Example sentences of "[adv] you [modal v] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you ought to have a word with the kitchen staff , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 2 | Perhaps you should have a rest . ’ |
| 3 | I woke up having 5 minute contractions and thought I 'd lost ‘ my water ’ on the loo , without really being sure ( if only you could have a trial run — but then you might not go through with it if you did ! ) |
| 4 | So you might have a stand |
| 5 | So you 'll have a whisky ? |
| 6 | So you could have a pint while waiting for your train a Victorian version of Travellers Fare . |
| 7 | So you could have a relationship between parents and children . |
| 8 | So you can have a drink . |
| 9 | So you can have a week 's holiday for |
| 10 | My mention on the planner that the strips oops those strips , all these prices are identified here and when you take this away you can have a look at it . |
| 11 | There 's a hidden advantage in giving way now — and anyway you 'll have a chance to regain any lost ground later on . |
| 12 | Right you can have a lie down now . |
| 13 | Westminster chimes are standard , but for a little more you can have a selection of three chimes . |
| 14 | Also you may have a lot of standing orders or direct debits , with which , although building societies are becoming more accustomed to dealing , banks still have more experience in administering . |
| 15 | Now you may have a customer that comes into the shop at A and they need something desperately , they walk in the sho , may walk in and say look I need that compact disc player , my life depends on having compact disc player and shopkeeper no see now we have n't got it . |
| 16 | Now you can have a go . |
| 17 | But now you must have a drink with me . |
| 18 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 19 | Well you could have a look at your best ones and decide which ones you want to keep for best . |
| 20 | yeah well you could have a bit of material could n't you ? |
| 21 | Yeah they will yeah , well you can have a word with them first , you 've got to have a word with them before you escalate any way |
| 22 | Well you can have a committee meeting |
| 23 | Well you can have a song in a minute when we 've had a prayer . |
| 24 | So let's add a couple more columns in and then back here you can have a look at whether they actually gain those , whether they got what they wanted . |
| 25 | And then I have n't got space now , but here you 'd have a millionth , six noughts that 'd been a million . |
| 26 | ‘ Surely you 'll have a cup of tea with us ? ’ |
| 27 | I mean surely you could have a point eight for crystal and still solder ? |
| 28 | Maybe you 'll have a drink next time . ’ |
| 29 | And so I should do you because you shave under your armpits and maybe you would have a baby and that would spite your father . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe you should have a word . |