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Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Can I have a small Pick and Mix ?
2	, oh I hate shopping , I had a massive hang over , right piss up the night before , Sunday .
3	But I I could n't get over you know , I say , I had a quick look the other at Marks you know , to even do the Christmas serviettes they 're doing a lot more and they said if people are n't buying as much on the clothes side erm so they they 've come down , I mean now I can get erm come over , and I said you 've never looked at Marks I said you never buy clothes , I said have a look in Marks , I said they do some really lovely
4	If I have , I can arrange the pattern so that I 've a complete repeat at the edge of the knitting .
5	In my two foot tank I have a Red Tailed Albino Shark , Neons , Algae Eaters and some Guppies .
6	For example , she has a good looking man friend called Godfrey Norton , a lawyer , who often visits her .
7	Yeah , but did you have a big fry up ?
8	Do you have a big do ?
9	Her round bilge construction and narrow beam made her pitch and roll excessively , I always thought she had a bad feel about her .
10	Every week she was able to give Aunt Sarah something for her keep and she had a little left over to save .
11	‘ Perhaps it would be better if you had a nice lie down , ’ Mrs Hobbs was saying .
12	That 's very good for a first — you have a great feel for it ! ’
13	Not only do you go to work knowing that your child is in safe hands , but you have a ready made friend , sympathetic listener and companion for you and your child all in one neat package .
14	You have a quick look you , you , you think that could be a child 's one and you think well .
15	To the left of the camera , and probably at the other end of the studio to get the size ratio right , we had a black draped set for the miniaturised companion to walk in front of .
16	we had a big , we had a big do you want a and a drink of milk ?
17	We have a real laugh you see , he 's such a queer bloke and all !
18	We expected people to just come and go , but most did n't — they had a great get together . ’
19	When the mining companies discovered that they had a valuable find on their hands , they took de facto control of the land in the immediate vicinity . ’
20	They have a full say in selecting schools for their children , on governing bodies where the allocation of resources is decided , and whether or not a school should opt out of local authority control , a decision which could affect the status and position of history in a school .
21	But they nowadays they have a full coming over .
22	I tell you what amazes me , Mary , he takes , he can take a conference , when they have a big do he puts them there for the , you know for their dinner or whatever they
23	For non-Hindi households , English is now the weapon which will enable them to have a sufficient say in national administrative affairs .
24	It has a white painted top-half with black lines where beams should be , red brick cladding for the ground floor , and a thick wooden door studded with medieval wheel-nuts .
25	It has a brief dubbed ‘ The Sale of the Century ’ , in which the British Government is one of the major investors .
26	Always shrimps , bread and butter , a bowl of mustard and cress and a rich , light , golden sponge-cake baked that morning in the oven with the Sunday joint so that it had a faint savour of burnt meat fat .
27	It had a single curved platform and a handsome waiting-room , and provided access from the railway to the royal yacht .
28	It had a different feel to it , a different look , a different smell .
29	It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect .
30	His long face was set in a lugubrious expression , and he had a slight squint owing to the length of his nose , which , to Cleo 's eyes , was a veritable proboscis .