Example sentences of "have have [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | And what the manifesto is , is trying to do is to er set an agenda for about how the lot of private homes can be improved , and er fixing rent is one thing which the government er traditionally has had a responsibility for and which needs , er must be linked in with conditions because what we have at the moment is a situation where you get , in Oxford , a er a family living in one room being charged er over two hundred pounds a week by an individual landlord , and that 's clearly unacceptable . |
2 | Steve Gilbert has had a beard for 20 years and says he ca n't imagine life without it . |
3 | STUART PEARCE , Nottingham Forest 's England left back and skipper , has had a demand for a new contract thrown out by Brian Clough . |
4 | Erm but if somebody has had a gap for whatever reason , it is often the only method of actually covering it if you want to do something that involves the teachers ' superannuation scheme . |
5 | He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver . |
6 | ‘ From the very beginning , the Hong Kong governor has had no sincerity for resolving differences through talks , ’ he said . |
7 | Lu Ping : ‘ Chris Patten has had no sincerity for resolving differences ’ |
8 | Her sister Harriet has had the cottage for two years . |
9 | We all know textiles has had the grind for years and years and years and all our activity , all our activists , the shop stewards and the branch secretaries and conveners in that particular section , they need a lot of support , especially the young people . |
10 | That kind of hurt because we 'd had a relationship for nine years . |
11 | one and we 'd had a chat for a long , long time and I said to him afterwards , I was able to understand everything he said ! |
12 | Emily felt a flash of irritation , she had insisted that the shoemaker 's daughter take the boots away to be soled and heeled and at the same time she 'd had a fitting for some new slippers . |
13 | Yes , when I came to think of it , he 'd had a cough for some time . |
14 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
15 | ‘ They take young grandpas , ’ said Linda , amazed and overjoyed he 'd had the idea for himself and still not able to get over her daughter 's news . |
16 | They 'd had the stuff for a couple of years in the store and we were going to meet them there , at number twenty five Lilac Avenue , New Brighton . |
17 | And told to turn up the next morning , waited another four hours , finally a patient who 'd had an operation for a serious gall bladder operation two days before hand was kicked out of his bed and sent home so that she would be put in the bed , given the operation ! |
18 | As Engels puts it , despite having had a product for nearly two years , Cognos is still at the ‘ toe in the water ’ stage with the AS/400 market . |
19 | The evacuees were famished when they arrived , having had no food for a matter of 12 hours . |
20 | I am making good progress — slow but sure — and have now graduated on to walking sticks , although I feel very wobbly on these having had the crutches for a month . |
21 | The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive . |
22 | But then she would have had no time for taking walks . |
23 | He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’ |
24 | ‘ It occurred to me , ’ Sybil continued as she waved Melissa to a chair , ‘ that … that person might have had a motive for killing Angy . ’ |
25 | Edward was clearly , and not surprisingly , of considerable interest in Normandy at this date , and William of Jumièges would have had a motive for inventing Robert 's expedition against England , to increase Edward 's debt to the Normans in general and William 's father in particular . |
26 | Yet when he came to write the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos in Madam How and Lady Why ( 1869 ) , he could not dismiss from his mind the notion that , underlying the scientific explanation of how these disasters occurred , God must have had a reason for permitting them . |
27 | I think people who go to prison must have had a reason for whatever they did . |
28 | ‘ This man Riddle must have had a taste for nuts and raisins ; he seems to have eaten quite a few within a couple of hours before his death . ’ |
29 | I expect when he was a little boy he 'd rather have had a Bible for his birthday than anything else in the world , even a bicycle . |
30 | Like the Rattries , she supposed , who would never have had the money for a marriage licence or to put in the vicar 's collecting plate . |