Example sentences of "have a [adj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work . |
| 2 | You 'll have a good one there . |
| 3 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , it probably did n't have a pink one either . |
| 5 | yeah but they might have a little one here , . |
| 6 | He 'll have a sweet one then if you 've got a sweet one |
| 7 | That 's why you meet so many people at parties who are falling over themselves to recommend their accountant , dentist , gardener or solicitor , as if having a good one automatically bestowed a halo of good judgement on the one who found him first . |
| 8 | Trestles make it all so much easier and safer , and it is worth while having a second one so that everyone can relax for a few minutes if it is proving difficult to align both wings to get the main pins in place . |
| 9 | at the minute because we 're going to be having a new one here anyway . |
| 10 | it wo n't , you know if it wo n't cos we 'd have to have a new one then would n't we ? |
| 11 | She had a new one virtually every day . |
| 12 | You seem to specialise in these narrow victories ; you went away in the last round , up to Greenwich and also had a narrow one there . |
| 13 | And she says they you know what I mean , they had a great they really had a good laugh . |
| 14 | I 'm sure I had a pink one somewhere . |