Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 2 | ‘ Can I have some tomatoes for Henry and Murgatroyd ? ’ |
| 3 | can I have some money for the chippie |
| 4 | and said can I have some money for me tonight , I said well I was gon na get a cheque out the Abbey National , he said oh no he said work day to day and I thought oh |
| 5 | Can I have some respect for the speaker |
| 6 | And I I think I had great admiration for the er in particular for the the woman who was the erm president of the tenants association . |
| 7 | I had great hopes for him , and for the school under his leadership . |
| 8 | I also did a great deal of business with Alfred Gates , director of Ackermann 's , and I had great respect for him . |
| 9 | I had grander plans for my future than that . |
| 10 | I had such hopes for them , and was even pleased when , at the age of seven , Paheri asked to enter the priesthood . |
| 11 | I had such hopes for him ! |
| 12 | I wanted to hate him for doing this to me , so much earlier than I had thought it would be done , but it was difficult to hate a man I had such respect for . |
| 13 | ‘ You see , Merrill , I had two reasons for wanting to keep you and Rob apart . ’ |
| 14 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 15 | I had hot water for the first time on the island . |
| 16 | I must say , I had certain ambitions for higher education myself , but when you receive the call , as they say , those cherished dreams just have to go by the board . |
| 17 | ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed . |
| 18 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 19 | I wish I had more time for reading ; it means a lot to me . ’ |
| 20 | That was best night 's sleep I had last night for ages . |
| 21 | To the late Dr Melville Clark , the Reader in Rhetoric , I owe the discovery that I had some talent for editing text . |
| 22 | You know what I had this morning for my breakfast ? |
| 23 | Well I think he 's at my other school before common entrance I had this teacher for two years got forty percent and that 's . |
| 24 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 25 | I HAD particular reasons for enjoying an article in the Sunday Times last weekend which suggested that only on three occasions in recent decades has satire actually had a real impact on our political life . |
| 26 | But I do n't like it here , and I 've good reason for going . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've more time for other beauties , ’ the young man responded and squatted comfortably , his back against the turf bank . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've another surprise for you , me boys , ’ their father said . |
| 29 | Well we never use them and I 've another reason for wanting rid of them . |
| 30 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |