Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [pron] have [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Cos what 's , well what 's quite good is you do a week and then we 've got , it 's our half term so we 've got a week off .
2 ‘ Any developments ? or does that murder take a back seat now they 've got a new one to think about ? ’
3 An hour and a half later he has finished a rough plan and elevation .
4 Er , several entries will use up additional memory , as the minimum amount of memory they will get used erm , but certain entries do n't use any extra memory , and in fact , in this column here I 've put an entry , a whole number six , seven , eight , nine , ten etcetera , into each of these cells and er that column there , still only uses forty eight bytes of memory .
5 At the end of each six week period we have an assessment session whereby they have to do a ‘ performance ’ to everybody else in that year , so the music can see what the dance has done … etc .
6 ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’
7 It were a old fashioned kitchen range where you 'd got a an oven on one side and a boiler on the other .
8 There was the thicket where they 'd hunted , and the wood where they 'd killed a fox for eating nomes .
9 In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife .
10 So you know when you get in a meeting sometimes you 've got a point of view on an agenda item and you think how where am I gon na get support for for my point of view on the meeting ?
11 Cos all I 'd have to buy is a starter microphone then I 've got an instant dictaphone .
12 And there comes a point where you have to call an end or at least announce a limit to sacrifice .
13 The female ichneumon wasp has an ovipositor like a dagger with which she drills a hole in wood at the exact point where she has detected a beetle grub lying beneath .
14 It climbed vertically above the field , retracing its earlier journey , until it seemed to hang suspended at the precise point where it had rested a moment ago .
15 The spread of the Apple Macintosh within publishing to the point where it has become an industry standard .
16 The place where he had founded a small bank .
17 ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid .
18 On the place where she had stopped a round black patch of soot remained , undulating on the swell — an unclean mark of the creature 's rest …
19 An hour later she had ordered a taxi and Paige had waved her goodbye in some bemusement .
20 On the wall outside she had fixed a large notice which clearly indicated that here was the shop , and for someone to miss it they would need to be exceedingly short-sighted — or dozy .
21 and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong .
22 Maja Nagel rues the day when she had to leave a castle in the East for a cramped little studio in Berlin .
23 One day when he had sold a painting for a hundred francs , he spent it all on buying flowers for every woman who passed by in the street in a gesture that Modi much admired .
24 Well you can have a song in a minute when we 've had a prayer .
25 ‘ Mary , dear , one night when I have made a better meal than I did tonight , I plan to go a little berserk , too , in order to have your solace . ’
26 The following example of a telephone dialogue comes from a study carried out by Elena Lieven and myself , in which one child ( the hider ) was asked to explain to a friend where she had hidden an object in a room in which the friend was sitting .
27 her mum really she 's got a lot on , she 'll have a lot on cos she 's got to prepare for that wedding , you know what you 're like when you , you 've got
28 Now I work for a local authority so I 've got a big interest in this , but I 've also been involved as John will remember in a strike .
29 ‘ People go on about my goalscoring now and expect me to score in every game now I 've hit a purple patch .
30 All the same , when he had finished stubbing the cigarette out he had given a very shrewd and pertinent answer …
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