Example sentences of "[conj] have [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes a piece of fruit or a tub of yogurt is eaten at the end of lunch but more often she finishes with a biscuit or has nothing as dessert .
2 They swop over from one state ( usually over-eating or having lots of high-sugar , high-fat foods ) to another , quite separate , diet state ( under-eating , with little fat or sugar ) .
3 The best I can say is that Boy looked something like , or had something like the feel of , Paul Newman when he 's playing the character christened Chance Wayne in that Tennessee Williams film .
4 But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen .
5 The National Health Service does operate its own convalescent facilities but there are also many private ones if you are covered by insurance or have plenty of money .
6 If the reader is happy to meet no Albanian , he will be overjoyed by the absence of anyone from India , China or the USSR , for no one in his right mind could imagine that those who dwell in these alien steppes and deserts could either enjoy ‘ states of mind ’ or have anything worth saying about them .
7 Most sailing clubs will have a few catamarans clustered together in one end of the dinghy park , but if you are keen to race one it is best to choose a club that has plenty of water space and specialises in a large multihull fleet .
8 Each of these labels indicates an aspect of study that has something in common , and our use of ‘ information skills ’ includes some parts of all of them ‘ ( p 11 ) .
9 Hulme explained , ‘ I 'm of the species that has lots of testosterone pumping around its body .
10 ‘ This is a new market for Guinness and one that has lots of potential but , though the Vietnamese drink plenty of beer , a black beer is virtually unknown .
11 Erm but I mean there 's nothing in , in that that we get from national level that has anything at all appertaining to Northumberland in it or on it , has it ?
12 Starts with a wolf-howl and then descends into galactic camp that has none of Betty Boo 's appeal , but all of her ideas ( that 's both of them ) .
13 I had no plan , or rather a hundred plans , which is worse than having none at all .
14 But again , it 's the cheapest plan , and it 's a plan that today could be better than having none at all .
15 I think that having somebody in pram pushing distance , who has recently had a baby can be of great value and at least it means there is help at hand if you need it .
16 So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not .
17 The Ford ‘ Edsel ’ , unveiled as the car that had everything in the way of advanced engineering , flopped like a dead duck with the public which presumably was little interested in engineering .
18 As a child in wartime London I must have unconsciously sought a hobby that had nothing of death in it — something that was all beauty .
19 John Newsom knew that , in his two Reports , he was moving nimbly between two worlds that had nothing in common .
20 For instance , Alex was shown pairs of objects that had nothing in common and asked ‘ What 's the same ? ’
21 Out of the honed hard grain that had nothing in it .
22 But this was an encounter that had none of the froth of those liaisons .
23 More than a hundred years of systematic captivity had created a whole new genus , animals that had none of the skills and few of the desires of a wild habitat .
24 rather than have somebody above your head .
25 For them to develop properly they need guidance and a good example , and you ca n't do much better than have somebody like Fergie in your setup — somebody who has done and seen it all . ’
26 The increase in local stress , which can be calculated , depends solely upon the shape of the hole and has nothing at all to do with its size .
27 The misinformation concerns only the route Déj ‘ a Vu and has nothing at all to do with Prodigal Sons .
28 Interesting facts culled from a meeting with the leading lights of both Aldus and Adobe at last year 's Appleworld show indicate that the main problem with PostScript on the Macintosh is the QuickDraw to PostScript conversion process and has nothing at all to do with the LaserWriter or PostScript .
29 It seems , however , that many women worry that their partner 's arousal is dependent on the lingerie they 're togged out in , and has nothing at all to do with them .
30 The cave is ten yards long with a low roof and has nothing of interest , its only merit being as a safe refuge from rain and wind .
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