"Do you remember,dear Aylmer, about the dream you had last night about this hateful mark?"

VOA: special.2009.09.26

All you had to do was pick up the gold from the ground.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

'Now doctor,' the old man said, 'suppose you had a patient like that.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

The expression means being afraid to do something you had decided to do.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

They had to be home, and they had to stick to their plans, because you had no way of communicating with someone once you left for your destination.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

"My poor friend," I said, "how long have you had that cough?"

VOA: special.2009.02.07

"The eyes light up and click. It happens -- 'I didn't know you had this.'" Jenny Johnson is the executive director of marketing for the Online Computer Library Center.

VOA: special.2011.07.11

"No." Amelia told her, "you had better take it now."

VOA: special.2010.05.26

But you had better ask your employer first.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

It was just lying on the ground. All you had to do was go to Alaska, and then to the Klondike area of the Yukon Territory of Canada and collect your gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

"You had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"If you had had ten pounds on each and every prediction then re-invested your winnings you would currently have over 1,450 pounds."

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

"That was reassuring, but it also meant that if you were unidentified you had potential friendly fire not too far away at a moment's notice."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

It's kind of like , where you had side A,side B and you just flipped it over when you wanted to change your mood so to speak.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18