Example sentences of "[pers pn] has a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small trainer like me has a job to tick over , let alone make a living , but he always comes to the rescue . |
| 2 | If any man among you has a thought to share upon this most urgent matter , speak now . ’ |
| 3 | Shall I ask her if she has a friend to bring along for you ? ’ |
| 4 | Jean interrupts her before she has a chance to fumble into what those things are . |
| 5 | Insofar as Leapor presents herself as genuinely ugly , she has a chance to confound the gentleman 's expectation that a gifted writer will also have a charming appearance . |
| 6 | Make a point of visiting friends with children before starting at the mother-and-toddler group , so she has a chance to widen her circle before meeting more children and being overwhelmed . |
| 7 | Yes , it 's to kind of forestall Martha , before she has a chance to get in there . |
| 8 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 9 | She has a shiksah to do the housework . |
| 10 | The women in the village say , ‘ Poor Elizabeth , she has a lot to put up with , with that big old house and Angharad , and Hywel working so hard on the farm ’ , but their eyes gleam as they speak and they do not like her . |
| 11 | They could sell the shares to a stranger — who might decide he or she has a lot to contribute to the business . |
| 12 | She has a right to do what she chooses with her time , and interference often makes matters worse . |
| 13 | A man must divorce his wife if he can not get on with her ; she has a right to petition for divorce if he refuses to have sex with her . |
| 14 | ‘ She has a right to know , before anybody else tells her . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She is Ma 's daughter , after all , Carrie , and she has a right to know , ’ Julia said . |
| 16 | The country of Boaz becomes her country , she is no longer a foreigner here now she has a right to stay because of Boaz And we are citizens of a new country , of a new kingdom . |
| 17 | Roughly , unilateralism provides that the plaintiff must win if he or she has a right to win established in the explicit extension of some legal convention , but that otherwise the defendant must win . |
| 18 | He even suggests that a threat to deprive a woman of something she has a right to expect should not necessarily be sufficient . |
| 19 | This morning she gives priority to the fact that it is the first day of the winter term , and that she has a lecture to deliver and two tutorials to conduct . |
| 20 | She has a job to do , and she 's doing it quite well . |
| 21 | Worse , if you have an astute sub-editor , or even a conscious one , he/she has a tendency to write all over your nice clean copy with a felt-tip , which is like having people tread on your geraniums . |
| 22 | He has a scheme to take over a small number of simple churches and adapt them as retreats . |
| 23 | He can indulge himself with whichever other women attract him , but you 're to remain for his exclusive use , keeping yourself unencumbered , ready and available for whenever he has a whim to renew the relationship ? ’ |
| 24 | He has a man to do the finances , but he drives the tractors and so on . |
| 25 | ‘ He has a part to play for this club . |
| 26 | Unless he has a part to play he is unlikely to attend after the first appearance . |
| 27 | He is due here around 27th as he has a seminar to give in the psychology department of Edinburgh University on 28th . |
| 28 | I wonder if he has a certificate to carry a weapon ? |
| 29 | He has a tendency to give abstract theory in unnecessarily dense language without examples ; this is difficult to absorb , and consequently , when we reach the extended analyses in Chapter 5 , there is a temptation constantly to flick back to the earlier chapters to try to clarify the theory . |
| 30 | He has a mission to declare and practise ahi sā in a world where hi sā abounds . |