Example sentences of "[to-vb] have a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is another potentially liberating factor for the child with linguistic difficulties : her ability to draw has a value in the writing lesson . |
| 2 | Mind you there 's a lot of Northern Ireland lads in London anyway , erm we think that when our members voted to return the political levy they also voted to continue to have a say in the running of the Labour Party . |
| 3 | As for the East , it is a curiosity that Egypt , from which almost all of the rest of the evidence emanates , seems to have had a preference for using a joint clause of damnatio and fideicommissum . |
| 4 | Jean-Claude insisted to me more than once that to trans-pose Le Grand Meaulnes it was essential to have had a childhood like his own . |
| 5 | Erm which I think was , disappointed dad because erm I think he would like to have had a word with him . |
| 6 | The CNAA made ‘ a tacit political bargain with the DES … for the CNAA to have had a dagger in its hand and kill off the government scheme would not have done ’ . |
| 7 | For them to sign off price correct , they have got to have had a look at the measure . |
| 8 | His parents published a collection of his letters in 1919 , The Letters of Charles Sorley , which the Manchester Guardian thought ‘ contained the first mature impressions of a nature which was all vigour and radiance , a boy who may be said to have had a genius for truth ’ . |
| 9 | Second , according to Adomnan'ś Life of Columba , Oswald is said , reputedly on his own testimony , to have had a vision of St Columba on the eve of the battle of ‘ Heavenfield ’ , and as soon as he was established as king he sent a request to Columba 's monastic foundation on Iona among the Dalriadic Scots for a bishop , receiving in due course Aidan ( HE 111 , 3 ) . |
| 10 | He beatified Juan Diego , an Indian believed to have had a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1531 , denounced abortion and the use of contraceptives , and visited those southern and central states where protestant evangelism had made significant inroads over the previous 20 years . |
| 11 | If the source of ivory was elephant ( MacGregor 1985 ) , Indian or African , a larger number might be expected in Kent which appears to have had a dominance over many of the goods imported from the Continent and Mediterranean . |
| 12 | It is not thought to have had a stake in the video . |
| 13 | I think I was very lucky to have had a year in school , and therefore to know that ‘ real ’ teaching was not like School Practice . |
| 14 | If he seems to have had a foot in the door for an awfully long time then that is probably because he made his debut as an 18–year-old during the Dermot Reeve era . |
| 15 | The couple were mown down yards from their home by a car driven by 47-year-old Jill Gunns , who is believed to have had a row with her boy-friend . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't mind if the lads have a laugh at my expense , that 's all part of the dressing-room banter , but it does upset me that I 'm supposed to have had a row with the manager . |
| 17 | For years the Department of Transport argued that it was not its role to promote cycling , but recently the men from the ministry seem to have had a change of heart . |
| 18 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional success all the more thrilling . |
| 19 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional successes all the more thrilling . |
| 20 | The woman is said to have had a relationship with Antonio Luciani , who is serving 20 years for drug offences . |
| 21 | France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war . |
| 22 | As we have already noted , the Bishop of Rome , in A. D. 318 , is reported to have had a meeting with Nazarean or Desposyni leaders directly descended from Jesus 's family . |
| 23 | There are exceptions to this I would suggest that very high turn outs in the er local election , local elections in Harlow almost certainly because there was a lot of interest in it press interest because of the great battle in Old Harlow and that appears to have had a spin off effect on turn out in the other wards as well . |
| 24 | Every European country seems to have had a student of the Ceauşescu legend . |
| 25 | He appears to have had a copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle similar to E , but the later part of his work is filled with romance , and might seem to belong to what has been called the twelfth-century fictionalising history best exemplified by Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Britonum . |
| 26 | Nutritional improvement itself does not seem to have had a role in the effect of PEN in our study . |
| 27 | But St Thomas Aquinas ( 1225–74 ) , the leading scholastic theologian , is said to have had a reaction against the spirit of his work . |
| 28 | Moses seems to have had a fascination for Freud . |
| 29 | Plenty of time for her to have had a string of boyfriends and perhaps kiss and tell lovers … |
| 30 | Everyone is delighted to have had a glimpse of this most elusive and rare of British mammals , and there are smiles all round as we move on . |