Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] a certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you Mr Chairman , I , I 've got a certain amount of experience in the subject because we got quite a big one in our village . |
| 2 | She was different herself , looking back on it : she 'd lost a certain naturalness , she did n't feel vivacious . |
| 3 | She 'd married a sporting celebrity , so she 'd expected a certain amount of attention , but she was n't sure she appreciated Ace 's rather smug pleasure at looking at himself . |
| 4 | ‘ I see you have noticed a certain peculiarity about my appearance . ’ |
| 5 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 6 | ‘ It seems to me , do correct me if I 'm wrong , but reading the weekly ‘ Jottings ’ one would say you 've had a certain amount of experience with women . ’ |
| 7 | Well because if , if we got , if we say you 've got a certain number of members of staff , and each full time equivalent offers you two hundred and twenty two point eight working days a year . |
| 8 | For example , if one has found out something about a course , about what 's happening on it , how well the pupils are learning , how interested they are in it and what different members of staff think of its value and so on , then you 've got a certain amount of evidence about it . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes I know , sir , but … ‘ … but you 've shown a certain amount of keenness this last week or two , so … |
| 10 | She had faced a certain amount of humiliation again at the hands of that wretched Marie , but the thing that stayed in her mind was the feel of Alain 's arms and the tang of his skin . |
| 11 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |
| 12 | She was much too busy darting glances at Alain and then at Jenna and it was not hard to see that she had detected a certain restraint in the atmosphere . |
| 13 | Freya 's friend Anita 's remark that Freya was anorexic because she had lost a certain amount of body weight is , I feel , misleading , and as Freya rightly points out , she knew herself , deep down , that something was wrong . |
| 14 | … And at times in retrospect you wish you had taken a certain stat , because it turns out that the whole thing has boiled up , completely beyond what you know it to be , but it 's become political and the authority is being attacked and the chiefs ca n't defend it and say , ‘ OK . |
| 15 | Well I thought you had to get a certain amount |
| 16 | You have , yeah , you have to wait at least you have wait a certain amount of years . |
| 17 | ‘ You have to give a certain deference to her age . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The whole cultural situation in Oxford is such that you have to have a certain degree of power or influence of money to be admitted to any social sphere , ’ he fumes . |
| 19 | For the survival of a society you have to have a certain number at one extreme and , therefore , a certain number at the other extreme , for without cowards there are no VCs . |
| 20 | When you have used a certain rod for any length of time you become accustomed to its ‘ feel ’ . |
| 21 | To the size absolutely , to the size of the audience so if we say a one to one we 've got a certain level of conversational power if you say so with a group like this it has to be |
| 22 | I also think we 've got a certain accessibility in our performance that people have n't really seen for a while : we 're willing to perform . ’ |
| 23 | You want , want to get the same amount , I mean we 've got a certain amount of water coming through that pipe , |
| 24 | Er secondly , land could be allocated to meet a range of needs in a variety of locations and after monitoring , if we had met a certain level of job targets , those jobs may be on a limited number of sites . |
| 25 | The letter continued : ’ The answers to your specific questions to the Minister , are , therefore , that we have seen a certain amount of information on the cost of the King 's Cross project ’ — we should like to know what that certain amount of information is — ’ and the projected revenues before giving consent to the deposit of the Bill . ’ |
| 26 | The class is generally resistant to change , but we have allowed a certain latitude in he deck gear on the boats and have tightened the rules when there was a danger of modifications which cause an increase in our insurance premiums . |
| 27 | Many of us secretly think we will love ourselves when we have resolved a certain problem , or when we are successful , or when we are less busy , or when we are older , or when we are in a loving relationship — but tomorrow never comes . |
| 28 | Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that . |
| 29 | You could always , you , you always used to say we could tell the German planes coming over er they 'd got a certain sound because they were so heavily ladened . |
| 30 | In the process they 've lost a certain edge , for at the end The Cateran had the rage and the fury of a band at its peak falling apart . |