I may be looking at my score or have something on television.
"I have wonderful undergraduates, but they haven't gotten enough sleep the night before a class, or have something to do for economics".
Try to find a subject that has not been written about – or have something really fresh and surprising to say about an old theme.
"If you're going to charge someone with murder, don't you have to know how they killed someone or why they might have killed someone or have something, where, when, why, how?" Ms. Ford said.
"If there are Americans who after traveling in North Korea want to get in touch with us or have something to share with us, we take the phone calls".
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But none of this means that novels, which can never be strictly of now, cannot have their own kind of "nowness" or have something which actually out-thrills the thrill of the merely contemporary.
People will drop in to sit on a sofa if they're in town anyway or have something specific to plug: but otherwise the guest list looks a tad threatened.
We go for all sorts of personal reasons: because we want to enjoy ourselves, have a night out with our friends, be moved or challenged, or have something to talk about.
"If you have bright kids, if they don't get away or have something positive that they like to do, they never make it out of here," said Ms. James, black glasses protecting eyes ravaged years ago by glaucoma.
Even if I don't like you or have something to say about you that isn't nice, I'll tell it to your face even though you might not like it.
