Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well when you say cake , do n't get the wrong ideas , erm my idea of a cake , the vision that I had of a , a three tier cake , came to me as I was striding home from a meeting across The Downs and I had this vision of a three tier cake . |
| 2 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 3 | I am not mad , most noble Festus , but in sober sadness I have suffered this day more bodily pain than I had before a conception of . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 8 | Ven made no move to detain her , not that she had for a second considered that he might . |
| 9 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 10 | By avoiding these foods , she has remained very well , and has far more energy in her fifties than she had as a teenager . |
| 11 | Anita Harris , who followed Camel with Carry on Doctor in 1968 — playing a nurse who looked more sexy in her cap and apron than she had as a belly dancer in the earlier film — suffered from being the butt of Ken 's jokes in both pictures . |
| 12 | Pineapple it was , that you had as a drink , that you did n't like . |
| 13 | Do not forget the significance of any shares that you hold in the company or any rights that you have under a share incentive scheme . |
| 14 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 15 | that we had in a six month period . |
| 16 | on the size or the whereabouts of the potential markets that we have as a theatre ? |
| 17 | With the tragedy that is Cyprus today and the role that we have as a guarantor power , will my right hon. Friend confirm that he is prepared to use the framework of the Western European Union to press for an acceptable solution — acceptable to all sides in Cyprus ? |
| 18 | But simply using his list and any additional items that we have as a check list , no more than that . |
| 19 | It is an interesting curiousity that the nearest thing that we have to a minimum wage was introduced by Winston Churchill that one-time Conservative Prime Minister , in an earlier political guise . |
| 20 | Then , assuming " phantom " chains , the change in free energy per chain as the end-to-end vector R changes to is Averaging over all chains and remembering that we have For a network of n chains per unit volume the change in free energy will be n times this . |
| 21 | It there are two exceptions , that I mentioned , we must give prior consideration in any vacancy that we have for a registered disabled applicant . |
| 22 | We make-believe that the dried skull is all that we have from a modern animal , use a plaster cast to estimate how big its brain was from the skull alone , and then check with the real brain to see how accurate our estimate was . |
| 23 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |
| 24 | Everything she hated was white : that slice of custard just now ; these little stones hard as sugared almonds at a christening ; the cones of rice , curly as white hyacinths , floating in a sea of whipped egg white , that they had as a supper treat ; the damask of the tablecloth that her sweaty palms would soil ; the chilly marble of the fireplace in the white salon ; the glistening pearls of tapioca that lurked at the bottom of soup . |
| 25 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 26 | Moreover , Stevenson 's theory , and the attitudinism sketched above , are at their most convincing in their treatment of value charged descriptive words , among which indeed even such words as ‘ good ’ can be counted when we are concerned with the meaning that they have in a homogeneous society . |
| 27 | The gene itself benefits , in terms of its vertical transmission , from the average effects that it has on a whole series of bodies . |
| 28 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 29 | The story of an ambitious clerk , strange home life that he has with a a lover or two . |
| 30 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |