Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’ |
| 2 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |
| 3 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 4 | If you have a low income and no more than £8,000 savings , you may qualify for Income Support , which is paid weekly and tops up any Income you have to a level set by the Government . |
| 5 | A thematic key to the diaries was a haunting experience she had as a child in Cornwall . |
| 6 | The opportunity you have as a student to do a lot of work is good though . |
| 7 | The unusual job I have for a few weeks is to collect unpublished or limited circulation material for whizzkid computer boffins in Oxford to tag and analyse on computers . |
| 8 | ‘ Could Beatrice perhaps be getting a bit old in herself , ’ I had suggested , ‘ or could it perhaps be something to do with the accident she had as a child ? ’ |
| 9 | Of course the moth went for the light , Jay went under the pillow , and the moth settled on a huge picture she had of a golden African dawn . |
| 10 | Usually she cries like the rain we had on a holiday once , up in Scotland — a soft , grey drizzle — but this time her body shook with real sobs . |
| 11 | In this case , exactly as one would expect , the adjective is acceptable in predicative position but only on condition that it bears the meaning it has as a non-separative . |
| 12 | The best route to any reconciliation is to pack the kiddies off to Grandma and try to recapture some of the fun you had as a couple before the pressures of parenthood took over . |
| 13 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 14 | Because of the after-effects of meningitis she had as a baby , I usually accompany her whenever she sees a doctor . |
| 15 | Er we 're going to continue our focus sponsorship on and corporate hospitality er we 're going to set up er a chairman and chief executives ' club which we er , we have now done being and that it 's the chief executives ' club , it 's their club , we facilitated , have er four or so er lunches er a year and a launch lunch for example we have as a keynote speaker . |
| 16 | Two boys were fondling a large panting dog they had on a lead . |
| 17 | There are those who claim to be able to tell you psychically just who you were and what sort of life you had in a previous existence . |
| 18 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 19 | It always surprised him a little that it was possible to fix the attention on the room itself , its furniture and objects , even before the bodies had been packaged and taken away , as if in their fixed and silent decrepitude they had for a moment become part of the room 's artefacts , as significant as any other physical clue , no more and no less . |
| 20 | He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away . |
| 21 | A businessman commenting on an experience he had in a stockbroker 's office in London when " I saw a beam of light between me and my eyes " commented , Although I was n't a particularly religious person , I realised immediately that this must be the thing that people call God . |
| 22 | I ca n't leave this part of the world without relating a story about another , less grisly trophy , carried home from Sutherland ; and the link it had with a polluted , southern stream , the White Cart , which empties into the Clyde estuary . |
| 23 | And then when you dredged across again cos you used t you always went er , you always had er er say every foot he had with a piece of spunyarn in the wire |
| 24 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 25 | This account I had from a person of honour . |
| 26 | The quality and amount of information you have about a subject can mark you out as a specialist who is an invaluable source of advice for others . |
| 27 | They reminded her of the cardboard kaleidoscope she had as a child , packed with coloured fragments , which she looked into for hours , turning and watching , turning and watching . |
| 28 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 29 | These J Wave scientists are investigating Britain 's club culture at close hand , and Norman Cook is the nearest thing they have to a perfect specimen . |
| 30 | Similarly , a figure of three lines enclosing a space , which is the idea we have of a triangle , has various properties as a consequence of being constructed in that way , properties such as having internal angles equal to two right angles , and external angles equal to internal opposites . |