Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] have [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 As many of our readers are non-members we have included a page ‘ What is the NCT ’ .
3 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 .
4 Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers .
5 B : ‘ For about nine months we have had a succession of builders , surveyors and decorators trooping in and out .
6 In some areas we have measured a contamination which is much bigger than in the Minimata incident in the Japan .
7 In both cases you have to find a deposit , and over a period of time pay off what is , in effect , a loan .
8 As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’
9 In the last few years I have done a lot of float fishing from a punt for big bream and I can state quite categorically that , if it is done correctly , it can be a most deadly method of catching bream .
10 For the past seven years I have run a job share register on behalf of the British Paediatric Association .
11 During the last two years I have spent a total of 15 minutes a day with my son 's diaper bucket and can deal quickly with even the most challenging mess .
12 Er we 've been in , ten years in this shop and er , for those ten years I have experienced a lot of er difference in the attitudes of Muslim women as well .
13 In the past two days we have heard a lot about students .
14 ‘ But within the last few days we have received a letter from our insurance assessor that gives us fresh hope .
15 During the past five years we have identified a total of 12 patients with endoscopically confirmed chronic DU disease unassociated with current or recent H pylori infection ( Table 1 ) .
16 For the past 4 years we have paid a subscription of £12 per annum and unless we can continue at this rate , we shall have to consider whether we wish to remain a member .
17 And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own .
18 Figure 3.4 At birth , herring gull chicks will peck equally at models of adult bills of either herring or laughing gulls ; but after seven days they have developed a preference for the model of the adult of their own species .
19 In the past few days they have detected a slide in that support .
20 So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year .
21 To help you keep in mind the five main techniques we have invented a mnemonic , MACRO , which stands for Memory , Aims , Concentration , Review and Organisation .
22 For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it .
23 He had earlier held the blade to the throat of shopkeeper 's nephew Gursawak Singh , 19 , and snarled : ‘ Tell the police I have got a hostage . ’
24 ( With handing-in on paper for large courses we have found a need to issue paper receipts to help resolve cases where students ' work has allegedly been lost or mislaid . )
25 Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect .
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