Example sentences of "i have the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 2 | Oh Richard , James , James said can I have the hairbrush out . |
| 3 | Can I have the dish out , the carving dish , out of the cupboard |
| 4 | Can I have the marge ? |
| 5 | Can I have the pen there please ? |
| 6 | Erm can I have the proposal that that was a correct record of our deliberations please ? |
| 7 | So why ca n't I have the money ? |
| 8 | I want , I want the gravy , can I have the gravy ? |
| 9 | Nor did I have the inclination , she added silently . |
| 10 | Yet can not I have the patience to look upon your wickedness with such a … |
| 11 | So I said to er your mum one night oh I said can I have the stool back ? |
| 12 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 13 | If you said please may I have the marmalade it might arrive . |
| 14 | say please may I have the marmalade . |
| 15 | Can I have the spoon please ? |
| 16 | Can I have the spoon ? |
| 17 | Peter Gaskell placed a half sheet of exercise-book paper on the counter and said , ‘ Can I have the order , please ? |
| 18 | Can I have the wine ? |
| 19 | ‘ Mum , when we get home , can I have the box ? ’ |
| 20 | When would I have the time the way things are and you on your back ? ’ |
| 21 | Nor do I have the time to go looking for a suitable crew . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Can I have the aircrew mess ? ’ she whispered , stiff-lipped . |
| 23 | Badly born , poorly educated as I am , how do I have the nerve to pass comment on the society I live in — let alone marry a professor of economics and co-author with him — the publisher 's term , not mine — a book on Darcian Monetarism ? |
| 24 | But the Oscar for the Most Unusual Drawing Show of the Month goes — may I have the envelope please ? — to Pace , uptown , for ‘ Directors ’ Drawings ’ , starring works on paper ( and on story-boards ) by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock , Martin Scorsese , Satajit Ray , Federico Fellini , Sergei Eisenstein , John Houston , Orson Welles , David Lynch and Terry Gilliam ( among others ) . |
| 25 | Why did n't I have the courage to release him ? |
| 26 | Mum , can I have the telly on ? |
| 27 | ‘ Why do I have the feeling that there 's more to it than that ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Why do I have the feeling I 've passed some kind of test ? ’ |
| 29 | Can I have the cup now ? |
| 30 | Dad can I have the margarine ? |