Example sentences of "have a [det] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
| 2 | The team has a few ifs and buts about it . |
| 3 | It has a few houses and shops , even a post office . |
| 4 | He has a few swigs and then . |
| 5 | ‘ Les has had a few problems but he could do very well alongside Deanesy . ’ |
| 6 | Now you have had a few crackles but they 've been fairly easily sorted out . |
| 7 | She wanted it too , and maybe when she and Charlie were married and in bed and they 'd had a few drinks and she was wearing a black nightie , then maybe it would n't be so bad . |
| 8 | Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around . |
| 9 | I 've been out on the on the streets and the roads and we 've had a few beers and I 've not seen any trouble but the first I 've heard of trouble was was this morning after breakfast in a nearby hotel and and by by the trouble that 's been caused I do n't know the details of it but I believe it 's been quite intense really . |
| 10 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |
| 11 | ‘ So we do have a few residents that still come and go as they please . |
| 12 | ‘ Can I … you know , can I have a few minutes before we go ? , |
| 13 | I 'll be able to model your gown ; it 's right at the end of the show , so I 'll have a few minutes after I 've finished Roman 's clothes . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd like to see him have a few failures and see how he handles that . ’ |
| 15 | Well they said what you having for tea and I said well we 'll have to have you can have a few beans or something |
| 16 | Young Jack thought he was hard , thought that having a few blondes and getting a few legs broken made you a man , but underneath it all he was soft , a little boy . |
| 17 | And instead of having a few puffs and , and saving and throwing two dog ends away you did n't see that , they 'd just break it in half and have half each . |
| 18 | In no time at all I was conducting the band , having a few drinks and thoroughly enjoying myself . |
| 19 | ‘ Aah 've a few bits and pieces ti buy , but after that there 's nowt much in my line 'ere . ’ |
| 20 | They each had a few jokes and by the time the roach was flushed away she was already experiencing her first rush , a warm , dreamy sensation that seemed to encompass her whole being . |
| 21 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 22 | He 's they 've opened an account with us and had a few bits and baps off us , so |
| 23 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 24 | So that we had a few tiles that we knew what their pattern and date was . |
| 25 | Erm , he worked , he was their sort of erm they had a few clubs and pubs in this area at the time and er |
| 26 | I had a few problems when I was about thirty and my doctor told me it was just my age and the menopause ! |
| 27 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 28 | Gradually Swindon started to move forward … they had a few corners but never really threatened . |
| 29 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 30 | If it was , I reckoned I had a few minutes while he walked back there . |