Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have a certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's an attractive vision , up to a point , and it has a certain reality . |
| 2 | Esther was no beauty , but she had a certain handsomeness about her , a particular wickedness he had not seen in other women . |
| 3 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 4 | They 're not nice people in a way , but they have a certain dignity about them . |
| 5 | They 're not nice people in a way , but they have a certain dignity about them . |
| 6 | A ridiculous word in itself , but it had a certain swing about it . |
| 7 | But it has a certain logic . |
| 8 | And er , so it 's , it 's an attempt to work backwards , but it has a certain justification in analytic technique . |