Example sentences of "have [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's up to the managers but I agree with Stansted four times a day , I think we 're losing a lot of traffic because we have nothing between seven in the morning and three o'clock in the afternoon |
| 2 | Where that girl is concerned I have nothing on my conscience . |
| 3 | What is … surprising and disquieting is the fact that those who might be expected ex officio have a profound and permanent appreciation of literature may in reality have nothing of the sort . |
| 4 | It is , of course , a good thing that Extreme dislike war and racism , print addresses for Greenpeace and Amnesty on the sleeve and so forth , but they have nothing of interest to say on the topics ( Nuno wishes that ‘ we were all colourblind , so we could live together peacefully ’ , which is bad news for traffic light designers ) and blow up their tiny philosophical points and questions to elephant size , but in the end , orchestras , big productions and songs in three parts can not disguise lame tunes and lack of anything to say . |
| 5 | Technically , his war poems show the influence of those of Wilfred Owen [ q.v. ] , but their language is simpler , more direct , and they have nothing of his indignation . |
| 6 | I was arguing that gay people have nothing to be ashamed of and yet my troops remained invisible as though they needed convincing too . |
| 7 | The clues lie , probably , in an informality of style ; in signs — at least — that someone has thought about the environment of the office ; evidence of a lot of the agency 's work around the place ( if they have nothing to be proud of ; they can not be much use ) ; an approach which is clearly geared to the idea of selling . |
| 8 | ‘ We have nothing to be ashamed of , ’ he stated , clinical in his delivery . |
| 9 | The Government have nothing to be proud of over that period . |
| 10 | that both Gethwyn and Russell sorted out er who up on on those extremes that you get in a group that , that maybe feel they re that they really have nothing to , hardly anything to do with us they 've do n't receive ministry and why should that be , and after be asked each year , has to go up ? |
| 11 | Do n't assume you have nothing worth stealing . |
| 12 | I 'm Catherine Gray , I have nothing worth taking , there 's only a couple of pounds in my purse if that 's what you 're after . |
| 13 | They have nothing at all to eat . |
| 14 | Their activities have nothing at all to do with sport and everything to do with telephone-number betting . |
| 15 | So many of the problems that we have to solve just have nothing at all to do with real life . |
| 16 | Erm , I have nothing at all through me , erm , no action 's come and er no information really , there is this change of co-ordinates up erm |
| 17 | But I have nothing at all to complain about . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Ruby , I have nothing at all of his . |
| 19 | so I gave that and there was nothing , this year the citizens have nothing at their |
| 20 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 21 | Perhaps perversely I have nothing but admiration for the high-wire acrobatics of Mady Mesplé in ‘ Diapiacer mi balza il cor ’ from Magpie , but then , I 've never heard a complete version of this opera , ‘ authentic ’ or otherwise . |
| 22 | I have know skilled fishkeepers have nothing but problems with them . |
| 23 | You have nothing but the silliest of complaints against him . |
| 24 | Another member of the panel added , ‘ We have nothing but admiration for the way you tackled those thugs , Doctor . |
| 25 | By now they are well acquainted with the area and its people and have nothing but good to say about both . |
| 26 | On the whole I have nothing but admiration for the Royal Concertgebouw 's playing , and they certainly outclass their American colleagues . |
| 27 | We in France have nothing but bread and wine and gaiety . |
| 28 | ‘ So we have nothing but Madame Lavender 's word that the article is missing ? ’ |
| 29 | You , lady , have nothing but iced water . ’ |
| 30 | He joins a general strike by those who have been dispossessed on Urras and tells them : ‘ ( on Anarres ) we have nothing but our freedom . |