Example sentences of "you have [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's hard tae fight if ye have only one leg . ’
2 Why have you had so many jobs in the last few years ?
3 Do you have as much influence as them ?
4 " Why , as a matter of interest , " said Martin , calmly , as though the discussion up to this point had been quite unreliable , " did you have so many children , Candida ? " and Mrs Denham , strangely , took off her glasses , and frowned , and began to speak as though she had indeed up to this point been talking nonsense .
5 How could you have so many varieties of peanut butter .
6 ‘ Do you have so little self-confidence ? ’
7 ‘ And the house is big enough for you to have as many friends as you want to visit you .
8 Two policemen , you 've even less chance , but three …
9 You 've just wee weed in this paddy .
10 You 've as much chance of making sense of events this week as you have of learning how to set the timer on your video recorder !
11 Now that Windows has proved to the world that massive files are OK ( yah ! ) you 've as much chance of being able to save a decent sized word-processed document onto a 1.44MB floppy as Madonna has of becoming a nun .
12 ‘ For heaven 's sake , ’ cried Babs , ‘ you 've as much right to be here as we have . ’
13 You 've too much softness in you . ’
14 And even if you tore the guarantee up and threw it away erm a you 've still statutory rights , anyway , given to you under the Sale of Goods Act .
15 Do you know I calculate , I went on to him other night and I says you 've only nine week
16 Alas , US Gold have retained this irritating quirk , and you 've only three credits to play with ( I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out , but it got jammed between the keys ) .
17 When he told his wife she said , ‘ ’ Right love , you can have anything you want for your tea — anything , you 've only three days to live , what do you fancy ? ' ’
18 You had just enough time to arrive and yet you chose not to do so . ’
19 Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that .
20 Other at other times you would have er hand riveters where you had maybe two riveters and a holder-on , and er a heater as they called , a rivet boy .
21 So if you want to use just one dryer for your hair , you will now have to use the curiously inefficient-sounding sèche-cheveu , as if you had only one hair to dry .
22 If you had only two bullets , who would you shoot among Saddam Hussein , Yasser Arafat or Paul Keating ?
23 Well while you had an apprenticeship you had about four years .
24 You finished about eight o'clock at night , you had about twelve hours so you 're working more or less except for the was n't very long . .
25 You had to be in at a certain time you know , you had very standard cuisine , it was , it had become if you like , ridiculed in jokes and things of this nature .
26 So you had very little chance to change any .
27 But erm er so I thought that was er so that was the only thing that I would actually pick up on there erm and the one thing I noticed this time , and you did n't , I mean this was n't the case when you did erm the role play this morning , but this time , and I do n't know whether it was because you had less confidence with what , with actual talking about the product , but you had very little eye contact with Maggie .
28 Well you had so many girl er names .
29 And then they had a points system which meant that er you had so many points and you could , there were certain foods that were just on points and er you could choose to spend your points on whatever you wanted .
30 And she was sorry you had so little belief .
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