Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were conscious as well that in venturing into this brave new Unix world that accountants being fairly boring individuals , I mean how many accountants do I have in the audience today ? |
| 2 | I had agonised over its content , discussing it with Caroline , my wife , who knew the reservations I had over the job I was doing . |
| 3 | I was now completely in the dark and it was here that I would shoot whatever film I had onto the skirting board of my makeshift cinema . |
| 4 | ‘ I used the only fact I had about the man who had dealt with the News of the World . |
| 5 | And I 'll write about the strange talk I had with the Nielsen woman . |
| 6 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 7 | On the contrary , the differences between us seemed to strengthen the bond I had with the boy : when we grew up , we were going to get married and have babies . |
| 8 | Oh I had with the other , I would n't go back |
| 9 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 10 | Well this is the one with the business I had with the library . |
| 11 | But I have to restrict myself , otherwise I will face the same problem I had with the books — the lack of somewhere to lodge all these wonderful toys . |
| 12 | ‘ I did not want to lower my standards and lose the special relationship I had with the fans . |
| 13 | The only problem I had with the book is that it is hinged on the premise that hardened psychopaths are capable of deep love — somehow that does n't ring true . |
| 14 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 15 | A day I had on the Severn some years ago exemplifies the contrariness of chub . |
| 16 | ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’ |
| 17 | And that 's what makes , that 's how it is , that 's the only , only step I had on the way you know what you 're doing . |
| 18 | So then I had on the train . |
| 19 | I had on the Ring of Luned that brings invisibility , and I saw the Glass Castle and the chains hanging in the Great Tower . |
| 20 | I had on the programme Brahms 's Fourth Symphony and at the rehearsal Lamond said to me , ‘ You know , I knew Brahms ; I heard him conduct this piece . ’ |
| 21 | Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’ |
| 22 | No I had , I had of the chemist in Chapel because it came |
| 23 | But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown ! |
| 24 | I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce . |
| 25 | The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’ |
| 26 | I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion . |
| 27 | The worst problem I had at the palace was the Queen 's dwarf . |
| 28 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 29 | All I had at the end was a sore hand and broken fingernails . |
| 30 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |