Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't have a quarter of it . |
| 2 | Perhaps I could rule Scotland without a man , but I could not have a child without one . |
| 3 | If I could perhaps have a picture my father painted ? ’ |
| 4 | I could then have a shoal of adult Uaru , and that is a dream I would n't mind realising . |
| 5 | I do n't know if I could ever have a relationship , the way I feel about my body . |
| 6 | However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child . |
| 7 | She could n't have er she could n't have a feather pillow . |
| 8 | Her nanny , though , was once stopped in the street by someone demanding to know how she could possibly have a child by a black man . |
| 9 | A pond does n't have to be large to be effective — if it 's big enough to install a small submersible pump you could even have a fountain . |
| 10 | When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way . |
| 11 | When you wanted tea you could either have a pot of tea , or a ‘ cinema tea ’ , which was a pot of tea and a plate on which was a sandwich with the crusts cut off , which also represented something , and a cake . |
| 12 | If the chain proves popular you could soon have a Food Giant near you . |
| 13 | You could n't have a discussion |
| 14 | I mean you could n't have a meeting with the whole Catholic Church for example to decide on doctrine . |
| 15 | But if you 'd , if the original sum assured was only sixty thousand , you could only have a quarter , so you could only have fifteen thousand pounds maximum . |
| 16 | I mean , to die is not absolutely correct there is it , because I mean you could actually have a pay-out on critical illness , which happens earlier . |
| 17 | So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities . |
| 18 | Yeah because then you could have that , you could like have a story board for that advert that you thought of . |
| 19 | You could always have a bit of fun with Bill , people said . |
| 20 | T. D. You could always have a cigarette if you wanted it but if you got caught , you were in trouble . |
| 21 | There had been a certain amount of bustle about it , but you could hardly have a journey — any journey — without a bit of bustle . |
| 22 | Perhaps we could just have a look at what sort of angles we 've got here . |
| 23 | Never saw , you were n't meant to , and he says , no your mum said that we could either have a sweet or a starter , not both . |
| 24 | When it was being drawn up ‘ we agreed we could n't have a cash limit and we never said there would be a cash limit ’ . |
| 25 | Having done a railway trip together to the West Somerset Railway to celebrate our Silver Wedding anniversary , at a time when we could n't have a party , my wife and I recently held a belated one at the Gwili Railway , ably assisted by family , friends and some members of the BCRS committee . |
| 26 | The house was identified and purchased , and I do n't see any reason why we could n't have a stay of two or three days or a week to get time to move things properly . ’ |
| 27 | We could not have a debate in Committee and the House deserves serious answers on this extremely important issue . |
| 28 | ‘ If we beat Oxford and Plymouth on Saturday , we could still have a chance of automatic promotion . |
| 29 | They could n't have a season without him , but quite definitely they could n't have one without Busacher either . |
| 30 | Few people would ever own a home if they could not have a mortgage . |