Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone . |
| 2 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |
| 3 | 22 year old Lebanese chauffuer Ali Choukeir has appeared at the Palais de Justice charged with involuntary manslaughter . |
| 4 | His is a fury fanned by insensitive press coverage of homosexuality and the Aids epidemic ; the director best known for films like Caravaggio has leapt at the opportunity of reacting against ‘ licensed queer bashing ’ . |
| 5 | She spoke to reporters from a ‘ secret location ’ at the weekend , describing how Mrs Mandela had arrived at the house early in the morning . |
| 6 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 7 | As Thorfinn had done at the start of his reign , in Fife . |
| 8 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 9 | Vesa had jumped at the idea . |
| 10 | DC Curnow has stayed at the house to keep an eye on Glynn . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll leave out some of my clothes to replace those , ’ Susan said , gesturing towards the clothes Maggie had acquired at The Haven . |
| 12 | Sharpe had stopped at the ford to let the horses drink . |
| 13 | Section three , goes in there , and then I 'll give you your induction report back , which Alan 's got at the moment , and that goes in section three , and that 's fantastic eh , so let's have a nibble something to eat . |
| 14 | Although the USSR has hinted at the possibility of cooperation with the GCC over issues of Gulf security , its attitude to this body , especially over GCC plans for coordinated security arrangements , remained negative in the early 1980s . |
| 15 | Marrakesh has long been a winter watering hole for the rich , the chic and the famous and the Shah had arrived at the height of the tourist season . |
| 16 | Alyssia had looked at the girl in amazement , beginning to feel disproportionately angry at this unexpected anticlimax . |
| 17 | Con had jumped at the chance of taking Cedric and the pair had apparently settled in happily together . |
| 18 | Hugh and Prior Robert had arrived at the priory late in the evening , paid their respects to the prior , attended Vespers to do reverence to the saints of the foundation , Saints Oswald and Wulstan , and taken Herluin and his attendants into their confidence about the loss , or at the very least the misplacement , of Saint Winifred 's reliquary ; with a sharp eye , at least on Hugh 's part , for the way the news was received . |
| 19 | The one he and Julia had found at the asylum did n't seem to have too much connection with the one Theodora had mentioned she had come across at St Saviour 's . |
| 20 | At an extraordinary plenum of the Tadjik CP central committee on Feb. 16 Makhkamov 's resignation was refused and Vaadad was criticized for contributing to the destabilization of the situation in Tadjikistan ; indeed a special commission was set up to investigate allegations that a group of Tadjik communists allied to Vaadad had plotted at the height of the Dushanbe unrest to seize power from Khayeyev 's government and install as Prime Minister Buri Karimov , currently a Deputy Prime Minister but also the Vaadad chairman . |
| 21 | All night long the thought of his being hand in glove with Harry Martin had lingered at the back of her mind . |
| 22 | However , love or no love , Martin had arrived at the gallery one morning , with his small baby in his arms , and the news that his wife had left him , and the clear expectation of help of some kind from Clelia . |
| 23 | Girls often had gifts like that , Rosalind Swain had said at the time , especially in adolescence . |
| 24 | Colt had laughed at the Captain and the men around him , laughed until they took out their failure on him with the most savage beating he had ever received . |
| 25 | Funar had ordered at the end of March that Hungarian or dual language signs in Cluj-Napoca be removed . |
| 26 | He 'd demanded a man in charge of each wire and Rose had baulked at the expense . |
| 27 | Ellen Wilkinson , for two tragically short years until her death in the frozen February of 1947 , sat in the place which Butler had created at the Ministry of Education . |
| 28 | Harry had tensed at the criticism , but Scarface laughed and the whole bar started roaring at Bull 's subtlety and wit . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , von Frisch had looked at the honeybee dance more closely . |
| 30 | President Bush has arrived at the summit out-of-step with other world leaders on environmental protection measures . |