were out in the community . |
| 30 | His father Allan told the High Court : ‘ Whatever differences we have had as a family we are all of a mind that we would like what is best for Tony . |