Example sentences of "having a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Elton probably would n't mind exchanging his sparkling shorts to suffer Adams ' lumberjack shirts if it meant having a song at number one for 16 weeks like the Canadian rocker did |
| 2 | Legs flesh , bill red , drake usually having a knob in summer ; sexes otherwise alike . |
| 3 | ‘ Having a session with Chief Inspector Salter . |
| 4 | having a session with an organ builder right ? |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Butcher 's having a session at the moment . ’ |
| 6 | The majority of the settlers were Protestant but the Calvert family influence , sometimes reinforced by having a member of the family go to Maryland as governor , was quite sufficient to protect the interests of the Catholic minority and secure religious toleration in normal times . |
| 7 | Juliet could n't help gazing at his eyelashes , so long and curling , and wondered what it would be like having a date with David Kent . |
| 8 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 9 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 10 | An elegant example of this is La Bourgoise d'Orliens , " The townswoman of Orléans " , in which the husband , a merchant , suspecting his wife of having a clerk as a lover ( which she has ) tests her by pretending to go away but returning in the guise of a clerk . |
| 11 | But , of course , having a system of beliefs or attitudes also conditions the way we look at the world ; what we actually see . |
| 12 | Observing behaviour is greatly aided by having a system of some kind to follow . |
| 13 | In the following discussion , we shall be making use of Hart 's ( 1969 ) distinction between the general justifications ( or ‘ general justifying aims ’ ) put forward for having a system of punishment , and the principles of distribution which it is claimed should determine how severe the punishment of individual offenders should be . |
| 14 | This in turn means that , while general deterrence might well form the basis of a plausible general justification for having a system of punishment , it is more difficult to argue that the amount of punishment imposed by our system is justifiable by deterrent considerations . |
| 15 | The general justification for having a system of punishment must therefore be forward-looking and primarily reductivist : based on the claim that punishment does something to reduce the incidence of crime , and thereby prevents the diminution of some other people 's positive freedom . |
| 16 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 17 | Because of the way that the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years to a system where mixed ability is introduced year by year from the first to third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school , one lot of pupils in their streamed classes and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes , and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and the mixed ability classes . |
| 18 | To have to submit to having a part of one 's body removed while one slept was going to be bad . |
| 19 | If he ca n't , Angelica 's thinking , it 's probably going to mean the expense of having a part of the terrace decking taken up and relaid . |
| 20 | Something in me recoiled from the idea of having a part of myself torn away by force , even if it did n't hurt . |
| 21 | We were therefore very fortunate in having a part in the years following Alec Clegg 's appointment as Chief Education Officer . |
| 22 | Among the peoples of the north the Yakuts were unique in having a way of life based upon cattle and horses which , like their Turkic language , betrayed their origins in the steppes of Mongolia . |
| 23 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think he 's on this wavelength , ’ she said , ‘ I had thought of having a holiday in one of the Martello towers if I do n't see him soon . ’ |
| 25 | Breeze , hoping to please her , gave a lemonade and sandwich party one evening , to which she invited Roger , Tony , the two younger Blessington-Dalrymples , and that live wire , Mr Dare , who was working much too hard now that his Hungarian wife was having a holiday in her native land . |
| 26 | Other offences included not having a bar of soap on a wash basin and no ‘ Now Wash Your Hands ’ sign on the wall and having a cracked marble worktop . |
| 27 | It was very late — after closing time , about 3am , and they came right out with it : ‘ How would you fancy having a quarter of a million quid ? ’ |
| 28 | We could go about having a quarter of an hour batting |
| 29 | ‘ Apparently he was having a race round the deck with one of his friends and managed to slip and fall down the stairs . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm having a shower before breakfast , ’ Steve called out to her , and with a sigh of relief Ruth sank to a kitchen chair to wait for the kettle to boil . |