Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 2 | We 're not going to make anything right this minute , cos first of all we 're going to sit down have a nice cup of tea and Christopher 's going to read to me , so we 're going to get that out of the way before the excitement thing happens |
| 3 | Not to mention the profit being made by private clinics when rich girls are flown in to have an artificial hymen put in so that the rituals of defloration may continue . |
| 4 | Knight , 30 , may not have enjoyed the success Grobbelaar has , but his career has rarely had a dull moment since he signed as a 14-year-old schoolboy when Ian St John was manager . |
| 5 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 6 | If we then go back to er , look at the profits as a whole , there are just three items I 'd like to comment on , the corporate expenses as other income er , has obviously had a dramatic improvement . |
| 7 | The recession has obviously had an adverse effect on attractions throughout the country , not least of all steam railways . |
| 8 | Despite the damage man has done to the Asian elephant , he has long had a close partnership with the great animal founded if not on love then certainly on respect . |
| 9 | How this system of allocation has been operated and controlled has long had a significant effect in moulding the social composition of the rural village , for it has largely influenced who lives where . |
| 10 | Porteous has long had a high reputation for stocking maps and guides in depth , and its customers , to whom it also supplies daily newspapers , include large city companies whose executives travel regularly and widely . |
| 11 | The argument that public sector employment has expanded so much that it has absorbed too much labour and it has thus had an adverse effect on the national economy will be examined in the next chapter . |
| 12 | ‘ The recession has not had a major impact , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 13 | Since the Root Thesaurus did not emerge until 1981 , it has not had a great impact on existing thesauri to date , but it could well be important in the future . |
| 14 | ‘ He has not had a good season with injury and must be a bit depressed — he wants to be playing . |
| 15 | The House has not had a good record in the past years . |
| 16 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
| 17 | DEC has not had a top sales executive since John Shields left the company in 1990 to take over the helm at doomed Prime Computer Inc . |
| 18 | But since the X-ray satellite Ariel VI , it has not had a national project . |
| 19 | Retail has not had a high profile in Marxist discussions of these issues . |
| 20 | In Skipton , North Yorkshire , The Gargrave Park rehabilitation centre has not had a full referral since 1 April , leaving five of its seven beds empty . |
| 21 | America , which has not had a big oil spill since 1976 , is reacting collectively and predictably to the spill in Prince William Sound off Alaska by condemning the oil business and all its works . |
| 22 | But which of us , locked behind a desk or in a queue at the supermarket check-out , has not had an overwhelming desire to drop everything , run into the street , hail a passing cab and make for the nearest airport to catch a plane to anywhere ? |
| 23 | The 32-year-old French film director has just flown into London from LA , and has not had an easy time of it . |
| 24 | The Government has not had an economic policy since it was forced to withdraw from the European Monetary System and let the value of the pound plummet . |
| 25 | ‘ Diana came off that plane in Korea as if she has just had a stand-up row with Charles , ’ the aide said . |
| 26 | Birmingham Children 's Hospital has just had a new fish tank donated by the city 's Aqualand Pet Centre . |
| 27 | ‘ His daughter , Cissie , has just had an illegitimate baby , ’ Zelah chimed in . |
| 28 | The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act has already had a beneficial effect on our countryside and wild animals , but it is not enough . |
| 30 | Such work is starting to have an effect in feminist psychology , but it has already had a great influence on feminism . |