Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to its flat landscape , Norfolk has long had a reputation for its fantastic light quality , a phenomenon that has been captured to great effect by many painters . |
| 2 | ‘ Perks has never had a birthday like it ! ’ she said . |
| 3 | Poor old Scott has n't had a go yet ! |
| 4 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 5 | ‘ I share with David an ’ he 's bound to keep comin' in to see what we'se doin' and Edward has n't had a room of his own ever . |
| 6 | Jeff did n't have a chance to answer . |
| 7 | Except Flack did n't have a technique . |
| 8 | Is he aware that , when the dioxin-contaminated milk was transferred in the summer from Bolsover to Severn-Trent for disposal , Severn-Trent did not have a licence ? |
| 9 | His last remark to me was that if there was any jiggery-pokery about candles he would n't be at all surprised if Jefferson did n't have a hand in it . |
| 10 | As the packaging suggests , Rex does indeed have a problem . |
| 11 | Currently the United States does not have a droit de suite , a law that mandates that artists receive a percentage of the price of a work each time it changes hands . |
| 12 | ‘ Prince Edward does not have a butler , ’ was the reply . |
| 13 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 14 | Byfleet does n't have a premiere football team does n't mean to say |
| 15 | Léonie went over to have a look . |
| 16 | Point four erm sentences are made up of noun phrases and verb phrases those phrases can be composed of intransitive verbs standing alone , or transitive verbs and objects so you can have four , the structure what sounds like Florence smiled actually has a structure as on the handout in the sentence composed of a noun phrase and a verb phrase , the noun phrase contains a single noun Florence and the verb phrase contains a single verb smile or you can have something like four two , Florence teased Dougal and there the verb phrase contains the verb teased and another noun phrase containing the single noun Dougal . |
| 17 | And yesterday Mick did n't have a clue who walked off with his pride and joy . |
| 18 | In the context of the May 1990 preliminary talks between the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the government [ see p. 37440 ] , two other notable encounters between the nationalist movement and the white establishment occurred in the same month : ( i ) on May 23 the ANC met liberal representatives of the business community in Johannesburg , during which ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela , in what was seen as an attempt to reassure investors , declared that the ANC did not have a blueprint for nationalization ; at the conclusion of the conference , with the former chairman of the company Anglo American , Gavin Relly , he emphasized the need to abolish institutionalized inequalities and to redistribute resources equally ; and ( ii ) on May 24 fighters from the ANC 's armed wing and members of the ANC national executive committee ( NEC ) met with retired and serving officers of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , military conscripts and , among others , members of the End Conscription Campaign at a conference in Lusaka , the Zambian capital ; these discussions included the structure and role of a post-apartheid defence force . |
| 19 | Lissa had n't had a photograph for me to flash , but had described him as looking ‘ a lot like you , Mr Quick , a lot like you ’ . |
| 20 | At the time of going to press , Sir Anthony had already had a series of strategy discussions with chief executive Dr Brian Eyre , as well as meetings with the DTI 's privatisation advisers , investment bankers Barclays De Zoete Wedd , and our own advisers , management consultants McKinseys and merchant bankers Lazard Brothers . |
| 21 | Once Dolly and Gertrude had been in the back row of the chorus at the Palladium , and Gertrude had even had a solo spot with a comic song … he had seen a photo of her somewhere as Burlington Bertie … |
| 22 | Russia does n't have a monopoly on unwanted teenage pregnancies but one statistic that does shock is the high abortion rate . |
| 23 | And SPUC does not have a monopoly on horror . |
| 24 | This country was bankrupt , and had to borrow money from the United States of America to keep going , and er , Russia had just had a revolution and was still in chaos . |
| 25 | ‘ No Villanuova has ever had a job , that 's why , ’ he replied as if he were talking to a child . |
| 26 | Left : Collectair has long had a fascination with the magazine Tee Emm . |
| 27 | Blackpool fans even have a chant which runs : ‘ We are the Nutters — we come from the sea ’ . |
| 28 | The Luftwaffe came back to have a go at Chelsea and South Fulham , and above the noise of their engines we heard , for the first time ‘ Salt Peter Bluey , ’ as our nurses called him , give them hell 's delight with his raucous bark . |
| 29 | The late Ian Fleming did not have a monopoly in tongue-in-cheek , humorous adventures about secret agents , but a novelist might commit the tort of passing-off if he changes his name to Ian Fleming or uses the name James Bond or the 007 code in his novel . |
| 30 | In those days , Robinson was in the side mainly because he was a willing workhorse at a time when Yorkshire did not have a surfeit of senior fast bowlers . |