Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] have [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember just before Steve Jones had his big breakthrough in Chicago 1984 , Alan said half-jokingly that all you have to do for a marathon is overtrain at 10,000m . |
| 2 | By the time that Orchard made his last will in January 1504 he had married for a second time . |
| 3 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 4 | But first they had to look for a camp site so Mr was the chief engineer I was employed by him , to have a look round and we discovered Lyness farm to be a suitable place . |
| 5 | In particular it has paid for a text telephone — or ‘ minicom ’ — for the delivery suite . |
| 6 | ‘ Our side against Huddersfield will be the most experienced we have fielded for a long time . |