Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb mod] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My constituents , er many of them will be concerned personally because they may have a relative in the army , now that we 've got ground troops out there , or they may have a relative who 's lived there or , or you know , God forbid , some of , some of them may have relatives who , who are hostages . |
| 2 | I 'll send letters by you to Rhys and Gwilym , and they 'll have a man waiting across Severn at Guilsfield , ready to pass on any word you send him . |
| 3 | And they 'll have a home in Nairobi . |
| 4 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 5 | Right , right but the two's company and three 's a crowd idea is that if you 've got er two people , they , they may have er some libidinal interest in each other and they may have a couple , but a third person is , is just a complication . |
| 6 | And they would have a king again in sympathy with them . |
| 7 | Come that way er like , they do n't seemed to be giving it to 'em , and it was nothing to do with them , they bought it and , and they would have a search done as the reason when you buy houses are n't there ? |
| 8 | The Royal Institution had tried this and they would have a set of Saturday mornings where they had mathematicians talking to children of about thirteen or fourteen . |
| 9 | And they can have a picnic ? |
| 10 | I 've also spoken to Medicalert , and they can have a plane standing by , ready to fly the Hammonds direct to London , where an ambulance will be waiting . |
| 11 | She told them that she and Mike were going to be married very soon and they could have a look at her wedding dress as it was nearly finished . |
| 12 | I hope I 'm not being facetious , but they 'll have a hell of a time with him … |
| 13 | Aphorisms do n't have to be right , but they must have a snap to them . |