Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 2 | ‘ Now look here , ’ said Otley , ‘ you asked me to have a bite with you and that venison does smell good . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing — except that your mother asked me to have a look at her wedding outfit before I go . |
| 4 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 6 | Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity . |
| 7 | I mentioned I had a daughter , Julia . |
| 8 | It was in the pleasure area , as usual , that I found I had a problem . |
| 9 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 10 | I found I had a code . ’ |
| 11 | And I found I had a room all to myself . |
| 12 | When I resumed my studies I found I had a lot of catching up to do . ’ |
| 13 | Suddenly Rachel found she had a lump in her throat . |
| 14 | You know as well as I do that Rudolfo 's the only one involved who has a house up there . |
| 15 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 16 | She found herself having a tug-of-war over her best bra , and felt an overwhelming impulse to giggle at the silliness of the situation . |
| 17 | They invited him to have a go . |
| 18 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 19 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 20 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 21 | ( The precise scope of executive privilege was unclear : the only Supreme Court ruling on the doctrine — the 1974 decision against Nixon — found it to have a basis in the Constitution but adjudicated that it should not provide an impediment to criminal prosecution . ) |
| 22 | Then as we commissioned our team for what is at the time of writing known as the King 's Arms church we experienced a pouring out of the gifts of the Spirit on those elders and leaders who were praying for the team : it seemed everyone had a word of instruction , a revelation , a tongue or an interpretation for the strengthening of the church . |
| 23 | Katharine and Benji had produced some nice work together and at this point Jennie told them to have a rest on a long rein for a few minutes . |
| 24 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 25 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 26 | They assumed I had a doctorate or something . ’ |
| 27 | But oh we we 'd we 'd a lot of good fiddlers in those days and a girl at the piano . |
| 28 | Then she noticed we had a child with us in a pushchair . |
| 29 | Before Linfield equalised they had a couple of efforts . |
| 30 | ‘ They were advising me to sell , and it seemed they had a taker who was offering a very generous price . |