Example sentences of "have [art] [adj] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the way back I hoped they would still have the odd one to enable me to complete the suit and happily luck was with me . |
| 2 | be , she would get the same amount paid per week or you can have the increasing one where it would increase erm in line with inflation . |
| 3 | I prefer this , this is the like Dream Topping type stuff so I 'll let mum have the other one . |
| 4 | I 've got I did have the other one , Crossroads , but the reason why I had it was because Dave was in the house and he had it . |
| 5 | Ca n't I just have the other one , cos I got that one right ? |
| 6 | I 'll have the broken one |
| 7 | Oh well Gary ca n't have the brown one cos that 's his anyway . |
| 8 | No you 'd rather have the head one ? |
| 9 | You ca n't have a standard one . |
| 10 | ‘ One will do fine for his dallta , Lachlan , but I 'll have a new one made for your heir . |
| 11 | no no I think I 'll have a new one , that 's got very thin |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You ca n't have a new one |
| 14 | Yeah , you 'll be driving this one well I 'll have a new one . |
| 15 | You 'll have a good one there . |
| 16 | Yeah , we 're gon na have a flat one . |
| 17 | We 're gon na have a nice one . |
| 18 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 19 | Er not , not the long one , we did n't have a long one we had a rou oval one . |
| 20 | Just the first kit , yes I shall probably do that there put it in without an envelope looks like there might , I might have so an odd I got some more of the envelopes at home I might have a small one , but er |
| 21 | We could have a small one . |
| 22 | Mm We could have a small one about there . |
| 23 | I mean we 'll have a spare one , yes . |
| 24 | We 'd have a whole one . |
| 25 | Oh I did n't have a whole one , I bought a half one . |
| 26 | well in that case then I might as well have a tested one and be stingy with it , erm oh where 's sage and onion , oh here we are , sage and onion Right quickly go and find nanny again cos we seem to have lost |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , it probably did n't have a pink one either . |
| 29 | I 've not got any fancy biscuits , but you can have a plain one |
| 30 | Okay Noel thank you for your er your time and being a good sport this afternoon and I hear you have a little one you had better go back and sort things out . |