Example sentences of "we have a [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ?
2 No 3224 Set by Margaret Rogers Can we have a lament in verse , or an epitaph for Punch , please ?
3 May we have a pause in the ministerial litany of self-praise and complacency to recognise the reality of the interest rate burden , the impact of stop-go , the abandonment of research and development , the neglect of training and education and the fact that , because of Government policy , the nightmare of bankruptcy and failure is faced daily by those who run small and medium-sized businesses in Wales ?
4 Can we have a diatribe in verse from Neil Kinnock against the Tory press , the short-sighted public , or anyone or anything else he might be against at the moment .
5 Shall we have a look in a different one ?
6 So can we have a decision in principle whether we 're going to do this or not ?
7 So should we have a phrase in this procedure ?
8 erm and , and the market is being badly hit as a result of this , now we 've a specialist in a certain type of business that leaves the market free for another syndicate and they 've now picked up all the juicy business
9 We were so poor we had a chicken in the oven for Christmas , and I opened the door to see how it was doing and the fellow from next door was dipping his bread in the gravy .
10 not been putting on any loud music recently I 've not had , I 'll stretch it out a little bit , but erm you know , we had a heater in here and er , record player and er ra er radio and that .
11 That would be totally wrong and totally undemocratic and heaven help us if we ended back in the situation where we had a lady in number ten Downing Street who waved the hand bag at all and sundry without any thought at all for the democratic situation
12 day we had a cat in our garden and er my dog is n't as big as a cat .
13 We had a punchcard in class the other day which would not catch on to the ‘ cogs ’ and allow itself to rotate .
14 Around this time , Spring 1944 , we had a re-shuffle in the Met Office .
15 We had a meting in my flat .
16 so erm , and that went on for , I suppose till the end of the war when er , when we had a reduction in hours again , we went back to the normal nine till half past five .
17 ( We thought we had a budgie in the office one day — whistles constantly ! ) .
18 We had a word in their ears and it was left to the hospital to deal with them , ’ said the police spokesman .
19 We took the view that we had a plan in place , a five year plan , and we did not want to be acquired . ’
20 Our barrack room was warm and we had a stove in the middle which kept us warm in the night .
21 We had a girl in here the other day with an exchange student from France , ’ said David 's wife Esther , ‘ She did n't know what mushy peas were so we gave her some and she hated them !
22 We had a blind in the bathroom , that was a U , er P V C one .
23 And we had about three boards in here and we had a board in there .
24 PP : Initially we had a prologue in which Peter Grimes 's father appeared on his death-bed , in which he solemnly cursed his son ; but it became apparent fairly soon that this was not a very good idea and the prologue was reshaped by the time we arrived back in England .
25 The local manager came down , the provincial manager , and er made the award or was present when the award was made by the T U C C , and er a presentation was , took place on the platform , and er my wife and I had a weekend , we er we er , we had a weekend in er in York .
26 We had a look in Salisbury 's but she did n't like any of them there .
27 He said that in 1975 we had a referendum in which it was suggested that it was an economic and trade rather than a political matter .
28 We had a slump in 1981 — long before anyone else — which was when our unemployment problem began .
29 We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen .
30 When we had a show in Basle , they asked questions in Parliament . ’
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