Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [verb] an " in BNC.
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1 | Where you 've got smokers or you 've got an open fire |
2 | He expresses scepticism about Frankfurt 's boast of being able to fill their stadium for every session : ‘ I do n't think they will get 9,000 every day , but I would have achieved that here , where we have developed an audience for the game . |
3 | No , a tent , or we 've got an estate car if it 's just a weekend jaunt , and it 's maybe wet , we just sleep in the back of the car |
4 | Erm you know people know the answers questions or they 've got an idea material of your own experience you know a lot more than they do , but it 's good technique to throw it back to the group . |
5 | Sir Robert Muldoon , the former National Party leader and Prime Minister in 1975-84 , condemned the government 's welfare cuts and said on his weekly radio programme on Nov. 17 that he would leave Parliament ( where he had represented an Auckland constituency for over 30 years ) early in 1992 . |
6 | ( This perception is if anything stronger in the popular culture in the USA , where it has bred an academic response in the form of the Extrovert Professor who can take on anybody , physically or mentally ) . |
7 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
8 | And I 've told you before that I 've noticed an atmosphere in the office now and again . |
9 | I feel now that I 've got an epitaph at the end of my life that I did something , I was n't a taker … |
10 | I reported last time that I 'd made an approach to Chris . |
11 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
12 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
13 | I then found out that I 'd had an infection and raging temperature all the way through and Amber was born with it , too . |
14 | The fact that I had adopted an alternative approach via traditional Chinese medicine was brushed aside as irrelevant . |
15 | And when I got Dawn , I did sense that I had formed an almost human relationship with her . |
16 | When I woke up it was with the certainty that I had solved an extremely important problem and was eager to try it out at once . |
17 | Driving to a knitting meeting with Bryan our Club President , I happened to mention that I had acquired an old Empisal 100 for knitting thicker yarns and slub cottons . |
18 | Beejay suspects that I have spotted an alternative to misbehave over and can not resist a sideways look . |
19 | What is self-authenticating is the fact that I have had an experience . |
20 | But to say that I have had an experience of God , whom I claim to be a transcendent being outside myself , can not be self-authenticating . |
21 | But she did not realize that although she had broken an accepted social rule , she had done nothing against nature . |
22 | MARY BAILEY revealed that she had kept an Oscar that was terrified by earthworms . |
23 | She boasted that she had obtained an American wonderdrug called Cancell which could successfully treat these incurable diseases . |
24 | She already knew from the sour expressions of the French wives among the gathering and the open admiration in the eyes of their sallow , perspiring spouses that she had achieved an outstanding success with her greatest extravagance , a simple couture gown of lilac organza . |
25 | It did not stop her knowing that she had made an idiot of herself and upset Harriet Shakespeare , who had enough trouble without that . |
26 | She knew that she had made an impression on Nicky , simply by the way he had looked at her when he and his mother had said goodbye . |
27 | As women do , she probably knew that she had made an impression on him on the two or three occasions they had met at Muthaiga . |
28 | Within the ruling National Opposition Union ( UNO ) coalition there was growing criticism of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , and of her inner Cabinet of advisors headed by Lacayo , on the grounds that she had made an " illegitimate and immoral marriage " with the FSLN . |
29 | Twiggy 's health came into the spotlight recently , with at least one tabloid paper suggesting in banner headlines that she had undergone an operation to save her life . |
30 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |