Example sentences of "have [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . )
2 The grave , on the contrary , has them in the minimal sense of its being merely an emphatic statement of someone 's duties towards it .
3 The Medau Society has them by the hundred — nay , by the thousand — and they have to be kept in order .
4 Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not
5 ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’
6 If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters .
7 Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent .
8 ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence .
9 A bailor has it against a mere bailee at pleasure even if he never himself had actual possession of the goods and only acquired title by virtue of an illegal but completely executed contract of sale .
10 Instead , Eubank clinically TKO 'd him in the ninth .
11 Some people have had them with a solid roof
12 I should have thought they might have had them in a separate house really but I suppose there wo n't be enough of them to begin with
13 Billy 's been brilliant because we 've had him on an album-by-album deal , and he could have jumped ship , but he 's been really loyal . ’
14 ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins .
15 We 've had it into the major research laboratories around the world who specialise in security .
16 He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ?
17 No , he 's had it for a long time .
18 Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier .
19 If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments .
20 You 've had it for a few years too .
21 Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years .
22 GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it .
23 She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place .
24 well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it !
25 They should all have them from a similar area because most of the time they say oh well they live so far away
26 Why ca n't we just have them in a loose-leaf binder with dividers in , and let the engineer decide how to hold documentation together ?
27 In a national park , 33 such species were found : one endemic ( Acacia koa , Leguminosae ) though six other indigenous species were pantropical coastal plants , but three others with such nectaries elsewhere in their range did not have them in the Hawaiian populations .
28 Byron would not have me in the larger house , claiming that the dogs would never tolerate my presence without howling all night .
29 Milgram varied the context of the experiment systematically , sometimes by allowing the ‘ teacher ’ to see the effects of the shocks on the ‘ learner ’ , sometimes having them in the same room , sometimes not having the learner scream in pain , and so on .
30 Er they would n't have you as a bound apprentice because unfortunately , although the wages were so low when you was being an apprentice , three and six a year , then six and six year , and then er I think , thirteen shilling , the third year .
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