Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a what they call the fighting game , or something to that effect and er the the I remember once I he seeing them having a cock fight . |
| 2 | Towsie watched until the red began to die out and then , bidding me to have a care and stand back , at the word of command they teemed their buckets on the fire . |
| 3 | It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do . |
| 4 | However , Ronnie Koeman was in the Holland team as captain in spite of Johan Cruyff , his manager at Barcelona , ordering him to have a week 's rest . |
| 5 | After one of Ralph 's more painful foolishnesses , she had once persuaded a lover to telephone Grunte pretending he had a message from Downing Street . |
| 6 | The first two fingers closed together as if he was a little kid pretending he had a gun . |
| 7 | Nah Wilko offloaded him cause Rocky knew which way to put his cashcard in the hole-int-wall implying he had a brain and there fore could think for himself — something Wilko do n't encourage . |
| 8 | Firstly — presuming you have a batch file to run Ability Plus — type in the batch filename . |
| 9 | On waking I had a look at Nigel and then telephoned Alan , to find out when he would be ready to drive him to the crematorium mortuary . |
| 10 | And then they were giving up and going to America , they were going They had a sister . |
| 11 | When it comes to racing he has a lifestyle problem . |
| 12 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 13 | Shiona swallowed , wishing she had a drink . |
| 14 | She set out across it , wishing she had a dog with her and admiring , over her shoulder , the neat prints of boot sole and heel that she left behind her as she walked . |
| 15 | With an effort , she drove from her mind the thought of the return journey , filling it instead with the experience of the moment , absorbing the sights , the impressions and sensations , storing them in her brain , wishing she had a notebook with her so that she could record them in all their vividness and immediacy . |
| 16 | Dew sat prettily on the roses , and they walked more slowly , Lucy looking at roses , Jay wishing she had a camera , knowing that , whatever else , now she was happy . |
| 17 | On Saturday morning she wrote one of those melancholy lost cat notices and attached it to a lamp standard , wishing she had a photograph . |
| 18 | ‘ We always finish our conversations ’ , Dorothy wrote , ‘ … with wishing we had a father and a home . ’ |
| 19 | He sucked the end of his pen , wishing he had a cigarette , trying to concentrate upon these last two sentences in his account of Robert 's alleged misdemeanours . |
| 20 | The party expects its young hopefuls to fight at least one unwinnable seat in a rotting inner city or municipal wilderness before letting them have a crack at a seat in the safe suburbs . |
| 21 | Although you may be able to fob off your opponent by letting them have a copy of your accounts ledger , you should not be in a position where you have to write off for copy receipts ; all these documents should be properly filed . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you saying I have a choice , Madame ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Just do n't go about saying you had a bang on the head . |
| 24 | Now I 'm letting you have a look at the sea before we call on her . |
| 25 | But when you come to something that says one or more closures of elderly persons ' homes in the east of the county , I do n't think it 's quite fair for people saying we have a right to be told on that , but that it 's insufficiently explicit for them to , to respond to consultation , and to bring their particularly cases forward . |
| 26 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 27 | Pat had come to him and asked to be able to buy the shop — not with any money she had available at that time , but on a never-never basis , letting him have a share in the takings until the value of the business had been reached . |
| 28 | Her pa her parents letting her have a tattoo and ! |
| 29 | Christina had offered to drive Stephen to the airport , but he had refused her offer in favour of James Morris 's , saying they had a lot to talk about . |
| 30 | He also denies that his staff overstepped the mark in lobbying , saying he has a responsibility to explain all the options for the trade in addition to a full ban . |