Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] 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 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | Sunday afternoon , remembering in between this you had a mile home again for Sunday dinner , and back again in the afternoon for Sunday School . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid you have a murder on your hands , Inspector . " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And because of this we have a choice where to alter the theory when things go wrong at the observational level . |
| 13 | Again in this we have a speaker creating a " persona " by the use of code switching . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If they feel that the committee is erring they have a duty to intervene and point out what they think is the best course . |
| 17 | It was clear he had a problem . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Whenever she felt nervous she had a tendency to chatter , but there was no need to give chapter and verse . |
| 21 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 22 | No wonder the police had given Wheeler a roasting about security ; it was amazing they had a piece of altar silver to bless themselves with . |
| 23 | At the second he had a bogey five to James 's three and was five strokes adrift . |
| 24 | His success is such that at 45 he has a salary of nearly £1m a year . |
| 25 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he said , ‘ the other ferryman , you sad he had a widow . |
| 26 | You see , if Bill comes over he has a go at Bill , even though he knows Bill , but because he do n't see him that much he has a go at him . |
| 27 | That 's right she has a sort of massive dose every now and then . |
| 28 | Oh right that 's right you had a deli did n't you ? |
| 29 | So from a view of the president as impotent and ineffective and helpless you have a view of the president as being er the action man , the crisis manager and it 's Lincoln 's view , the Linc Lin Lincolnian view of the presidency which has survived er an and developed with , with the odd , the odd hark back to a previous , a previous age . |
| 30 | Moderator and friends let me say first of all that I 'm glad to be able to make these speeches on behalf of the member churches of and I 'd like to also on , particularly on behalf of the England and Wales , though I did realise having said that that you have a minister of the University of Penryth is also a member of this Synod , and therefore , you 've got me three things ! |