Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My kids have got a paddock , where they play . |
| 2 | My parents had rented a cottage on a farm at Backakeldy , ten miles south from Kirkwall overlooking the sea on the eastern shores of Scapa Flow . |
| 3 | Both I and my officials have had a number of such discussions with a variety of people . |
| 4 | But none of my predecessors has found a way of introducing it here , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 5 | And Bassett , indignant that Wednesday manager Trevor Francis had appealed before the match for good behaviour by both sides , said : ‘ I wonder what would have happened if one of my players had committed a foul like that . ’ |
| 6 | My tears have washed a lot of the make-up from that eye and there 's a black streak running down my cheek . |
| 7 | So far my enquiries have drawn a blank , your tracks are so well covered . |
| 8 | They have become commoner in recent years as business executives and their employers have sought a means of solving disputes without recourse to courts of law . |
| 9 | On a range of third-world issues their policies have taken a turn for the better and are broadly the same as those of Labour — support for the Palestinians , dialogue with the ANC , endorsement of the ‘ safe haven ’ for the Kurds . |
| 10 | On 26 October the queen and her supporters had issued a proclamation at Bristol declaring that since the king had deserted the realm , presumably by fleeing to Glamorgan , Prince Edward was to be Reeper of the Realm , and the prince issued writs in his father 's name summoning parliament for 15 December . |
| 11 | Twice before it had stopped , allowing them to get close , only to move away again as their senses had reached a fever pitch of readiness . |
| 12 | One of its subsidiaries has developed a machine capable of extracting the harmful gas from refrigeration plant with a environmentally sound technique . |
| 13 | He kept saying how their fortunes had taken a turn for the better from the moment Alice began playing with the group . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the arrival of the new Hurricanes and their pilots had allowed a number of the old ‘ workhorses ’ to be relieved . |
| 15 | At first the civilian foremen who came to the Factory each morning from Barashevo village had shouted that the men should stay at their work , but their protests had made a battle that he could not win . |
| 16 | Their pursuers had lit a lantern , the better to see their way , and now two shadowy figures were silhouetted in the alley mouth . |
| 17 | Its leaders had retained a distance from the perceived excesses of militancy that began to surface and gain momentum after 1917 when opposition to the war mounted and hopeful eyes turned to Russia ( for good accounts of this period see Cole 1969 and Miliband 1973 ) . |
| 18 | One of her friends had married a man with the same late-July birthday as his wife — and what a knock-out , drag-out marriage that had been ! |
| 19 | One of her schoolfriends had married a Bermudan and wrote in the most glowing terms about the life there . |
| 20 | In 1311–12 , for example , the consuls and commune of Montclar-d'Agenais told Edward II that their bailli had seized a gang of robbers and murderers , one of whom was ‘ called Burd , natural son of … |
| 21 | Such an innocent river , for all that it knew a secret , for all that one of its stones had put a man out of sight of the sunset ! |
| 22 | His lips had shown a passion and need that had equalled her own but he had not pressed it any further . |
| 23 | His roles have meant a lot of work in ‘ behind the scenes matters ’ , looking after the systems that underpin the Company 's computer facilities . |
| 24 | His parents had detected a smell in the room over the past few weeks and had noticed a damp patch . |
| 25 | Ludens knew that Marcus had spent part of his childhood in London but could elicit no information about this interesting period , except that his parents had had a flat in Knightsbridge . |
| 26 | His parents had left a village in the mountains near the Albanian border just after the Civil War . |
| 27 | And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper . |
| 28 | At an early stage the archbishop and ten of his suffragans had signed a declaration that they intended no prejudice to the king by their support for the reforms , and the Ordainers themselves swore to work for the benefit of church , king and people . |
| 29 | At least one of his grandparents had made a career on the frontier ; and in The Cantos this forebear , Thaddeus Coleman Pound , makes several entries , always with an encouraging flourish on the drums . |
| 30 | ‘ However — and it is a BUT in capital letters — it 's as deplorable as it 's inevitable that because he happens to be a movie star his actions have drawn a torrent of destructive attention upon the entire industry with a free-for-all splurge in 57 varieties of scandal , malicious tongue-wagging and dirt . ’ |