Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go .
2 If you 've recently joined the NCT , or you have a new baby then let me know and I 'll put you in contact with another member who lives nearby .
3 ‘ You , Fernando Serra , are either lying through your teeth , putting on a brave face or you have the same loose sort of arrangement with your mistress as you accused me of having with Steve . ’
4 So you are unlikely to be given an exhibition unless your work is already known by the gallery or you have an established reputation and proven success .
5 Before the provision contained in rule 3(7) was enacted , the law governing standing to apply for prerogative orders was , in simplified terms , as follows : a person could apply for certiorari or prohibition provided he or she had a genuine grievance or , in other words , provided the applicant was a person aggrieved by the challenged decision .
6 His Offensive Weapons ( Scotland ) Bill would put the onus on the person carrying a knife to prove he or she had a valid reason for doing so .
7 Does he or she have a significant past medical history which will influence good wound healing ?
8 The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other .
9 Your plugger should contact all the DJs with whom he or she has a good relationship , trying to persuade them to play your record .
10 The second must be that he or she has a long life .
11 That is to say , if the child is black ( reality ) , he or she must first recognise and accept that he or she has a black psychic image .
12 If the researcher is interested in discussions of government finance in the Treasury , he or she has a potential problem of informational over-kill .
13 Under the established system for electing members to the House of Commons , each elector has only one vote in a general election ; each constituency returns only one Member of Parliament ; and Members of the House of Commons are elected on a first-past-the-post ( winner takes all ) system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the seat whether or not he or she has an overall majority of all the votes cast in the constituency .
14 We have to assume that , if someone wants to explore a concept or examine an idea , he or she has an intelligent , enquiring mind .
15 In operational terms , someone has a need for health care if he or she has the appropriate indications for the intervention in question .
16 She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement .
17 Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion .
18 In a spoken message we notice the quality of the voice as well : maybe the speaker 's voice was shaking , or they had a particular accent , or hesitated , or slurred their words .
19 Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions .
20 Or they have a little book where they can look it up .
21 Many people visit their doctors to have their ears syringed — often because their hearing is impaired or they have a bad earache .
22 Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization .
23 For the first time , Shirnette and me had a real fight , because of what I hated most .
24 Get 'em off your chest ; you 'll feel better for it and I 've a broad back . "
25 ‘ I 'm working on instinct , ’ he said thickly , ‘ but I 'm a fast learner , and I 've a good enough idea how to keep you in line .
26 It does piss you off admittedly when scum are on so much , and I 've a sneaking feeling that Leeds have still not been forgiven in some parts of the press for being close enough to sneak the title when scum fucked up ( due to Fuckerson 's crap team selection ) .
27 Lot twenty five little red Peter Pan there it is now showing , thank you and I 've a hundred pounds offered for this , any more at one hundred ?
28 And Lot sixty two is the Edison ephemera , Lot sixty two , and I 've a hundred offered for this , one hundred pounds , any more ?
29 . Lot eighty eight is another similar Gem , there it is , thank you , Lot eighty eight and I 've a hundred and fifty offered for this one sixty seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , and twenty , two forty two forty , any more at two forty ?
30 Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set .
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