Example sentences of "[verb] have a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what the manifesto is , is trying to do is to er set an agenda for about how the lot of private homes can be improved , and er fixing rent is one thing which the government er traditionally has had a responsibility for and which needs , er must be linked in with conditions because what we have at the moment is a situation where you get , in Oxford , a er a family living in one room being charged er over two hundred pounds a week by an individual landlord , and that 's clearly unacceptable . |
| 2 | Steve Gilbert has had a beard for 20 years and says he ca n't imagine life without it . |
| 3 | STUART PEARCE , Nottingham Forest 's England left back and skipper , has had a demand for a new contract thrown out by Brian Clough . |
| 4 | Erm but if somebody has had a gap for whatever reason , it is often the only method of actually covering it if you want to do something that involves the teachers ' superannuation scheme . |
| 5 | He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver . |
| 6 | It was claimed that the population of these desert ascetics was equal to that of the Nile towns , but religious fervour can hardly be trusted to have a head for figures . |
| 7 | Now I 've achieved the length , I want to have a perm for my wedding in two month 's time , only to find that due to the Henna , my hair wo n't take a perm . |
| 8 | They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue . |
| 9 | Politicians are deemed to have a bias for stability and continuity . |
| 10 | They did not need to have a row for Barry to feel constantly undermined by Helen 's attitudes , spoken and unspoken . |
| 11 | ‘ But a body would need to have a car for that kind of caper . |
| 12 | That kind of hurt because we 'd had a relationship for nine years . |
| 13 | one and we 'd had a chat for a long , long time and I said to him afterwards , I was able to understand everything he said ! |
| 14 | Emily felt a flash of irritation , she had insisted that the shoemaker 's daughter take the boots away to be soled and heeled and at the same time she 'd had a fitting for some new slippers . |
| 15 | Yes , when I came to think of it , he 'd had a cough for some time . |
| 16 | Yet the thing which struck her most of all here in the drawing room was that Harriet seemed to have a passion for photographs . |
| 17 | Some people seemed to have a talent for saying the wrong thing , she thought to herself . |
| 18 | With a hundred rooms , it 's said to have a window for every day of the year . |
| 19 | Another who will always be remembered for his all round ability was " Punch " Burgess , who it was said had a trial for the county but could n't contain his impatience . |
| 20 | I 'm conscious of the time , and we may like to have a break for tea , but there are also three people who wish to contribute to the discussion . |
| 21 | Would you like to have a break for tea now ? |
| 22 | Steve Groves for ‘ We shot it yesterday when it was 3 feet higher' ’ Nick Reason for ‘ Dad , I know you 've got to have a head for heights to canoe over a waterfall like that but why 's that man got two heads ? ’ , |
| 23 | Well you ca n't leave a G P to spend the money like he likes , you 've got to have a committee for it . |
| 24 | Yeah , you 've got to have a reason for that . |
| 25 | Was going to have a facility for young people , if you remember , it was suggested that the restaurant was used for young people . |
| 26 | She happened to have a period for most of that week . |
| 27 | Some actors just seem to have a knack for making themselves unpopular . |
| 28 | The people of Weinfelden seem to have a flair for putting window boxes of scarlet and pink flowers in places where they blend with the half-timbered fronts . |
| 29 | Outside of their own milieu , Arabs seem to have a penchant for choosing the hustler as confidant , or the shyster as business companion . |
| 30 | Also , the UK Customs people seem to have a penchant for opening packages with disks in , and whilst I 've never heard of anything going missing from such a package , they never seem to have grasped the idea that magnets and x-rays do n't mix well with floppy disks . |