Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High-flying Currie has completed a course in parachuting , and he 's due to make a charity jump at Garvagh today , when he hopes to raise up to £1,000 to help the fight to save the South Tyrone Hospital 's maternity unit from closure . |
| 2 | I agreed with him , even if Posh Porky had won a scholarship to some place called St Paul 's , which in any case was miles away in Hammersmith . |
| 3 | Old Jim had looked a bit got down , he thought ; I 'll cheer them up , and we 'll all have a drink . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid Judd has had an accident — in an aeroplane . |
| 5 | Racking the brains because a friend had fallen on hard times — the engine of his old VW has dropped a valve . |
| 6 | Caledonian Macbrayne has signed a contract for a new fifteen million pound ferry which will create up to seventy new jobs . |
| 7 | BRITISH Telecom has begun an exercise to stamp out overcharging amid reports that telephone bills may have been inflated by tens of millions of pounds a year , a company spokesman said yesterday . |
| 8 | There are over a million fax users in the UK , and British Telecom has published a directory of UK users . |
| 9 | But in Molly O'Finn of Bo'ness Old Fishfinger has found a soul mate … |
| 10 | Before it was light Chola had lit a fire , and was frying puris and boiling a small pan of rice for Sigarup to eat before he left . |
| 11 | Allied Dunbar has developed a method of clarifying your personal financial position . |
| 12 | HISTORIC Scotland has produced a draft management plan for the 1990s for Holyrood Park , Edinburgh 's famous ‘ green lung ’ . |
| 13 | Even that spasmo Kezia has to have a wee . |
| 14 | Central Liverpool has become a district with many offices and some of the insurance companies have grown to do general insurance business in all parts of the country . |
| 15 | Wide-awake Vincent has snatched a maximum of four hours a night shut-eye since he was born 3 ½ years ago . |
| 16 | Er little Ronnie 's had a baby girl |
| 17 | Behind the creation stood the familiar figure of Lloyd George who in the previous December had formed a coalition with himself as Prime Minister to replace the previous government of Herbert Asquith which had become discredited by criticisms of its conduct of the war . |
| 18 | The People 's Rights newspaper reported on Feb. 20 that the Little Hural had passed a law permitting foreign companies to explore and recover Mongolia 's estimated 400 million tonnes of oil reserves . |
| 19 | That little Seeders has got a face like a dead potato ! |
| 20 | The leader of the Bosnian Serbs has given an assurance to the United Nations that they 'll stop firing on non-military targets in Sarajevo . |
| 21 | The announcement represented a victory for the Civil Liberties Organization , which the previous October had released a report drawing attention to the appalling conditions in Nigeria 's prisons and claiming that hundreds of prisoners had died of malnutrition or untreated diseases . |
| 22 | ‘ Black Will has taken a fancy to your little brother — what think you of that ! |
| 23 | David Murray became chairman at Ibrox in 1988 and , asked about the Liverpool manager 's record in the transfer market , said : ‘ Sure Graeme has spent a lot of cash but he 's sold well as well . |
| 24 | Seen through her mother 's eyes , far-off England had seemed a land of dreams and adventure . |
| 25 | Izvestiya of Oct. 19 reported that prompt action by the town Soviet in Ust-Kamenogorsk in eastern Kazakhstan had prevented an escalation into large-scale violence following an incident on Oct. 14-15 , when visiting Chechens were suspected of murdering four Kazakhs . |
| 26 | Black Michael has had a letter from Zenda , so perhaps he knows already . |
| 27 | The flaming Maryland had crashed a mile or so North of Dingli . |
| 28 | Now they were heard to ‘ twitter with execration ’ at the news that the Nazi SA had seized a number of Jews in the town of Worms , thrown them into a pigsty and beaten them . |
| 29 | CAPEL-Cure Myers has launched a service which monitors the opportunities to invest in Business Expansion Scheme companies before the end of the current tax year . |
| 30 | Uneven demographic distribution , diplomatic and military considerations , the location of major industries , commercial relations , cultural influences and the centralization of political and administrative power in either St Petersburg or Moscow ( ancient and modern ) have all helped to ensure that cis-Uralian Russia has enjoyed a near-monopoly of European and North American scholarship in this field . |