Example sentences of "to have a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here there was room to have a dig at ‘ trade unionists … too , screaming abuse and interfering with others on their way to work ’ , alleging that excitement on picket lines and at rock films amounted to the same thing : ‘ These are all manifestations of the primitive herd instinct . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The bass trombone can therefore be relied upon now to have a compass from E natural below the bass stave to B flat above the tenor stave . |
| 4 | the chorus , which ought to have a noise like a street drill ) . |
| 5 | The drum taps seek to restore the drum whose loss in modern drama is stated at the end of ‘ The Beating of a Drum ’ , while the striking suggestion that the choral passages ‘ to have a noise like a street drill ’ corresponds to Eliot 's praise of Le Sacre du Printemps for its uniting the noises of primitive and metropolitan life . |
| 6 | Most are useful and work well but I am not convinced of the value of a pictogram that shows the direction of airflow in the cabin , nor do I wish to have a reprimand from a stern-sounding lady if I do n't close the door properly . |
| 7 | We will take steps to ensure that individuals who need residential or nursing care continue to have a choice of homes , including independent homes . |
| 8 | It seemed sensible to have a choice of ways of generating electricity . |
| 9 | You know you used to have a choice of jobs but you do n't now . |
| 10 | This flexibility allows a typical student entering second year to have a choice of honours degree courses between Engineering disciplines or between Engineering and a science subject . |
| 11 | ‘ It is good for the passengers to have a choice of airlines and it is good for the airlines themselves to have to respond and innovate . |
| 12 | I had been able to have a couple of hours ' sleep here and there since the landings and , most important , I was able to move around more or less as I wanted to . |
| 13 | She was studying at the Royal College of Music when she moved into Coleherne Court with Diana , and then went on to become an opera singer , pausing only recently to have a couple of children . |
| 14 | During the past few years I have been fortunate enough to have a couple of RAF students each summer from the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham . |
| 15 | If you are inexperienced in using a silicone gun , it is a good idea to have a couple of trial squeezes of the trigger , in order to get the ‘ feel ’ of the pressure needed to achieve an even bead of silicone on the panel edges . |
| 16 | They had walked to the local pub , about half a mile into the estate , to have a couple of drinks with a handful of old acquaintances . |
| 17 | A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books . |
| 18 | you 'll have to have a couple of washers |
| 19 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 20 | It would be great to have a couple of little plastic bottles or cans of each flavour . ’ |
| 21 | And erm I they had to have a couple of I mean I think |
| 22 | I can re I can recall when you used to have a couple of weeks of er bad weather before Christmas , snow and that , and sometimes even Christmas s er snow on Christmas day |
| 23 | But er , we were not successful in putting up an er and er to have a member of Wales elected on this occasion to serve for the next seven years unfortunately ! |
| 24 | There were several plants which were significant to generations of Hebridean children who were brought up to have a knowledge of them . |
| 25 | It is therefore increasingly important for their teachers to have a knowledge of theories of language acquisition . |
| 26 | This was to last two years and to be focused on public law and , once more , the study and analysis of diplomatic documents : the pupils were also to have a knowledge of either English or German . |
| 27 | Significant developments are taking place in the use of software , such as WAIS and GOPHER , to enable users to search multiple catalogues of holdings thus avoiding the need for users to have a knowledge of where particular datasets might be held . |
| 28 | She appeared to have a crew of one , and he was reading a book . |
| 29 | Mare and foal 's got to have a field of grass . ’ |
| 30 | The advantage of systems such as Dbase 2 are that the user controls the number of fields available ( e.g. the school librarian may wish to have a field for the person who ordered the item and a teacher could have a list of all books or items ordered by him/herself or by the Geography department ) and the size of each field , which is limited by other programs . |