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The forms I've got money and I've got no money (or I haven't got any money) are far more common in AE than I have money and either I have no money or I don't have money, though I believe that AE speakers might detect a difference in emphasis: I have money is more likely to be said after someone else has said I haven't any money, I've not got any money, or I don't have (any) money when confronted with having to pay for something, as in That's okay, I have money.
Over the holidays they confronted each other with their mutual suspicions, and Paltrow broke it off, leaving Affleck heartbroken, reports the Enquirer . Ah, Ben, if only you'd taken this advice from Sonnet 138 :
Writing in 1824, Ranke conjured a memorable image of the modern critical historian confronted by, and determined to derive order from, the boundless quantities of available source material:
Confronted with a requirement to acquire a building or other constructed facility, owner organizations, both public and private, traditionally participate in a multiphased process involving conceptual planning, design, procurement, construction, and startup.
Although many articles, theoretical essays, and books have been written about metaphors, little effort has been made to investigate them systematically: as all of language is itself a metaphor (unless one believes in logomancy), one is continually confronted in the compilation of an ordinary dictionary with examples of semantic and linguistic changes (as well as amelioration, pejoration, etc.) that are tantamount to shifts of meaning that, loosely, could be said to be metaphoric.
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