Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why the tone of his communications with me has that slightly patronizing and protective edge . |
| 2 | Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect . |
| 3 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 4 | The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt . |
| 5 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 6 | The people who work with Ingrid are carefully chosen , not for their formal training ( apart from Deirdre , none of them has any ) but for their eye . |
| 7 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 8 | None of them has any connections here , not really ; they 're all bachelors ; at least , in a way . |
| 9 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
| 10 | The linguistic and other significatory structures of psychological discourse are rare objects of psychological investigation , so simply focusing on them has some critical impact . |
| 11 | I found I was trying to announce it the I 'd this and I 'd that in there . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd much rather they told me they 're not going to harm us . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Honestly , I 'd much rather . |
| 14 | If you must exercise flights of fancy , I 'd much rather you concentrated on working out how Chatterton could have committed murder . |
| 15 | I 'd much rather he went on acting and I went on learning . |
| 16 | I 'd much rather he stayed here being looked after by Mr Westaby |
| 17 | Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract . |
| 18 | And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be . |
| 19 | I I , If I 'd another one with a couple of |
| 20 | I got this notion that I 'd some terrible disease – as if the Con was n't terrible enough – and everybody would catch it off me . |
| 21 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 22 | I come home here then to Ipswich : I 'd enough of Yorkshire . |
| 23 | I found I was trying to announce it the I 'd this and I 'd that in there . |
| 24 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 25 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 26 | ‘ Had I had any idea what I was coming home to , I should have assured in advance that such a likeness would be instantly available . ’ |
| 27 | Have I had any what ? |
| 28 | It is also possible to express condition through subject-verb inversion in rather more formal or literary style : Had I had enough money I would have bought a new car . |
| 29 | We had I had half a big |
| 30 | ‘ Do I have that permission ? ’ |