Example sentences of "have [verb] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They are particularly anxious to hear from a man they think may have witnessed one attack . |
2 | Yeah well if we do n't get it tomorrow we 'll have to go one night , it 's late night shopping till nine o'clock . |
3 | Erm I shall have to sit one afternoon and go through it all . |
4 | ‘ Because of all that 's happened , ’ she says , such a move would have to come one step at a time . |
5 | The indexing for their information system , however , remains largely the same as NACAB 's , with the result that the use of the two systems in parallel , one for enquiry classification and the other for information access , may have solved one shortcoming and raised another . |
6 | The same stack is excited at the beginning and end of the sequence and if the stator and rotor teeth are aligned in this stack the rotor must have moved one tooth pitch . |
7 | Oh well yes I should have done one word . |
8 | He 's had a lot of fuss made of him in Britain , but if he 'd have been an American , his win would probably have rated one line in their papers . ’ |
9 | ‘ But she told me she tried to be understanding of a life that perhaps she might have to lead one day , ’ said her friend . |
10 | He paused for a moment , then went on softly , ‘ Lord , Merrill , but you must have made one hell of an impact in just one evening for him to come all this way , presumably simply to see you . ’ |
11 | I noticed he was carrying something wrapped in a cloth and could only have used one hand for balance . |
12 | I 'll have look one day . |
13 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
14 | It does not even occur to the reader that the baby might have cried one year in Singapore and be picked up by its mother a year later in Aden . |
15 | It would only have needed one postponement at the school 's shale pitch to have wrecked Errol 's big opportunity ! |
16 | If he 'd tried to bottle it up he would have exploded one way or the other long before now . |
17 | They believe that , while a person may actually have performed one action , they could nevertheless have chosen to perform another , and devote part of their energy to specifying the sorts of conditions in which such choices are made . |
18 | It must have had one hell of an impact on you ! ’ |
19 | The Fed will also have had one eye on Japan — a working model to show what a collapse in asset values can do to banks . |
20 | I would have thought one sticker would be sufficient really . |
21 | BECAUSE , prior to this little jaunt , Mr Mellor would n't have sold one copy of any newspaper . |
22 | So , if you 'd been knitting , you would have knitted one way and slipped the other . |
23 | But skipper Neil Fairbrother 's top priority this season is the championship , and with Lancashire already in the Benson & Hedges Cup final , a successful Sunday League run could have proved one distraction too many . |
24 | In Berry 's case , English law did certainly provide for one level of appeal to the Court of Appeal and may have provided one level of appeal beyond that . |
25 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
26 | HAD Nigel Lawson toured the tea bars at the Blackpool Winter Gardens yesterday , he would have found one topic on everyone 's lips — increased interest rates . |
27 | In 1880 that person would have known one person in every 20 . |
28 | But Huxley said nothing about the process that might have led one branch of the primate order to develop the upright posture and the enlarged brain that are the hallmarks of the human race . |
29 | ‘ You 'll only have to stay one night . ’ |
30 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |