Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Or I have supreme confidence in myself that she will return to me , ’ he told her smoothly .
2 Or I have some vodka in the fridge .
3 ‘ Neither my brothers or sister or I have any children , ’ said Pakeezah when her mother had finished telling the story .
4 VARIABLES — Characteristics , attributes or qualities that can vary in magnitude among individual cases or which have different categories are referred to as variables in statistical analyses where , usually , their relationship ( for example , between education of mothers and the number of children ever born to them ) is studied .
5 If you can afford private treatment , or you have medical insurance cover to pay for it , you may prefer to take on a full treatment programme with the specialist physiotherapist .
6 After a while you get when you first start the first time you ever ride a two wheeler and you have someone holding it or you have some stabilizers on till you know what you 're doing .
7 ‘ Often , operatives who are self-taught or who have minimal instruction will use the equipment for a very limited range of tasks , never realising its full potential .
8 People who have infected sores , such as boils or styes , or who have diarrhoeal conditions , should not prepare food , especially when it is to be distributed to large numbers .
9 There are still schools which take registers separately , the boys and the girls separately , or who have pink library book cards for girls and blue library book cards for boys .
10 But some people do need to exercise constraint : diabetics , people with high blood pressure , those who are very overweight or who have high blood cholesterol , those who binge if a craving is indulged .
11 The term ‘ blind ’ should be used carefully to describe those pupils who are completely without vision , or who have light perception only .
12 They are designed primarily for practitioners who are either currently working or who have previous work experience in the industry .
13 It takes place at the College of Technology in Kevin Street — but it is only open to those already accepted as a trainee or who have some position in a recognised organisation .
14 However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ?
15 Either they have a sufficient leverage over processing and marketing , for example in the extractive industries , as shown in Moran 's book ( 1974 ) on the copper industry in Chile , or they have sufficient control over intra-firm transfers , particularly transfer pricing .
16 Neither my right hon. Friend nor I have any plan to meet a delegation of members of the campaign for Clydeside against pollution .
17 ‘ As you well know , Polly , neither Lord Byron nor I have any sense of humour , being British , ’ said Shelley .
18 Neither you nor I have any claim on this house , and you know it .
19 Neither John nor I have any objection to use of his history , especially if the information is of benefit to someone else .
20 ‘ Mr Wilder and I have private matters to discuss . ’
21 This is clearly seen in the crypt at Lastingham in North Yorkshire , and I have personal experience of the power of this place .
22 Thus , perhaps , I believe that my children are at present playing in the garden at home , and I have good reasons for this belief .
23 Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things :
24 ‘ Yes — and I have good neighbours which is pleasant . ’
25 My brother and I are very close and I have faint memories of visiting him , when he was a day old , in hospital .
26 My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I have regular exchanges of views with CBI ( Scotland ) on a variety of matters .
27 And I have regular letters and comments from returning guests saying how friendly and helpful the staff have been . ’
28 ‘ Fortunately , my wife and I have separate accounts ! ’
29 Sister Gemma , a Holy Rosary Sister , and I have 11 schools to look after — three in townships ( that is , black towns attached to white towns ) and eight in rural areas ( that is , farm schools , built on farm land for children of farm workers ) .
30 The British sign language we use here has many similarities to the sign language used in Scotland and England and I have little difficulty in talking to deaf people on the mainland .
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