Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 2 | So I can just have a quick check and make sure they are okay , but I 'm pretty sure if you think they 're right |
| 3 | So er if I can just have the lights off at this stage please . |
| 4 | if I can just have your attention for a moment |
| 5 | Yeah so that I can either have it up or down really . |
| 6 | And I can only have been about nine when a schoolfriend proudly showed snaps of her mother fancy-dressed as ‘ No-one loves a fairy when she 's 40 ’ . |
| 7 | Not right at this minute cos I can only have four at once , but after I 've had this four I 'll be choosing some more people , I 'll be looking round for somebody who 's |
| 8 | I I said well I suppose it 's I do and he said but you work hard June , I said I know but I said kno I said what I do , I can only have hour out there and an hour inside . |
| 9 | I mean , I can only have fo lunchtime with Claire , like , I 've been having tomatoes on toast and some . |
| 10 | Some days I think I 'm only young — I fell straight away for her [ the baby ] — I used to think before I was married I 'd better get all the clothes I want now because I 'll never get them when I 'm married — but I was wrong , because I can really have all I want now … |
| 11 | ‘ Fashion now is not boring for me , because I can still have fun , even if the money is made on the more classical items , ’ concludes Smith . |
| 12 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 13 | But since I can never have Fergus , not ever , why should I not have Raynor ? |
| 14 | I can never have him , nor he me . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm too young for pearls , ’ she teased , ‘ and I have shoes enough , but I can never have enough of romance . ’ |
| 16 | but as you say I , I can never have a real conversation with her like I can natter |
| 17 | There is no immediate prospect that I can ever have her back , but I would like to keep the door open for that . |
| 18 | For memories are the only things I can ever have of you now , my sweet , lovely girl … |
| 19 | Hiding her feelings quickly , she said , ‘ I would have had four more years of your love than I can ever have now . ’ |
| 20 | She can rarely have travelled , for example , more than fifteen miles from Brackley , Northamptonshire , where she lived for most of her twenty-four years . |
| 21 | What she can also have , which might at first glance seen off-putting , is great expertise in some abstruse art or science , though this should never of course be an unpleasant one . |
| 22 | ‘ When she comes to London , ’ said Jannie , ‘ she can always have the spare room here , you know . ’ |
| 23 | In other families the mother may be responsible for the discipline and management of the house and feel she can never have fun with the child and that father seems to have all the nice times . |
| 24 | Peach , and she can maybe have some grey and some blue . |
| 25 | She can hardly have been surprised that the spotlight stayed on her marriage — her husband is , after all , the man who will be our next king . |
| 26 | Then , as we neared the entrance , a ship came up astern , and she can only have been one of Everard 's sailing barges coming up on the tide . |
| 27 | Make it clear , too , that she can only have the toy if she gives one of hers in exchange . |
| 28 | She 's only got one to appraise so she can only have one |
| 29 | Bloody lot , I mean she 's got every , I think credit card out that she can possibly have |
| 30 | If he gets away , you can easily have him become a nemesis figure for the adventurers in future , returning again and again to avenge himself for the loss of Juliane . |