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Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] have [art] " in BNC.

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1	Stop em and have the stuff on them .
2	Our young people deserve honesty from ourselves and have a right to it from the Church .
3	Some of us constantly tell stories where we depict ourselves as having the qualities we secretly think we lack or that others need reminding of .
4	Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it .
5	You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ .
6	Besides , he 'd just tell me that having a tower around was bad for business .
7	In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live .
8	Though he may say things to them that have no exact parallels in Scripture , his word does not contradict Scripture , neither does it have the same normative quality .
9	Cos I mean , I remember saying that , they , he knew somebody that had a catheter for two years !
10	He had not spoken to Miss Needham-Burrell himself and had no idea how old she was .
11	He was elegant in a long black close-fitting Indian coat ; and when he shook Mr Biswas by the hand Mr Biswas surrendered to his graciousness , at the same time noting with satisfaction that Pankaj Rai was as short as himself and had an equally ugly nose .
12	‘ Spielberg is a games fanatic himself and has a hands-on involvement to ensure the final result is as faithful as possible to his original idea .
13	I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar .
14	We see therefore that Boltzmann 's superposition integral is a special case of a more general functional relationship between stress and deformation gradient in which and has the special form in which the kernel function K1 contains t and only in the combination ( t — ) .
15	Gallie concludes that the relatively greater emphasis upon authoritarian and paternalistic practices within the French context is not solely a reflection of managerial attitudes engendered by the structural characteristics of industry , as typified by a long predominance of small , family firms in which the employer regarded himself as having a right to exclusive control .
16	Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it .
17	He sees himself as having an intuitive , feminine aspect .
18	A stack of OHP foils , on the other hand , can be run off on your laser printer for virtually nothing and have a number of significant advantages .
19	The Daily Telegraph carried a long story without mentioning my name , since Michael Berry was well disposed to me and had no wish to cause me embarrassment .
20	I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’
21	‘ At the moment she enjoys flying around the world after me and having a child would make that more difficult .
22	Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important .
23	So stay with me and have a go .
24	‘ You 're welcome to walk back home with Will and me and have a cup of tea for your trouble . ’
25	I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot
26	I am often asked to lead seminars on a topic which has been chosen for me and has a ti tie like ‘ coming to terms with our own mortality ’ .
27	You sit in it , washes yerself and has a little lean back . ’
28	Whilst Jack sat with them and had a beer and a photo taken , I wandered into the gloom of the shop and rather studiously examined some Portuguese washing-up bowls .
29	So we listened to them and had a laugh , , teeny weeny what 's it , polka dot bikini they 're quite funny here .
30	The Arab states , with the exception of Lebanon and possibly Egypt , might well have resettled the bulk of the refugees , had Israel accepted the principle of the right of return by receiving back about one-quarter of them and had the international community generously funded resettlement .