Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have a special [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to have a special dread of Friday afternoons . |
| 2 | I used to have a special gimmick — when I used to do my clog dance , I used to shout to the audience , ‘ Throw pennies , ’ and that 's what they used to do . |
| 3 | If you are using the Drachenfels Lives ! adventure ( see Adventures in Castle Drachenfels ) , you may have a special scene in the Pit , showing a man in an iron mask greeting a bunch of people who are exact duplicates of the adventurers . |
| 4 | If the patient can not walk at all , you should have a special wheelchair for outdoor use ; while an indoor wheelchair has large back wheels and relatively thin tyres , the outdoor version may have four small wheels with thick fat tyres , which should be kept pumped up to the correct pressure . |
| 5 | It was just that — well , I thought you might have a special interest in what we found out — ’ |
| 6 | You used to have a special chopper for your mangles and it was like a big mincing machine , with a great big wheel on , and you used to fill it full of er mangles , or turnips and it used to come out like chips . |
| 7 | If your shop accepts credit cards ( eg Access , Visa etc ) you will have a special form on which to record details of the transaction together with a machine which imprints the details from the card on to the form . |
| 8 | You can have a special phone fitted . |
| 9 | I thought we would have a special party , just the two of us . ’ |
| 10 | Erm , I do n't think either a father or a mother intrinsically has to be necessary , I think what 's important is that children should have access to a variety of loving adults , one or two , or maybe three of those who they should have a special relationship with , does n't matter whether they 're male or female , so long as the , the children are loved and they feel secure and happy , it does n't matter about , you know , this is mother , this is father . |
| 11 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 12 | It 'll have a special winter flavour and feature Amos Chatfield as he talks about Christmases past and his boyhood encounter with the ghost of Stanmer Woods . |
| 13 | So if we want to find out , and twenty five over a hundred , we 've got the s , it 's a special fraction , and it used to have a special name for it , and we call these percentages , twenty five per hundred , twenty five hundredths , we just say twenty five per cent . |