Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] has [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
| 2 | , writes : PLEASE end an argument and say who has most vans and lorries , British Telecom or the Post Office . |
| 3 | The society claims , however , that recent votes show it has 3-1 support in the House of Lords and more in the Commons . |
| 4 | ‘ Cross your fingers and hope he has another order for me . ’ |
| 5 | I vow she has speaking eyes ! |
| 6 | ‘ I only know it has four wheels and it goes , ’ she said , laughing . |
| 7 | Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ? |
| 8 | " We know he has Nationalist sympathies … " |
| 9 | Try to recognise this man early in the meeting and , when an item comes up on which you know he has some expertise , ask him for his opinion . |
| 10 | ‘ I believe everyone has innate creativity ’ she confided in me , ‘ but with some it just takes a little bit of coaxing before it will surface ’ . |
| 11 | I understand she has large ideas , but there 's nothing grand or glamorous about this place . ’ |
| 12 | Dead metaphors also have a certain syntactic rigidity ; the quality of being ‘ dead ’ is closely tied to a particular syntactic form , and with any modification the metaphor springs to life : compare He has one foot in the grave and One of his feet is in the grave . |
| 13 | President of er has warned that there could be a real and serious civil war and the conflict that there is between Armenian people and Azerbaijan , I 'm not sure that I understand it , but I suppose it has some similarities to so many other conflicts we see around the world , Northern Ireland , er Yugoslavia , just , it goes back hundreds of years and . |
| 14 | Mind , ’ she added fairly , ‘ I suppose he has some justification ; even I have to admit that he 's the most devastating-looking man this side of the Boyne , and women do tend to try and — er — interest him . ’ |
| 15 | " If I find he has any connections with Ireland , I 'll kill him , " Katherine Lundy snapped , and Michael Lee suddenly realized that hi did n't know if she was serious or not . |
| 16 | Worse , they feel it has little relevance to everyday business decisions , where right and wrong are by no means always clear-cut . |
| 17 | There are , however , some hostile tribes far in the interior , but I trust he has sufficient prudence not to venture within their district . |
| 18 | ‘ I think she has other plans for this man , ’ murmured Adele . |
| 19 | Marxist approaches argue that economic relations more or less determine who has political power and how this political power is exercised , with power being concentrated in the hands of the bourgeoisie . |
| 20 | I think he has good potential . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I think he has enough talent to have been included many more times . |
| 22 | I am looking forward to seeing Brian Deane , I think he has more strings to his bow than Chapman . |
| 23 | Now erm if he had any as somebody says , well no I think he has some thought er simply |
| 24 | With its low market share it has higher costs than the rival , and so , by pricing to give its rival a zero NPV , it can only earn a negative NPV itself . |
| 25 | He opens the door no wider than an old lady would , and I notice he has one foot firmly behind it just in case . |