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

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1 Now , the beauty of this sort of explanation , where you have everybody on your side , when you are dealing with somebody who is unpopular , when you are all desperately anxious to find a scapegoat , is that your argument is unlikely to be at all jealously scrutinised .
2 Eighteen forty six , eighteen forty eight , or eighteen fifty take a guess ca n't you or you have one in three chances this is one I did n't know , who were the Magi ?
3 Or what had you in mind ?
4 Any queries questions or what have you about that ?
5 or what have you in the chapel , they 'd go
6 This means that everyone has something in common with the rest of the group and it leads to a more relaxed and productive social activity .
7 It 's not that I 've anything against audiences , it 's just that when they 're a blur they 're so friendly — just one big smiley mess .
8 Not that I 've anything against Americans ; far from it .
9 I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted .
10 Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me .
11 Automatically I checked that I had plenty of fuel myself .
12 Assuming now that I was aware of one or two facts of which you , my dear , could not be , assuming that I had something of importance to communicate to Michel , would you still stick to your stubborn refusal ? ’
13 I told her that I had you at work then yesterday , right , she says oh no another one , right , and ended up
14 ‘ You see that I had you in my mind ! ’
15 ‘ Now that I have you at last you 'll never be away from me again . ’
16 ‘ I can assure you that I have none of those — er-appendages . ’
17 Not that I have anything against ugliness .
18 Not that I have anything against gas fitters but I do think that to do what I did at 15 takes a bit more courage .
19 It 's not that I have anything against them per se , of course .
20 ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’
21 My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time .
22 I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket !
23 If we say that they do have something in common with other things that look white we must remember that their having something in common simply is their looking white .
24 And why did the impact of his presence provoke such an undeniable response in her when , earlier , she had felt that she had everything under control ?
25 Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble .
26 Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage .
27 Nicklaus , sensing that she had something on her mind , offered an encouraging , ‘ Do n't be afraid to speak up ! ’
28 Not for sustenance , but so that she had something on which to focus her attention while she thought about her response to him .
29 But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands .
30 And she once again had the strong , peculiar feeling that was coming over her more and more often : the feeling that she had nothing in common with those two-legged creatures with a head on their shoulders and a mouth in their face .
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