Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five months later I have a friend and companion who will never be sold or replaced ; a friend who knows more about Clare than anyone else . |
| 2 | Then little invisible tadpole things in the pee swam through the bathwater up the woman 's bottom and laid eggs , and six months later she had a baby . |
| 3 | A few months ago they had a row , and Steve stormed off and went nightclubbing in London for the weekend . |
| 4 | I had a very gory accident with a shopping trolley , but the gash in my leg has healed beautifully , and about two months ago I had a cataract removed ( local anaesthetic : all the rage these days and an absolute doddle ) . |
| 5 | A few months ago I had the privilege of visiting the brand new Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York City . |
| 6 | And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing . |
| 7 | A few days later he had a letter from a listener asking him why he 'd told them that his gas bill was arriving the following day . |
| 8 | A few days later I had a visit from her . |
| 9 | Nine days later she had a laparotomy with a view to performing a portosystemic shunt . |
| 10 | Another friend said she would keep an eye on her , but four weeks later we had a phone call from her saying that Shamrock was desperately ill . |
| 11 | A few weeks later I had a letter from them , saying another man had visited them with a barn owl , but it was n't as good as Dawn . |
| 12 | In August 1910 she suffered a heart attack , and two years later she had a stroke which left her a paralysed cripple . |
| 13 | ‘ Two weeks ago we had a couple of so-called businessmen in the club , with their minder and the Roller parked down below . |
| 14 | Where I come from , erm most of the the the fish , the fishing part of the community , up until just two , three years ago we had a tradition of women 's working practices which were handed down for hundreds of years from the female side . |
| 15 | Well I would say it 's , yes , better , cos mean with th with th these erm containers you see now I mean , we had about say ten years ago we had a man here he used to deal with the all general cargo , all loose cargo from Beirut and all the Mediterranean ports but course now you got the trouble there now that 's a , that 's a cargo that 's , what 's fell away . |
| 16 | A couple of years ago we had a visit from a 91-year old lady who had left Uddingston in 1920 to emigrate to America — the tears flowed down her cheeks as she reminisced about playing here as a child . ’ |
| 17 | What about the Halal meat , in this county where three years ago we had a meeting and they decided that animals that were slaughtered without being stunned with sheer terror , who are allowed to bleed to death because this is what a particular group believed in and we did it . |
| 18 | I can remember at Westfield school about fifteen years ago we had an art teacher , who got the children to make an enormous thing , I think it was a Loch Ness Monster , and it went out of , out of the door of one room into another , you know , and they spent days and ages on making this thing |
| 19 | 3 years ago she had a recurrence of symptoms . |
| 20 | Ten years ago she had a hernia operation . |
| 21 | It is all so silly , and I would n't take him so seriously if it was n't for the fact that five years ago he had an affair and , yes , she had long hair . |
| 22 | You know I years ago I had a twig you know , an ordinary twig , I stuck it into the ground after three long years , all that was was a stick ! |
| 23 | Years ago I had a class of very bright children and they did some really good projects , they were n't silly projects where they just scribble a bit an and draw some rubbish the they really worked and I saw to it that they produced really good work |
| 24 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
| 26 | 20 minutes later they had the chance to strretch the lead . |
| 27 | He had , however , an appointment to keep , and a few minutes later I had the table to myself . |
| 28 | I came to understand fully about making biscuits and if you make things right you have a chance of selling them — as the Japanese have amply demonstrated . |
| 29 | Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake . |
| 30 | As scientists and non-scientists alike you have a duty to find out what your elected representative thinks of the British attitude to the present Soviet proposals . |