Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband was going out to Qatar , that pear drop of moonscape pitted with rich oases and edged with ancient trading posts , the Emirate that had refused at the last moment to join Sheikh Zayed 's dream of unity . |
| 2 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 3 | For companies that have kept at a specified size over the years , working to budgets that they know and understand , are forced to expand to deal with the increased flow . |
| 4 | We can not , therefore , feel surprised that Professor Coleman , beset by so many obstacles in that particular branch of our art , and having arrived at an advanced period of life , could not fling himself into its pursuit ; nor was it reasonable to expect it from him ’ . |
| 5 | According to an oral tradition first set down thirty years after her death by Samuel Peckover , a prominent local Quaker , she was said to have been born in Paris , the daughter of James , Duke of York , then in exile , and an unnamed maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria , and to have lived at the English court from the Restoration to 1688 without , apparently , any contemporary ever noticing her . |
| 6 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 7 | If the deceased had led a reasonable life and had died at a good age without too much trouble , leaving a reasonably good family behind him , what was there to be miserable about ? |
| 8 | Others are said to be re-examining their positions in light of the latest industry consolidations and have baulked at a large scale media event to mark the signing of a common Unix document . |
| 9 | The Court named four police officers — Detective Superintendent George Reade , who headed the investigation , Detective Sergeant Colin Morris , Detective Constable Terence Woodwiss , and Detective Constable Rex Langford — as having lied at the original trial . |