Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for those countries who live under a non-religious dictatorship and are officially atheist , they appear to have learned a few things from the Inquisition . |
| 2 | The face of Helen of Troy is said to have launched a thousand ships , and the beauty of Cleopatra created havoc in the Roman Empire . |
| 3 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 4 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 5 | ‘ Somebody seems to have scored a hundred runs and been the hero of the school . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , he seems to have made a complete balls of it , ’ said Sir Harry . |
| 7 | At this point , we must admit you do have to press a few buttons to get Delta service . |
| 8 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |
| 9 | We 've had to make a million pounds savings this last year . |
| 10 | this is the story of my life now in the bathroom I have had , I have had to pay a hundred pounds to Mr Butcher the plumber to put in a new shower thing because that was cheap and rough and eventually wore out should never have been put in . |