Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Can I have for a long time . |
2 | My father taught me that there is only one thing more boring in life than listening to other people 's dreams and that is listening to stories about their operations ; and I only tell mine now because those I had during the early 1980s are as good an example as any of how modern medicine has helped to prolong life ; without them it is unlikely that I would be sitting here writing this . |
3 | No , I had over a thousand pound . |
4 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
5 | I had about a half hour to kill , I reckoned . |
6 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
7 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
8 | those there , cos those are the ones I had for the European elections |
9 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
10 | When it was all over I had on a wet blouse , but Shirnette had one on too . |
11 | I had on a white guipure lace dress and matching turban with a huge feather on the front . |
12 | ‘ I used mainly my green Ibanez that I had on the last tour , but for a Be-Bop solo on Giant Steps I used an Ibanez George Benson . |
13 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
16 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
17 | I now turn to the professional encounters I had in the late 1970s and early 1980s with two senior but very different public figures , Lord Mountbatten and Harold Macmillan ( later Earl of Stockton ) . |
18 | Remember that bit of bother I had in the Red Hart in Berkeley ? ’ he continued , ‘ the sailor went through the window . ’ |
19 | As far as I 'm concerned , and I 've through the whole scene of infertility , motherhood is about responsibility and privilege , it 's not about rights , and it 's responsibility that lasts a lifetime and it 's tremendous privilege to be a mother ! |
20 | Now I 've past the last base and you want me to just run through a minefield okay ? |
21 | I shall also attempt with Dorothy Heathcote , as I have with the other pioneers , to point to innovations or assumptions which are implicit in her work and which she herself may not have articulated . |
22 | ‘ You do n't seem to have any more clout with your two friends than I have with the three of you . ’ |
23 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
24 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
25 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
26 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
27 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The unusual job I have for a few weeks is to collect unpublished or limited circulation material for whizzkid computer boffins in Oxford to tag and analyse on computers . |
30 | But I want you to understand that , in making up my mind , I did not forget the country or the Commonwealth which , as Prince of Wales , I have for the last 23 years tried to serve . |