Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] have [art] " in BNC.

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1 He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation .
2 He also spoke of an occasion when , dressed in his archbishop 's robes after some function , he had hailed a taxi to go home and realized he had no money .
3 ‘ We collected 30 bags of rubbish in one day , and realised we had a serious problem , ’ he says ‘ From then on I decided to blitz the village a couple of days every week .
4 The moment she saw Mungo , Mary Ann fussed and tut-tutted and made him have a bath .
5 ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said .
6 ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’
7 Okay if we can move then to the agenda then , er , first of all can I wish all members and officers a happy new year and trust you had a , a festive season .
8 Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together .
9 Erm if the water 's very high and say we have a little a little pipe coming through there in the bottom .
10 How many people go back home and say I had an affair ?
11 ‘ It is not enough for the Secretary of State to wash his hands in this Pontius Pilate way and say he has no responsibility for what is happening . ’
12 However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges .
13 She secured her garage door and , having decided to walk round to the front of the building to find out what Naylor was so furious about , she turned around — and found she had no need to go anywhere .
14 Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent .
15 They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go …
16 He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park .
17 ‘ Foreigners who live in cities and criticise us have a bunny-love approach .
18 and d' ya have a lot of ?
19 He leaped into action , hurling towels at Mrs Morrison and urging her to have the sofa , now it was ruined , for whatever she liked .
20 Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes .
21 Only one way to grab his interest — give him a Winston Churchill Commemorative Crown at the outset of our allotted five-minute interview and hope we have the chance to exchange more than names .
22 Well , at that point we 've got to three o'clock and the end of the term , erm I 'll take up Totem and Taboo , and its more forward lis looking aspects in the first lecture of er , next term , and I wish you all a happy Christmas , and new year , and hope you have a good , a good vacation and look forward to seeing you here again , the first Thursday of next term .
23 We used to go on a tram-car and have a smoke , and a councillor was on there once , and noticed us having a smoke .
24 He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me .
25 A WOMAN whose silicone breast implant ruptured and caused her to have a partial mastectomy was awarded £17 million by an American jury yesterday .
26 I found one of the drummers and let him have a tape and he loved it .
27 It would n't have occurred to you to leave Adam in peace and let him have a well-deserved weekend off , would it ?
28 He said : ‘ Clay County wrenched the muscles in his quarters when dropping his hind legs in the water jump at Nottingham , so we decided to give the Cheltenham Festival a miss and let him have a long break .
29 In the end I had to get it down and let him have a sniff before he .
30 It 's as if everyone else had given up and the Government then said , ‘ Oh , give the workers some money and let them have a go . ’
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