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

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1 ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said .
2 A small trainer like me has a job to tick over , let alone make a living , but he always comes to the rescue .
3 One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings .
4 Each of them has a value and a part to play but they should serve us ; we should not be their slaves .
5 One of them has a fake beard .
6 For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name .
7 And these six can now be further reduced by asking which of them meets a number of desirable but not essential wants : Which of them has a garden ?
8 Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama .
9 That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ .
10 Each of them has a large leather money bag .
11 At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence .
12 Not one of them has a day 's experience of working in British industry .
13 If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other .
14 They have been encouraged to be suspicious of whatever may be ‘ unsound ’ ( a favourite Oxbridge concept ) ; they owe a sentimental and intellectual allegiance to the same few places ; barely one of them has a ‘ regional ’ accent .
15 None of them has a sore throat .
16 That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it .
17 Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them .
18 As an extra incentive to put money on the gas giants as havens of life we can note that each of them has an atmospheric layer where there is plenty of warm but polluted water .
19 These questions must be addressed , even if they can not be precisely answered ; simply raising them has an effect on the way old people are viewed and the action which it is deemed appropriate to take .
20 For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied .
21 That cargo plane of yours has a range of three thousand , six hundred sea miles .
22 David , David has a dentist app I think his has a dentist appointment .
23 Another said , ‘ I 'd a thought you 'd had enough of that by now ! ’
24 But I 'd disappeared because I 'd a man shouting ‘ fruit and vegetables ’ ( in those days , you had to have your name and address on your cart ) .
25 ‘ Dirt 's the same the world over I 'd a thought . ’
26 " If it 's all the same to you , darling , I 'd a whole lot rather it did n't hurt . "
27 I must have knocked it or something and I 'd a couple of shots left and I ought to have shot the swine but I could n't , not while he was sitting there killing himself laughing .
28 M my my view of that was that 's the one I 'd a question mark against
29 And I 'd a breath of fresh air .
30 I 'd a terrible urge to shout , Fuck-all 's well up this turret , mate !
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