Example sentences of "she [modal v] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ First Lady Francesca may be beautiful , she may have a sharp wit , but not the power to collect and convey secret information to some spy-master in Paris . |
| 2 | Alternatively , he or she may have a self-imposed rule not to drink before a certain time of day or on particular days , weeks or months or even years . |
| 3 | You are afraid to ask what it 's about because you feel she must have a legitimate reason to see you urgently , so you stay home and are late for work . |
| 4 | ‘ She must have a strong mouth , ’ said the Bookman . |
| 5 | Cor , she must have a big fanny |
| 6 | She must have a colossal debt . |
| 7 | But as the ground is a lot quicker now , she must have a bright chance . |
| 8 | She should have a purpose-designed restraint appropriate for her age and weight . |
| 9 | Yesterday , she had thought she might have a healthy career in front of her . |
| 10 | Mrs Hamilton said that she did not discover that she might have a legal action until 1988 . |
| 11 | So instead of immediately looking for the weakness in a woman , I will look for the strength and I will discount the fact that she might have a great body or be simply beautiful . |
| 12 | I do n't mind that and at least she 'll have a shortish coat wo n't she ? |
| 13 | She 'll have a flat nose ! |
| 14 | She wo n't have a flat face , she 'll have a flat nose . |
| 15 | Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , they wheeled me over to Ophthalmology so she could have a good look , ’ Faye told him . |
| 17 | Once it was dark , Jane went out to sit on a low wall where she could have a good view . |
| 18 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 19 | No , she could have a red-haired baby later . |
| 20 | And now , here was Matilda sitting in the classroom with a curiously exalted look on her face and asking if she could have a private talk . |
| 21 | Perhaps she could have a little porch built over the side door and a bit could be cut off Lizzie 's kitchen to make a small hall . |
| 22 | If Mrs Marr knew a bit of human anatomy , for example , if she 'd had a medical training or been a PE teacher something like that , she 'd have a better chance of being competent , by which I mean lethal . |
| 23 | At least there the floor would be still , and she would n't be feeling so horribly queasy , and she 'd have a dry bed . |
| 24 | Then last night she said she would n't come tonight because there was nothing on — she 'd have a quiet night in her room . |
| 25 | so she 's er , she 's waiting for 'em to come to do that , anyway she 's er , somebody rang her did n't they and they asked her if she 'd have a little boy of four months old , Thursdays and Fridays all day and she started this week with him , so I said well Pauline |
| 26 | ‘ I thought she 'd have a rougher time than she did , unlike some team members who were like bulls at a gate . |
| 27 | Well , if the norm in the Church was the Bishop and Miss Tilley , you could see she 'd have a fair amount of concealing to do . |
| 28 | She would have a new dress for Sundays , which next year became an afternoon dress , and the next was worn in the mornings for doing her housework . |
| 29 | She would have a new coat for winter once in about three years , and the same for summer , with a suit for ‘ in between weather , ’ ( spring and autumn ) , so there was only one of these major expenses each year . |
| 30 | ‘ Tell your client , ’ said the voice at the other end of the phone , ‘ that he or she would have a better chance of establishing who is or is not responsible for his or her dustbins if he or she employed a lawyer who did n't address his inquiries to people whose principal concern is pharmacology . ’ |