Example sentences of "[pers pn] have in " in BNC.

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1 I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television .
2 I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television .
3 He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind .
4 Of the stories I have in mind , Othello and Desdemona , Samson and Delilah , Dido and Aeneas , only the third is spoken of , and it is spoken of oracularly .
5 I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved .
6 What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera .
7 I have in mind the experience of being suddenly thrust outside time , which constitutes in The Idiot and elsewhere the epileptic aura .
8 The other model I have in mind is the degree in music , which is intensive , technical , and demanding , and attracts a small number of well-qualified entrants .
9 I have in mind How To Read , a disastrously misnamed little treatise , since its real subject is How to Write , and it is addressed to what Pound called ( with the engagingly dated Edwardian elegance that he never wholly shed ) ‘ the neophyte ’ — that is to say , to the young American writer who wants to know as soon as possible , though at the expense of considerable exertion which he is prepared for , how to assemble his kit of tools for the job in hand and others that he can dimly foresee .
10 I have in my memory a feeling that we had satisfied ourselves that international law would be obeyed . ’
11 I have in mind two especially : the first involves what might be called the impossibility of desire , the second the notion of desire and/or identity as involving an ineluctable splitting .
12 ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all .
13 Though ‘ the diagram I have in view ’ includes particular details , ‘ there is not the least mention made of them in the proof of the proposition . ’
14 I have in my hand a wonderful book called Children 's Letters to God .
15 The man I have in mind is Oscar Romero , who was assassinated the year Robert Runcie was enthroned as Archbishop — 1980 .
16 Indeed , I have in the past done so , filing pages of foolscap paper with words spangled as wildflower , natural and sweet .
17 And he said , ‘ I have in my mind a million notes , and every one which is not perfect makes me mad . ’
18 The behaviourists ' answer would be that I have in the past been reinforced by coffee when I have gone to C , but not when I have gone to B. This could well be correct .
19 I have in mind the fact that it was not seriously disputed , at any stage during the election , that eight out of 10 families would gain as a result of Labour 's tax and spending proposals ; and yet a number of people who would undoubtedly be beneficiaries of what we were proposing appear not to have recognised that . ’
20 I have in mind the boorishness of the odd voice which told Viv Richards just how black he was .
21 What he told me before , I have in my heart , I am tired of fighting .
22 An instance of the kind of fluidity I have in mind occurred for one boy who was in role as a ‘ robot controller ’ .
23 I have in fairness to say that there is no hard evidence for this ; but it seems possible that if such a case of misidentification had occurred , it would not readily be admitted .
24 I have in the past been accustomed to addressing under-servants by their Christian names and saw no reason to do otherwise in this house . ’
25 I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport .
26 Then the Cid assembled together the Christians in the Alcazar , and when they were assembled , he rose upon his feet and said , Friends and kinsmen and vassals , praised be God and holy Mary Mother , all the good which I have in the world I have here in Valencia ; with hard labour I won the city , and hold it for my heritage , and for nothing less than death will I leave it .
27 While most objections are to serious thinking what veneer is to seasoned wood , some — I have in mind objections that some feminists bring against the idea of animal rights in particular and the notion of rights in general — deserve a serious hearing and patient exploration .
28 The animal welfarist 's position , like the deep ecologist 's , is committed to permitting the sacrifice of some individuals for the greater good , and even the deep ecologists , notwithstanding their glorification of sport hunting ( I have in mind such legendary figures as Aldo Leopold , Ortega y Gasset and the poet Gary Snyder ) , might agree that more humane forms of hunting and trapping are preferable to more barbaric ones .
29 Here are some concrete examples of what I have in mind .
30 I have in mind that point beyond which parents are no longer flexible , do n't allow their children a certain amount of leeway , are not prepared to overlook or make light of mistakes or misdemeanours .
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