Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been dozens of dead animals lying around , most of them killed by shrapnel or having wandered into a minefield . |
| 2 | It would have made no difference if the ironmonger 's door had been shut instead of open , and the ox had pushed its way through , or had gone through a plateglass window . |
| 3 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 4 | It was unclear whether this was an independent Serbian initiative , or had resulted from an agreement with the JNA . |
| 5 | Perhaps he had been knocked down , or had died of a heart attack . |
| 6 | This is it you see , I mean a , a company like or have gone to a lot of trouble to get that length right , er and to tune the box and all this that and the other and get the right , I do n't know maybe er just think oh you know you just build this , put this massive speaker in and call it a sub based woofer |
| 7 | It is this combination of factors that has led to a stream of government interventions over pay determination , productivity and working practices , investment and closure decisions , and industrial conflict . |
| 8 | The approach is primarily focused on helping patients resolve the crisis that has led to an overdose and on tackling their longer-term problems , largely using their own resources to do so and thereby developing greater ability to cope with stresses in future . |
| 9 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
| 10 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 11 | Bouncing around on the end of an elastic rope may not be everyone 's idea of fun , but for the 24-year-old from Staindrop , County Durham , it 's a fascination that has turned into a living . |
| 12 | It is itself a social product that has arisen as a result of political and ideological processes and institutions and its particular form has to be explained in terms of such processes . |
| 13 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 14 | Launching the document , to be distributed to schools and organisations in the borough , Coun. Williams said : ‘ It is particularly appropriate that the day after the first anniversary of the completion of the highly successful and acclaimed Railside Revival something that has served as a model to the whole of the North-East we are unveiling the new environmental charter for Darlington next to the main line railway in the Rockwell nature conservation area . ’ |
| 15 | As he makes clear , this is only of benefit when the average number of records that has overflowed from a track is two or more . |
| 16 | I do not see Hoffman 's hesitancies of speech , his throatbound voice that has to struggle past a colony of frogs , his eyes that crouch nervously in their sockets , as a proof of consequential ratiocination going on inside his head . |
| 17 | In fact , independently of current concern about the constitution , there has been a trend to " judicial activism " that has resulted in a situation in which the courts have shown a much greater willingness to become involved in challenging the use of ministerial discretion and prerogative powers . |
| 18 | Do you ever have to copy type into the computer text and other data that has arrived in a fax ? |
| 19 | Quigley leaped into the air like a monkey that has sat on a bunsen burner and gave a sort of primal grunt . |
| 20 | Although having worked as a contract systems analyst for ICI , Matthew believes that a small company can operate much more efficiently than a large one . |
| 21 | And maybe at the end of the day , the County Council will have to come to a conclusion , after you 've made your general recommendations , with or without a location maybe th they will decide that having gone through a consultation exercise , they 're only course is to modify the proposals which would then have to be the subject of another E I P . |
| 22 | Soon after its talks with Wells Fargo fell through , Security Pacific announced that it was cutting back its international operations , once a big growth area , because of bad loans in Britain and Australia that had contributed to a $230m fourth-quarter loss . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's the trouble with Nicky , ’ Constance told Louise after she had returned from yet another evening that had ended with a quarrel . |
| 24 | Last time she had slipped out in the dark like this was on the night the Doyles had come , the night that had ended with a mystery and a death . |
| 25 | The katun , comprising twenty years of 360 days , was the most important unit of time in the Maya view , because the events in one katun were expected to approximate to those in a previous katun that had ended on a day with the same number . |
| 26 | To Karen , that had sounded like a lot of Jessica 's most harsh and brittle statements , the harshness and the brittleness barely concealing something darker underneath . |
| 27 | The Authority was less successful in its attempt to ensure that disciplinary proceedings were brought against a detective superintendent , whose early retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1989 meant that he avoided questions about his links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs , queries that had arisen after a World in Action television programme which had made serious allegations about corruption in the London police . |
| 28 | It was the last thing in the world I wanted to do , but I could n't refuse , not after the work that had gone into a production like this . |
| 29 | But ten million people had died in a campaign that had begun as a summer frolic in 1914 and now ended in a shower of November rain . |
| 30 | The bright evening skies that had served as a backdrop for the parade of revenants had been blotted out by a darkness which entombed them once more in the grave of the past . |