Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was a boy my parents had a bookshop like this in Plymouth . |
| 2 | My parents had a point , too . |
| 3 | My parents have a Yorkshire Terrier , and a more obnoxious little dog I have never met ! |
| 4 | ‘ I am asking my accountants to have a look at it . |
| 5 | One of my sows has a litter about three days old . |
| 6 | I remember when one of my girls had an abortion , I was like a maniac for days after . |
| 7 | Daphne : " I would be scared out of my wits to have a giraffe — it 's a wild animal and far too big for our garden ! " |
| 8 | Any of my colleagues have a number in their mind ? |
| 9 | And then we were at Frinton , masses of us , and we always used to go to Frinton in the summer because one of my uncles had a house there and we knew the people who erm dad used to play golf and mother used to knit on the beach , you know . |
| 10 | Their views have a reality which management must treat seriously , but to bring the worlds of common sense , theory and research together brings its own difficulties . |
| 11 | Erm Newark and Sherwood District Council , er er instigating a customer comments procedure , erm whereby you can write or ring or anything at all that you think would improve their services , or anything suitable or anything like that , and there are details about it there , er with erm a flow chart , erm what the action that will be taken if their clients have a look at that , one of them 's just to receive public comments about their performance , I suppose it 's to do with er |
| 12 | Teachers with pupils with defective vision in their classes have an interest in knowing how such children are identified and what services and professionals are involved in this procedure . |
| 13 | To satisfy political aspirations some LDCs ' governments nationalised ( took into state ownership ) foreign banking operations , whilst others insisted on local incorporation into a subsidiary company in which the government or its nationals had a shareholding . |
| 14 | The DNs were asked to indicate whether their patients had a history of a selected list of conditions which could suggest venous and/ or arterial insufficiency . |
| 15 | Our findings are based on a cohort of women seeking insemination treatment because their partners had a fertility problem . |
| 16 | The hotel has a bar and breakfast room and all of its rooms have a bath/shower , WC , radio , TV and telephone . |
| 17 | It is therefore increasingly important for their teachers to have a knowledge of theories of language acquisition . |
| 18 | Her meals had a variety of dry finger foods like bread and butter , fish fingers or chips and some mushy foods like apple purée . |
| 19 | The fishermen and their children have a habit of holding fish between their teeth to prevent their escape while searching for another . |
| 20 | In all , 159 ( 73% ) participants reported that their practices had an asthma clinic ; 167 ( 77% ) practices had a practice nurse with special knowledge of asthma , 204 ( 94% ) owned a nebuliser , 135 ( 62% ) operated a practice asthma protocol , and 179 ( 82% ) had a register of asthma patients . |
| 21 | The soldiers , sailors and airwomen are among 5,500 women illegally forced to give up their careers to have a family , according to a European Equal Opportunities Commission ruling . |
| 22 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 23 | Their folks have a lot of explaining to do , if you want my opinion , particularly the mums . |
| 24 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 25 | Ask Clint whether he feels it has been tough for his kids having a superstar dad and he looks cagey : ‘ Everyone worries about their kids . |
| 26 | Yet his subjects had a right of resistance , of rebellion against him , if he failed to rule them justly and to give them due protection . |
| 27 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 28 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 29 | But despite his disability his eyes had a twinkle and Wycliffe felt that he was in the presence of a truly contented man . |
| 30 | In fact everything about him was shiny ; his hair , face , clothes , briefcase , shoes , fingernails , even his ears had a shine to them . |