Example sentences of "[noun sg] they have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a tough job for the judges , but after tasting thousands of cups of tea they 've announced a winner . |
| 2 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 3 | Under the 1944 Education Act they have had a duty to provide this for numerous categories of children : the blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially hearing , physically handicapped , delicate , maladjusted , epileptic , educationally subnormal , children with speech defects , and the autistic . |
| 4 | Yes , yes , now that group have come into me and two weeks after they 've worn the hairpiece they 've got a job after two and half years of not finding work , so what do you say to that ? |
| 5 | At this present moment they 've got a blackout in Berlin and I bet it 's snowing . |
| 6 | In the video they 've used a combination of modern animation techniques and her classic drawings . |
| 7 | Masters of their art , Stock , Aitken and Waterman realised that day they had unearthed a talent that could outshine anything , even in their empire . |
| 8 | We 've got a got a minute or two some some friends of ours were saying the other day they 've booked a holiday at er very near the Por Portagil Portuguese Spanish border on the South Do you know it ? |
| 9 | He says ; Every child has had some training and they show me that they know what it is all about and at the end of the day they have saved a life . |
| 10 | Last week they 'd shared a bottle of champagne to celebrate the birth of the seventh grandchild . |
| 11 | When we 're using the fax facility and we get a series of policy numbers and a problem coming through to us erm that 's not so bad cos that 's being amalgamated by the branch secretaries , when it 's going back , and we do it on the same one single fax going back , they 're sitting there snipping up individual replies , you know putting individual replies into consultants ' baskets unless they photocopy the whole sheet in which case they 've got a confidentiality problem . |
| 12 | London Irish thought they 'd scored a try here … the ref tho rightly gave a knock on … and the cherry and whites rolled on to take the lead with a penalty from Martin Roberts … another penalty apiece made it six three to Gloucester at half-time … but they deserved more … the forwards were fired up but so too was the exiles defence which took a fair old hammering … the turning point came at the start of the second half when referee David Matthews awarded Gloucester a penalty try … |
| 13 | In the meantime they had lost a Sea Fury . |
| 14 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 15 | In pursuit of this goal they have developed a number of specialized techniques . |
| 16 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 17 | Now if your person were to say come round , said it 's the first time they 've had a fit you get , call an ambulance , it may be epilepsy but it could be anything else , it could erm be , be the start of er something else in the brain because that 's all an epileptic fit is , it 's an electrical impulse , nobody actually knows why or when or how it 's caused , but it happens erm , but above all be very , very nice to your casualties , they 'll want to get up and they 'll run away , they want to get out , especially if it 's outside , because they 're embarrassed by it . |
| 18 | For a long time they had led a life of measured grace ; regular sedate walks with their mistress , superb food in ample quantities and long snoring sessions on the rugs and armchairs . |
| 19 | By this time they had purchased a building which had been I think a a bank or a savings bank or something at Street in Porthmadog . |
| 20 | Though this is the first time they have mentioned a gun . |
| 21 | What has happened is that on conversion they have had a host of non-Christian friends . |
| 22 | On election day , in June 1987 , 84 per cent of Mirror readers ( and only slightly less Guardian and Telegraph/Times/ Financial Times readers ) voted for the party they had preferred a year earlier , in the summer of 1986 . |