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Sentence: Who do you have here to get on your nerves?



 
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Sentence: Who do you have here to get on your nerves? #1 (permalink) Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:57 am   Sentence: Who do you have here to get on your nerves?
 

Can one say:

1-Who do you have here to get on your nerves?
instead of:
2-Who is there to get on your nerves here?

I use 2. To me 1 could only be used ironically. Literally it means that you want someone to get on your nerves and I am asking you whether you have someone here to get on your nerves for you.
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Sentence: Who do you have here to get on your nerves? #2 (permalink) Fri Jun 19, 2009 14:19 pm   Sentence: Who do you have here to get on your nerves?
 

I think your assessment is largely accurate. Sentence 2 would usually mean, "Look around! There is no one here who will get on your nerves!" It is slightly sarcastic.
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