Example sentences of "have [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | If we were paying them a salary then of course it 's up to us whether we have them at sitting at home doing nothing , they would n't they 'd soon get bored with it . |
2 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
3 | When we say that a child enjoys the security of a familiar story structure , what tools have we for analysing that structure ? |
4 | What chance have we of topping the Order of Merit ? " |
5 | The case of the Tari Furora paralleled that of the Melanesians in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ , but it is to his ideal City , and his actual urban Western civilization that Eliot relates this Papuan discovery : ‘ … if we are so helpless in the hands of our ‘ civilization ’ that we admit our inability to prevent it from ruining Papuans , what hope have we of saving ourselves ? ’ |
6 | If our " helping hands " were in fact the embrace of a leper , " what hope have we of saving ourselves ? " |
7 | If we ca n't cross the Sea of Storms , a tenth of the distance , what chance have we of navigating that far ? ’ |
8 | What hope have we of assessing movements in population in the tenth , eleventh and twelfth centuries ? |