Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Guy 's Hospital the poisons unit has had to set up a psychiatric liaison service to help such patients . |
| 2 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |
| 3 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 4 | In July FIS militants were reported to have burned down a divorced woman 's house " to purge her sins ' , resulting in the death of her three-year-old son . |
| 5 | He seemed to have taken on a new lease of life . |
| 6 | Just as the 1972 Conference on the Environment and Development in Stockholm is said to have ushered in a new era of international cooperation ( at the very least , it led to the creation of the United National Environment Programme ) , so its 1992 successor could just provide all world leaders with some kind of working map for the future . |
| 7 | Police investigating the accident in which Leslie Crowther was critically injured have ruled out a mechanical failure as a possible cause . |
| 8 | The LTTE claimed to have shot down a Marchetti combat aircraft with a SAM 7 missile . |
| 9 | Polisario also claimed to have shot down a Moroccan Mirage F-1 fighter and to have succeeded in occupying a 25-km section of the Moroccan wall . |
| 10 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 11 | POSH gifts group Aspreys is thought to have lined up a late Christmas present for itself . |
| 12 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
| 13 | You seem to have filled in a few blank spaces for me . ’ |
| 14 | THE house where ex-Goon Peter Sellers was born has taken on a new lease of life as a Chinese restaurant . |
| 15 | Had the Inland Revenue won , it would have affected so many employees — tax practitioners claim hundreds of thousands — that the Revenue would have had to set up a special unit just to cope with the paperwork . |
| 16 | Shirai 's voice here seems to have taken on a new dimension , a darker tonal colour , a new expressiveness that is constantly compelling with the emphasis on the drama . |
| 17 | Almost every woman I 've known had to live off a perpetual menu of rabbit 's food . |
| 18 | I do n't want to have to take out a new mortgage every time I move up the ladder . |
| 19 | Makeshift Australian opener Mark Waugh , a scorer of two half centuries in the series , appeared to have set up a winning total when he hit 108 . |
| 20 | Write briefly how you , as a receptionist , would deal with the situation where guests complain that their room has not been cleaned and they have had to wait over a half an hour for room service . |
| 21 | Plateless bolt-on necks are the order of the day , and the Koreans have had to work out a strange method of extending the neck an extra step past the end of the fingerboard to try to keep the Rickenbacker look ( you might be able to spot this feature on the black one , between the neck and middle pickups ) . |
| 22 | A wine bar called Fox 's had opened up a short walk away in Church Street , causing such amazement that the Observer printed an article about it . |