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

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1 Licensee Richard Salmon says : ‘ En suite is an absolute essential and business people expect to have a phone in the room .
2 People say having a baby ruins your life , and talk about what you could have done in a job and that .
3 I must choose my words with care as well that my clients and I think that there was very much an effect of people wanting to have a relief road , but also wanting to have it as far away from themselves a as they could have it .
4 Some people seemed to have a talent for saying the wrong thing , she thought to herself .
5 Also , the UK Customs people seem to have a penchant for opening packages with disks in , and whilst I 've never heard of anything going missing from such a package , they never seem to have grasped the idea that magnets and x-rays do n't mix well with floppy disks .
6 I think it is appalling , quite atrocious — some people seem to have a death wish . ’
7 Bob Hughes : ‘ Some people seem to have a death wish ’
8 Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really .
9 A lot of people drink but it 's unfortunate because I am famous and well known people try to have a dig at that side of it .
10 But then people do have a thing about first albums . ’
11 People do have a fascination with that , do n't they ?
12 I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards .
13 ‘ Oh yes , you people have to have a nothingth floor . ’
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