Example sentences of "have [pron] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We have n't had one for a couple have we ? |
| 3 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 4 | the same a as what Ann had for theirs I mean we 've had it for a year and paid all that rent . |
| 5 | and erm she 's had it for a couple of days but we thought she was getting over it this morning . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's just noticed she 's not had it for a week or so . ’ |
| 7 | He 's had it for a week . |
| 8 | I 've had it for a week . |
| 9 | Sometimes you could only have them for a day or two before passing them on . |
| 10 | I 've got to get out as soon as I get , I 've , I 've promised at night I 'd have , I 'll , I 'll have someone for a night , I 've got to have someone at night as well as the day |
| 11 | They looked at each other and gave a shrug of their shoulders , then the big man said to Morris : ‘ Your son is a lucky man , having you for a father . |
| 12 | Can I have her for a minute ? |
| 13 | Can I have her for a minute ? |
| 14 | and we were saying last year we could of done with having him for a bit |
| 15 | ‘ Having him for a brother-in-law must have been embarrassing at times . ’ |
| 16 | four hundred and thirty quid , he said bloody hell , so what I said to him is , I know you 're gon na need a car , what I 'll do is er , I 'll get to work , I 'll put it , I 'll bring the car , you bring the car in beginning of the month , next month , right , said I wo n't be able to guarantee that I 'll get it done in a week cos I 've got other work booked in , but I 'll have it in here which means I 'll be able to do work to your car , right , and it 's better me being able to do that , then it , it 's sitting out outside your house and nobody touching it for a couple of weeks , now , I might have it for a couple of weeks , see and I 'll be able to do it in my own leisurely time then |
| 17 | When I was fifteen we rented a rough shoot of about a thousand acres on Stowe Hill , part of the Stanage estate ; Guy Rogers let us have it for a fiver . |
| 18 | but , so I said oh I 'll have it for a month and then I 'll tell you then whether |
| 19 | So she 'd have it for a week . |
| 20 | ‘ You shall have it for a bride gift . ’ |
| 21 | I think it , you 've got to have one for a change . |
| 22 | Conversations such as this can help children see the point : Penny : " I love giraffes — I love stroking them on my lap — I 'd love to have one for a pet . " |
| 23 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 24 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 25 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 26 | Cos I had it for a month , cos I did n't know whether I was gon na like it , I 'd never been on one before and er I 'd heard Judith say that you could feel claustrophobic , you know , with it over you |
| 27 | go in a hall somewhere and have it for a day . |