Example sentences of "have [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Ting , who has won one Nobel prize ( for a particle he named after himself ) and would dearly like to win another , has something of a reputation . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State has something of a reputation for being the Lord Whitelaw of the Government . |
| 3 | Occasionally , a ‘ sustained ’ note has something like a rhythm vibrato ( in triplet rhythm ) : listen for instance to ‘ Although ’ at the start of the second and last choruses , ‘ Now ’ at the start of the third , and ‘ Well ’ at the start of the fourth . |
| 4 | The alternative version has it as a description of the style of the painting ( and it makes no difference here whether the recumbent posture belongs to the living sitter or to the image in the finished picture ) . |
| 5 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
| 6 | In 87 ( ‘ Farewell — Thou art too dear for my possessing ’ ) the Friend 's inconstancy and betrayal are excused as a simple error of judgement : Here , though , Shakespeare is not content to let the irony stand , for the couplet , with its sarcastic double-rhyme , dispels both illusion and self-deception : ‘ Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter — /In sleep a king , but waking no such matter . ’ |
| 7 | However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores . |
| 8 | They should have had them in a box . ’ |
| 9 | The trouble was that imprinted in Edward 's own mind was a charming array of creatures like a Noah 's Ark procession , from ant to man , that sprang from the illustration in a fatally misconceived nature book he had had himself as a child . |
| 10 | We have n't had one for a couple have we ? |
| 11 | Former Neighbours star Rachel Friend seems to have had everything on a plate . |
| 12 | ‘ She 's had something of a relapse . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I told you you should have had him on a lead , ’ said Philip . |
| 14 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 15 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 16 | the same a as what Ann had for theirs I mean we 've had it for a year and paid all that rent . |
| 17 | and erm she 's had it for a couple of days but we thought she was getting over it this morning . |
| 18 | ‘ She 's just noticed she 's not had it for a week or so . ’ |
| 19 | He 's had it for a week . |
| 20 | I 've had it for a week . |
| 21 | Mm no he 's had it over a period of time , we think it may be hereditary cos his father had some back trouble too when he was alive |
| 22 | How that er , shortfall is to be met , erm , when this er , paper was written er , the knowledge that the Health Authority have had somewhat of a windfall recently , erm , er , which er , is , is , er , under development discussion at the moment . |
| 23 | Could I have them as a friend/enemy ? ’ |
| 24 | What you want is to be able to answer a few sensible questions uniquely identifying you , the trouble is there 's probably a repertoire of only ten of those questions , you 're going to get asked three or four of them , but those questions , your date of birth , your telephone number , the er address of your bank and so on and so forth , if you 're a private detective you can get those , you can have them on a sheet of paper and you can pretend to be whoever you like . |
| 25 | you could have them on a lead could n't you ? |
| 26 | Sometimes you could only have them for a day or two before passing them on . |
| 27 | I , I says , I 'll let you know sometime today or tomorrow and er anyway , he was expecting me to say at least two or three or four weeks you know er because I 'd put the situation I had no tools , no nothing and erm I er had a look at it and I thought what I could do , and I says I can let you have them in a week . |
| 28 | He says , I can , I can let you have them in a week . |
| 29 | If you decide to keep your name and address records in Ami Pro ( an attractive option if you do not already have them in a database such as dBase or a spreadsheet such as 1-2-3 ) then it provides an easy to use record keeping system . |
| 30 | Eight of the nine full-time stations would have them within a year , the exception being Bishop Auckland . |