Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] have a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 2 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
| 3 | In many ways I 've had a fuller and more satisfying life since then , and I know that my children still need me in lots of ways . |
| 4 | No , I 've had a better idea ! |
| 5 | With a certain reluctance she agreed to have a further examination , and tests were taken from the cervix and urethra . |
| 6 | Then , when you get the chance , you want to have a closer look and check it out . |
| 7 | Her GP informed us that she has had a further recurrence of left hemiparesis and , after investigation , the provisional diagnosis is demyelination . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’ |
| 9 | He would have enjoyed the odd weekend in Brighton away from the pressures of London life , if only she 'd had a bigger flat . |
| 10 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
| 11 | When we apply these views to early childhood we begin to have a clearer picture of deaf children 's future . |
| 12 | In practice we know have a greater quantity of food , more choice of different foods with less seasonal variation and of better quality than every before , all at a cheaper price . |
| 13 | However , if we continue to have a milder climate , it could mount a takeover bid in the garden . |
| 14 | Chair , on the recommendations erm on item D , I 'm a bit unhappy about the use of the term ‘ natural ’ disasters , because I believe that many of the disasters that people in Oxford are actually giving money for are man made disasters , particularly matters of international economics and the unfair burden , erm unfair distribution of wealth which places a whole sector of the world in poverty , and I think , you know , you do get a magnificent response from people in Oxford to these charities , and we must be aware that there are a whole number of greater issues involved , and while I hear what you 're saying earlier on about you ca n't take on the problems of the whole world , I think when people are actually giving money to charities for example , like Oxfam , they are often unaware of these issues , and we do have a wider role in making the , joining with organisations like Oxfam in spreading public awareness on these issues . |
| 15 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 16 | ‘ You say we have no liberties , ’ Hope replied to a rather over-eloquent statement of George 's , ‘ but I can think of no time when we have had a greater chance to take what freedom we want . |
| 17 | Erm I 've had one comment from the people in Nottingham , that er we need to have a clearer idea of exactly what we want from people , and then let them go away and and read more detailed bumf in more detail . |
| 18 | If it still remains uncomfortable , then we , then we need to have a closer look and we may need to get the eye specialist involved if it 's refused to settle down . |
| 19 | And to do both we need to have a better and clearer idea of what an educational tool for learning looks like . |
| 20 | Indeed , they tend to have a higher net output per employee than two of the major non-assisted areas ( the east Midlands and the West Midlands ) though the South-East and also East Anglia had higher productivity than all the assisted areas in 1971 . |
| 21 | ‘ They seem to have a better idea of the indie ethic in America , ’ muses Jim . |
| 22 | In other words , although they suppress the aberrant antibody , they suppress other antibody production too and also the production of blood cells , yet they seem to have a greater effect on the abnormal antibody than they do on normal ones and in quite large numbers of patients that have been treated in this way the side effects are really relatively slight . |
| 23 | In ISIS 2 a lot of people received heparin , although not randomised , in addition to aspirin and thrombolysis and they appeared to have a lower mortality than those who did not get heparin . |
| 24 | Whereas it seems unlikely that these concerns have penetrated school syllabuses , it is possible , given the much greater autonomy of institutions of higher education , that they have had a greater influence on higher education syllabuses . |
| 25 | The hemi-epiphytic Ficus microcarpa of Malesia has a caruncle around the fruit inside the syconium ; when it is removed , the fruit is less likely to be ant-transported and those with it removed had a higher germination rate . |
| 26 | Although the entrants to public sector HE do have a higher proportion from lower non-manual and manual backgrounds ( social classes III-V ) they are still in the minority ( Redpath and Harvey , 1987 ) . |
| 27 | It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence . |
| 28 | and he does have a better understanding of that person 's role , even though |