Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
| 2 | — Graham Robb , Tory candidate for hartlepool , said a three-year-old girl whose father claims she has waited over a year for surgery is to get her operation . |
| 3 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 4 | With the help of producer Mike McEvoy — who produced a track on the current Soul II Soul LP — she has put together a video promo instead of the usual demo cassettes or industry showcases . |
| 5 | Plenty of work , perhaps , but the serious student will find it intensely rewarding , and the newcomer may be encouraged to explore this difficult field ; he will certainly be well armed against the problems once he has digested even a fraction of the mountain of information and enthusiasm contained therein . |
| 6 | He has played only a handful of games since breaking down with back trouble in St Lucia while touring his native West Indies with England in 1990 . |
| 7 | Otherwise , he has provided both a reason which is in our sense final and a counter-consideration which outweighs it . |
| 8 | John Ambrose should be well known to visitors to recent Woodworker Shows , as he has won rather a lot of medals in the turning competitions . |
| 9 | Straw plaiting was a widespread cottage industry in and around the Chiltern Hills , but it has left scarcely a sign on the landscape , for it never became a factory industry . |
| 10 | Certainly over the last quarter of a century it has changed quite a lot . |
| 11 | Midland Montagu , the biggest gilt market-maker , reckons that it has financed nearly a quarter of its needs already , with just six weeks of the financial year gone . |