Example sentences of "[adv prt] and have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We are aware there is a degree of anxiety among the public and so we have taken steps not only to contact those people concerned but to set up a helpline so any member of the public can ring in and have private counselling . ’ |
2 | ‘ Come in and have some tea , ’ a cut-glass voice invited . |
3 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
4 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
5 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
6 | Eric had rolled over and had one hand under his head , the other over his eyes . |
7 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
8 | So , if you are aged 18 and over and have healthy hair that 's in fabulous condition , you could be the lucky winner of this year 's title . |
9 | And then David 's coming over and having three weeks , so she 'll be over seven weeks |
10 | ‘ Well , come on and have some lunch . |
11 | You have to write and and write more details or put more pressure on and have more people write . |
12 | We are off and have great excitement fishing up treasure ( fake ) tied to bladders . |
13 | Like that would then pay that off and have another mortgage . |
14 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
15 | Alright , I think we 'd better give up and have some breakfast . |
16 | Rather exasperated , I began to get out and had one foot still on the running board when I heard a woman 's voice call : |
17 | ‘ Here is Mr Bailey 's version : ‘ Oh Marjie , we always read your column Marjie , For Forty years , you 're our favourite Agony Aunt , You 've given thousands good advice , that 's what we want , Oh Marjie , long may your column greet our eyes each waking day , Count your job a task well done , now go out and have some fun . |
18 | James and I continued to go out and have lovely times together , but after a couple of years it slowly began to dawn on me that I was expanding . |
19 | This was the view expressed by Anne Smith about Bellerby Feast which , like so many other traditions , was tottering on the very brink of extinction in 1985 when it was pulled back and had new life breathed into it . |
20 | So you have to go back and have another shirt . |
21 | Go back and have another look at the Sits Vac . |
22 | Finally , stand back and have another look at the fish … is it really as good as you first thought , or have you become less impressed with it , the more you have been close to it ? |
23 | Unfortunately in Perk 's case , her innocence leads to her death after on her way to school wearing her yellow dress , she pops into see her Godmother who is often referred to as the most beautiful woman around and has beautiful skin , a good body and lovely thick dark curly hair . |
24 | I can split them up , and then I 'm not needed , and I can just wander round and have this panorama , and you see who 's working and who is n't . |