Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now I learn that the Foundation has just had to purchase a number of canvases from this very donor for a far from meagre amount . |
| 2 | Most notable among the latter were numerous gold bees or cicadas , which appear once to have adorned a cloak , a small bull 's head , also made of gold , and a signet-ring , which identified the occupant of the tomb . |
| 3 | He had a point there , his reluctant listener admitted , Rose probably had kept a key . |
| 4 | One primary school head teacher in whose school pilot testing of pupils was carried out has expressed a willingness to ‘ break the law unless the tests are drastically changed ’ and another school 's head ( probably illegally ) later suspended the tests in the face of parents ' objections . |
| 5 | Many former refugee children report never having seen a Bloomsbury House representative . |
| 6 | Potter says this approach has been satisfactory , although he would not say how many times the company had used it , but Psion has never had to take a case to court . |
| 7 | I 'd once had to miss a rendezvous with him after he 'd done his own stripping vicar act for some giggling secretary 's twenty-first birthday and he 'd shot out of the pub stark bollock naked to find me somewhere else . |
| 8 | The more I thought of that midnight face , the more intelligent and charming it became ; and it seemed too to have had a breeding , a fastidiousness , a delicacy , that attracted me as fatally as the local fishermen 's lamps attracted fish on moonless nights . |
| 9 | Yevgeniy does n't claim ever to have hooked a whopper , but in the good old days , he said , the living was easy , the fish popped out of the ice . |
| 10 | He hardly put a foot wrong in the first round and I ca n't remember once having to discuss a club or study a line with him . |
| 11 | The Ife smiths were so self-confident that they seem always to have allowed a casting to cool slowly inside the mould instead of splashing cold water over it so it could be opened and checked quickly , which is the usual modern African practice , The slow cooling allowed the metal crystals to grow . |
| 12 | But the problem with these groups is not that they 're wimps , but that they 're runts ; not that they 're vulnerable or soppy , but that they 're flimsy , What 's happened is that the perfectly valiant and appropriate refusal to grow up has become a refusal to grow , musically — to take on space , drift , experiment . |
| 13 | And also , it 's cos that , you know after we had that row about Terry , after Bank Holiday expecting not to have to do a day in the shop , and er he 's already owing Brian a day ? |
| 14 | I remember once having to chase a man who had done something nasty to someone , and losing him in the darkness as he dashed down a cobbled mews . |
| 15 | There 's a long waiting list and those who get there have to run a gauntlet , which not all survive . |
| 16 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 17 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 18 | He seems not to have received a post until 964/1557 , but was then given the Kasim Pasa medrese in Istanbul at the level , thus bypassing the 20- , 30- and 40-akce grades : he would not normally , of course , receive a medrese the salary of which was less than his pension had been . |
| 19 | The DTI was found not to have heeded a number of warnings from authoritative sources about the dubious status of the Clowes em pire : witness the Bank of England , the Stock Exchange and the regula tory bodies . |
| 20 | The association with Fahreddin Acemi of the only information in the Turkish sources about the activities of the early Muftis may well not be entirely coincidental , for in one very important respect he seems to have differed from his two predecessors in the traditional list , Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan , in that he appears not to have held a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , whereas Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan apparently both held the kadilik of Bursa at the same time as the Muftilik . |
| 21 | Wilfrid withdrew into Mercia and from there resumed his appeal in person at Rome where he appears now to have expressed a readiness to relinquish his bishopric provided he could retain Ripon and Hexham ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 51 ) . |
| 22 | Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , noted that the weather the tourists have experienced here has changed a number of perceptions of Fijian rugby . |
| 23 | As more and more stone-filled gabions were built in to reduce the erosion which the scheme had set in train , it became apparent that Pandora 's box had been opened , and that what might have worked as a piece of traditional river canalization in the cohesive sediments found downstream had proved a recipe for disaster when applied in the unstable gravels of this upland brook . |
| 24 | When a female is ready to spawn she will leave her cave ( in which she will have previously have spent a lot of time ) and approach the male , who will display to her by quivering his body slightly and beating his tail in front of her , so that she is buffeted by the current created . |
| 25 | Having never had to face a situation of wholesale redundancies in the past , ICI 's policies for dealing with them were out of date and inadequate . |
| 26 | The fourth and fifth editions followed in 1741 and 1747 , although Thomas Martyn confessed never to have seen a copy of the latter . |
| 27 | You will end up having written a novel , not a crime novel . |
| 28 | Over the years , Carry On has become a cult . |
| 29 | Is it , is that because the th the house you live in 's got a lot of green space round it ? |
| 30 | With 49.45 per cent of the vote , Herenton fell just short of an actual plurality , but did not have to undergo a runoff election as required in the past . |