Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since replacing the former prime minister , Bob Hawke , in an inter-party challenge 14 months ago , Mr Keating has pledged to set up a panel of eminent Australians to study how the country could become a republic , with an Australian head of state , by 2001 . |
| 2 | Agassi has managed to sign up a licensing deal with Tecmagik and this looks like being the long-awaited definitive tennis game on Sega systems . |
| 3 | The Church of Scotland had agreed to make up a proportion of the shortfall equal to the proportion of its members present . |
| 4 | All these activities suddenly came to an end when Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists after the USSR had tried to take over the KMT . |
| 5 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 6 | Robert had tried to open up the subject of Hasan several times , but Mr Malik seemed far less concerned about him than he had been . |
| 7 | Gen. Asparukhov alleged that Mishev had attempted to set up a secret arms deal with Macedonia . |
| 8 | Once Duncan had managed to fire off a report and stop his watch-replacement from stumbling on the terrorists , he had settled down to keep an eye on the gang . |
| 9 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 10 | Sophie was always reckless ; and Sam had wanted to blow up a train . |
| 11 | Already Quentin had begun to tidy up the garden for the Easter Fete . |
| 12 | In the first year of operation , NAB has begun to set up the essential third tier of its structure , namely study groups to examine and report upon specific subject areas and aspects of its operation . |
| 13 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 14 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor in Cloverbay had intended to lay down a rule that no order could be made under section 236 if the purpose for which the office-holder claimed reasonably to require information sought included obtaining information the receipt of which would go beyond a reconstitution of knowledge which the company once had and was entitled in law to possess . |
| 15 | Perry 's manager Sally Dickinson said at one point Mr Glenn had tried to switch on a light to raise the alarm but had been threatened with violence . |
| 16 | Commonwealth leaders meeting in Cyprus have agreed to set up a special mission to lobby key capitals holding out on agreement on the GATT trade negotiations . |
| 17 | But at the word ‘ walk ’ Sally had started putting up a tremendous performance , and the party broke up . |
| 18 | ITTO had intended to build up a consensus towards achieving full sustainability in tropical forestry by the year 2000 . |
| 19 | France and Italy have agreed to set up a sanctuary in which dolphins will be protected from drift-net fishing . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Mars has pledged to keep up the pressure on Walls , with no let-up in its campaign to woolovers of ice cream . |
| 21 | Pitt had refused to hold back a single soldier intended for service overseas or to recall any vessels serving on distant stations , but he ordered a further 34 sail of the line to be commissioned and , during that dangerous summer , increased the number of seamen serving in home waters from 18,000 to 35,000 . |
| 22 | The miners themselves were deeply divided , not least because Arthur Scargill had refused to carry out a ballot prior to calling a strike . |
| 23 | Aung San had planned to set up a government at Moulmein , but was put off . |
| 24 | Benjamin Titford had managed to clamber up the social ladder , as we have seen — rising , in the process , higher than his impoverished cousins in Frome had done . |
| 25 | Reports in early March had indicated that the IAEA had sought to play down the significance of a recent report submitted to the UN in which it was claimed that Iraq was offering " better co-operation " to IAEA inspectors . |
| 26 | None of their three sons Roy , Robert and Clive have decided to carry on the family tradition . |
| 27 | Scottish Roman Catholic priest James Morrow has pledged to take out a private prosecution for murder against the doctors . |
| 28 | Since taking over as Brazil 's manager on 6 January , Sebastiano Lazaroni has attempted to pull off a transformation that has hitherto seemed impossible in Brazilian football . |
| 29 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 30 | Lesley had begun to gather up the remaining cups , but at the mention of Charlotte 's name she put down the tray abruptly , and turned with a startled smile . |