Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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1 | I mean , when I 've got over that then I 'll have time to be decently frightened of you . ’ |
2 | But here 's a toast to all those who played a part in this fall of a climbing journalist : my climbing friends , the helicopter rescue team , the doctors and nurses and our superb National Health Service ( coming from Ebbw Vale I knew one day I 'd have cause to be thankful to Aneurin Bevan ) . |
3 | From the sudden change in Rune Christensen 's demeanour it seemed she might have cause to be optimistic . |
4 | In my family you shall have reason to be merry . |
5 | If you survive the quicklime and urine , you will have chair to be proud of , that will give pleasure for years to come . |
6 | that 's half way to Tesco 's and they would have time to be there |
7 | [ Ch 14 ] It is with a more elaborate example of this type of fanciful similitude that the impersonal " Dickens " introduces Mrs Rouncewell : She is a fine old lady , handsome , stately , wonderfully neat , and has such a back , and such a stomacher that if her stays should turn out when she dies to have been a broad old-fashioned family fire-grate , nobody who knows her would have cause to be surprised . |