Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 2 | I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention . |
| 3 | During the hot summers I 've had a lot of lettuce and tomato with maybe a bit of fruit . |
| 4 | There 's one happening today in ten minutes I 've got a car waiting outside |
| 5 | Sure enough , within a couple of minutes I had raised a trucker . |
| 6 | In the past six months I 've worn a pair for a variety of purposes , from rock climbing to trekking , from gardening to pubbing and they 're still presentable . |
| 7 | In higher grade cases , some Down 's people have undergone operations , either at their own or their parents ' instigation , to alter the physical characteristics which have become a stigma for them . |
| 8 | What he had n't mentioned was that we would be dining out in restaurants which had attracted a nod from Michelin , a faint damn from Gault-Millau or a paragraph of wet-dream prose in a British Sunday . |
| 9 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 10 | Well one would have thought so , but I said to er Mrs you see , about the minibus , no not the minibus , the M S bus being available and , I said the problem was or maybe that we 'd have to have drivers who have had a P S V licence , or what they call it ? |
| 11 | Just who was this attractive fifty-year-old woman with the warm brown eyes who had found a place in Dad 's heart so quickly ? |
| 12 | I know several inspectors who have refused a college scholarship , arguing that the time spent away from the force was time spent in structural limbo , and it has become almost a common adage that time away is time lost in ‘ the promotion stakes ’ . |
| 13 | So through that dismal day Hugh Templar sat at his kitchen table and pursued the adventures of a team of space-travellers who had discovered a world directly behind the sun , which was a mirror-image of our own Earth , with the same physical composition , but with a rather different kind of population , a race having strange and , I hoped , thought-provoking ideas about how to run their planet … |
| 14 | As many of our readers are non-members we have included a page ‘ What is the NCT ’ . |
| 15 | I 've got a picture of the way I want us to play , and if I can get that picture in 15 heads we 've got a chance of playing the way we want to . |
| 16 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 17 | British Airways legal director Merwyn Walker says : ‘ For several months we have endured a campaign of very serious allegations made against us by Virgin and Branson . |
| 18 | Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers . |
| 19 | B : ‘ For about nine months we have had a succession of builders , surveyors and decorators trooping in and out . |
| 20 | In Kee 's fine dark eyes he had read a call for help . |
| 21 | you think that if you work if you , if you think about it , in other words he has married a woman who is the mother of a wife of his father who he calls mother . |
| 22 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 23 | But in the last few months he 's had a lot to cope with following the death of his best friend in a road accident . |
| 24 | In the last few months it has introduced a mortgage rescue package and plans to use empty flats above shops in a further bit to get waiting lists down . |
| 25 | In the following paragraphs we look in more detail at the reasons which have encouraged a number of large manufacturers to start making or make greater use of temporary workers , at the terms and conditions under which these temporary workers are engaged , especially the forms of contract which are used , and at the characteristics of the temporary workers themselves . |
| 26 | A person with a limited vocabulary can usually manage well in familiar surroundings but may experience difficulty , for instance when filling in many of the forms which have become a feature of our modern society such as an insurance form . |
| 27 | This observation leads the team to suggest that quasar activity may have been triggered by galaxy-galaxy interactions which have stimulated a flow of material onto the nucleus of the larger galaxy , possibly the site of a black hole ( Astronomical Journal , vols 7 , p 1621 ) . |
| 28 | This stands in contrast to most consumer specialised magazine titles which have seen a fall in sales . |
| 29 | The historical value of their origin legend is open to question ; a national migration from the Baltic is unlikely , but the story may have been built out of traditions relating to specific groups which had played a part in the formation of the Gothic nation at various stages in its history . |
| 30 | The 45th meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) ended in Kyoto , Japan , in defeat for countries which had sought a lifting of the moratorium on commercial whaling [ see ED 70 ] . |