Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 2 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 3 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 4 | If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other . |
| 5 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 6 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 7 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 8 | One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings . |
| 9 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 10 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 11 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 12 | As an extra incentive to put money on the gas giants as havens of life we can note that each of them has an atmospheric layer where there is plenty of warm but polluted water . |
| 13 | I 'd a terrible urge to shout , Fuck-all 's well up this turret , mate ! |
| 14 | Oh I 'd a little workshop and used to make stuff . |
| 15 | " If it 's all the same to you , darling , I 'd a whole lot rather it did n't hurt . " |
| 16 | Have I had a busy day ? |
| 17 | O is ‘ Oh dear , can I have a second opinion ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If we 're so rich , can I have a new door ? |
| 19 | shall I have a new wedding ring ? |
| 20 | Can I have a new chair ? |
| 21 | Can I have a tiny bit of your glue . |
| 22 | Ca n't I have a tiny bit ? |
| 23 | Can I have a tiny sip please . |
| 24 | My hair 's dry now ; can I have a hot drink , please ? |
| 25 | Can I have a hot cross bun ? |
| 26 | Interrogating himself , he asks : Do I have a definite aim ? |
| 27 | Ask yourself ‘ What are the pay-offs of being shy , and do I have a vested interest in maintaining them ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What should I have a guilty feeling about ? ’ |
| 29 | May I have a simple answer , yes or no , and no shenanigans ? |
| 30 | ‘ Can I have a little time to think it over ? ’ |