Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A preliminary clipping usually takes place during the course of the knotting , when the weaver cuts the pile yarn to an approximate length after he or she has completed a few rows , but the final clipping is a highly skilled job , which , if badly done , can ruin months of work .
2 Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around .
3 He has played a few games and had received treatment .
4 He has run a million miles for us this season and will run another million , ’ he said .
5 With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug .
6 A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has got a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’
7 He has got a few bruises .
8 He has got a few bruises .
9 After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs .
10 Ayala Corp , the Philippines biggest conglomerate says it has signed a generalised telecommunications co-operation agreement with the state owned Singapore Telecom Ltd .
11 Meanwhile , AT&T said it has introduced a flexible benefits programme to help control health-care costs .
12 It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers .
13 In an attempt to forestall or derail Microsoft Corp 's likely objections to its WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface for running Windows applications under Unix , Sun Microsystems Inc is expected to reveal at the WABI launch tomorrow that it has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , its future plans for the Win16 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , this week 's issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports .
14 It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers ( CI No 2,160 ) .
15 It has opened a dozen shops with an intriguing new concept — pile it high and sell it cheap — and plans a chain of 200 .
16 It has opened a preliminary EOS Europe office and its EOS Korea has been in full operation for six months .
17 I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully .
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