Example sentences of "[adv] have the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ironic that Kent , such a devoted follower of his master , should have only had the fifth edition , and not the ‘ most nearly perfect of all ’ on which to base his teaching . |
| 2 | Susannah Lopez should perhaps have the last word : |
| 3 | You can maintain ‘ official ownership ’ of your case by summarising for the minutes ( 'Following my proposal the meeting agreed … ' ) and by literally having the last word on the item : ‘ So we 're agreed on that . |
| 4 | Alternatively , the speaking order can be : leading counsel for the appellant ; both counsel for the respondent ; junior counsel for the appellant ( who thus has the last word ) . |
| 5 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV will get its second capital injection of $500m from its backers by the end of June , its French state shareholder CEA-Industrie says : it already has the first payment of $250m each from France and Italy . |
| 6 | Well the first one 's already had the first chance |
| 7 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 8 | However , we have just had the third record increase in the amount of money that the Government have given to the Arts Council of Great Britain , which is directly responsible for passing on such moneys to the Royal Opera House , the Birmingham Royal Ballet and other companies . |
| 9 | McNamara already had the first spot in the bag and Moniz was out , so the battle was on for second place . |
| 10 | We already have the first stage of economic and monetary union — the exchange rate mechanism — and it is already doing great damage to Britain . |
| 11 | Tom Berman , now in Israel , still has the first letter his mother wrote from Czechoslovakia to the Millers in Glasgow on 14 June 1939 . |
| 12 | He does not mind being the butt of his colleagues ' jokes because he always has the last laugh . |
| 13 | But like most families while father appears to be the boss more often than not it 's mother who usually has the last word . |
| 14 | When one has the misfortune to make war in the interior of one 's own country , pure strategy can not always have the last word . |
| 15 | In these circumstances , as de Thomasson remarks , ‘ pure strategy can not always have the last word ’ Finally , could the nation morally survive the shock of losing Verdun , with all its legendary mystique ? |
| 16 | Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh . |
| 17 | ROBIN Smith , Hampshire 's defiant middle-order maestro , yesterday had the last word in his summer-long bitter duel with Waqar Younis . |
| 18 | The Scouse always had the last word . |
| 19 | Feminist humour is astutely observed by Jackie Fleming in Never Give Up ( Penguin , £4.99 ) , where women always have the last laugh . |
| 20 | There is one tablet from Knossos which lists several deities including Potnia and Enualios , a name which later was used as an alternative to Ares , the Greek war-god ; it also has the first part of Poseidon 's name , ‘ po-se-da- ’ , but the end is broken off . |
| 21 | OBJECTIVITY ALSO HAS THE FIRST OBJECT DATABASE FOR WINDOWS NT |
| 22 | the prodigal son , but you also have the second part of that which is almost a separate story of , the son who had not gone into the far country . |
| 23 | Laughed at when his US promoter described him as ‘ the new Marvin Hagler ’ ; now having the last laugh back home in Ilford |
| 24 | I do n't know whether that will actually happen , because Guild really have the first option , but I was hoping there 'd be a way that we could cooperate and perhaps Eggle could do the British end of it . |
| 25 | I can remember very well having the first cooker we had , gas cooker we had . |
| 26 | The trouble was , neither of us had been here before and Holyhead Mountain in the gathering gloom emphatically had the last laugh . |
| 27 | Comrades however had the last say when Dean Gordon grabbed a consolation goal for them on the stroke of full time . |
| 28 | And hundreds of steam fans who see diesels as the soulless railways ogre of the modern age certainly had the last chuckle at Holyhead . |