Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about half past eleven I had a telephone call — I was in bed but I have an extension in my room for emergencies . |
| 2 | Not long after that I had a letter addressed to Miss Eliza , The house next to the Smithy , Rustington . |
| 3 | After that I had a fear of water , especially the sea , but I learned to live with it and even became a good swimmer . |
| 4 | Despite this I had a lot of fun , until my mother replaced him with another pony that Brian could manage , and I gave up hunting . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 're interested I have a job for you , ’ she said shortly . |
| 6 | Because I 'm getting a bit old I have a tendency to get out of breath . |
| 7 | This nobody had a name . |
| 8 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
| 9 | Sunday afternoon , remembering in between this you had a mile home again for Sunday dinner , and back again in the afternoon for Sunday School . |
| 10 | And there may be those of you reading this who have a friend or colleague suffering in that way right now . |
| 11 | Anyway erm so erm you sometimes also find with family situations , let's suppose in some situations you have some you have a daughter in the household who 's being abused by say the father or step-father , maybe if there 's a brother once he gets old enough to start becoming interested in sex , in some cases , although he 's round about the same age as his sister , can be um as it were inducted into the into the cycle of abuse erm can actually start participating when the dynamic 's already there . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid you have a murder on your hands , Inspector . " |
| 13 | And of course we used to have desk infect inspections , of course we used to take that down before a desk inspection you see , this we had a surprise inspection and lifted it up and saw this and read it out , read it , Right , he said , And we 'll go God 's going to help you do something else , come out . |
| 14 | And because of this we have a choice where to alter the theory when things go wrong at the observational level . |
| 15 | Again in this we have a speaker creating a " persona " by the use of code switching . |
| 16 | Like many of the roofs , this one had a dovecot . |
| 17 | The other children were clean and decently fed , but this one had a smell of the gutters about him and looked like he could do with some good food to fatten him up . |
| 18 | Another prison , indeed , but at least this one had a visitation promised . |
| 19 | This one had a prong like a dagger in its head . |
| 20 | American herbs such as this one have a history associated with the original Indian inhabitants of the North American continent including Canada , and it was Oswego Indians in particular who used the leaves as the beverage which gives it one of its common names . |
| 21 | I 'm afraid we have a lot of people in top management today whose background is such that they do n't really get involved with people on the shop floor . |
| 22 | Not just having a majority in parliament to govern you and that was being described at that particular time by the Tory government that their majority would be adequate they had a majority of twenty one . |
| 23 | If they feel that the committee is erring they have a duty to intervene and point out what they think is the best course . |
| 24 | It was clear he had a problem . |
| 25 | In the early eighteenth century about twenty families lived there , and according to the census of 1801 it had a population of 137 [ Baker , 2 , 720 ] . |
| 26 | The San Francisco Museum is loaning us their beautiful Dirck Bouts ‘ Madonna and Child ’ that was done from the same cartoon or pattern as ours , the main difference being that theirs has a brocade background and ours is plain . |
| 27 | Whenever she felt nervous she had a tendency to chatter , but there was no need to give chapter and verse . |
| 28 | I 'm at the moment negotiating with a , a previous sponsor an S K Bearings Europe Limited who have a plant at Peterlee who are very interested in looking at erm supporting our educational provision . |
| 29 | None were to be relieved who had a right to the benefit of the Insolvent Act currently going through Parliament , except by paying their clearance fees . |
| 30 | It is hexagonal and stands on seven columns ; the central one has a base of human figures and animals while the others are supported on the backs of lions . |