Example sentences of "had receive a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Van Cliburn 's party the previous week , each guest had received a gold watch with the insignia of the competition inscribed on its dial . |
| 2 | Ron Barton , who had received a bollocking from his editor ( ‘ where was yer , you prick ? ’ ) had been given instructions to raise the offer to 10,000 . |
| 3 | Radio France Internationale reported the same day that it had received a communication from the leaders of three Togolese opposition parties protesting that ( the above ) key portfolios had gone to members of Eyadema 's party , the Togolese People 's Rally ( RPT ) , and calling on the HCR not to ratify the list . |
| 4 | His grandfather had received a baronetcy for loyalty to the Crown in the Civil War . |
| 5 | The West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit found recently that , while part-time work was increasing in their area , women were actually being paid a lower percentage of local full-time wages than they had received a decade ago . |
| 6 | The Chairman of British Airways , for example , had received a pay increase of 117 per cent compared with the 6 per cent awarded to the company 's lowest paid workers . |
| 7 | ‘ Collier gave her the necessary sum , and when she had received a receipt of payment from the agent , he duly robbed the agent of the money … |
| 8 | But the management at the Christian Salvesen warehouse at Warrington had received a tip-off and police were keeping watch . |
| 9 | Of the four transplant candidates who were alive at the end of the study period , one with primary biliary cirrhosis had been referred and had received a liver transplant . |
| 10 | In February 1942 , Captain Oswald Benton , a welfare officer , Royal Artillery , wrote to the county treasurer on behalf of one of his soldiers whose wife had had an operation at St. Peter 's , and who had received a bill for £1.4s.0d. ( which included £1.1s.0d. for the anaesthetic fee ) : |
| 11 | He had received a bill for £10.12s.6d. which he respectfully offered to pay off at 30s. a week . |
| 12 | The writer had received a bill from St. Peter 's Hospital for £10.5s.6d. : |
| 13 | So , it was well-received when , at our last club meeting our chairman Ray Hammond informed us that he had received a telephone call from an archaeological unit director . |
| 14 | He told me that the telephonist at the police station had received a telephone call from a man saying that an escaped prisoner , a Lawrence er was to be found at er the home of a David and that the er Lawrence was in possession of a hand gun . |
| 15 | The RJO also confirmed that they had received a video tape from Israel of an interview carried out recently with Shaikh Abdel-Karim Obeid . |
| 16 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 17 | The information was collated in the form of four age and sex tables for each therapeutic group and covered the number of patients who had received a prescription , the number of items issued as acute prescriptions , the number of items issued as repeat prescriptions , and total prescription costs . |
| 18 | Undoubtedly , in March 1914 , nine days after his thirty-seventh birthday , at one of the lowest ebbs in his fortune ( but soon after he had received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund ) , Thomas speculated in fictional form upon another path his life might have taken if he had left grammar school at sixteen and followed his father 's plan of a career in the Civil Service . |
| 19 | The presence or severity of the lesions contributing to the anaemia was difficult to interpret at endoscopy in 43 of the patients as they had received a course of H 2 antagonists ( n=18 ) or had reduced or stopped aspirin or NSAIDs ( n=32 ) , or both , before the first hospital attendence . |
| 20 | However , he made inquiries and was told by his bank that he was not eligible for such a loan because in the past he had received a Government grant . |
| 21 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |
| 22 | Jacques Glassmann said he had received a phone call from a Marseille official and a player before the game , which Valenciennes lost 1–0 . |
| 23 | Sutherland had said that he was the owner of the house and had received a phone call to say that youngsters had broken in and were vandalising it . |
| 24 | The press could provide little enlightenment because all newspapers had received a D-Notice asking them not to print any details about the background to the case . |
| 25 | More than two-thirds of those aged 60 or over when interviewed had received a redundancy payment of £3,000 or more . |
| 26 | And I believe er , at this meeting it was revealed that Scottish Homes had received a tender from the West Lothian District Council for this work over a period of ten years for a figure which comes to four hundred thousand pound which , apparently , was the cheapest tender ! |
| 27 | On May 13 it was reported that Taylor 's forces had received a cargo of military equipment from Libya through the port of Buchanan , and that the rebels were freely using supply routes through Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 28 | Stevie had received a tip that he was to be featured . |
| 29 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — The Czechoslovak dissident playwright Vaclav Havel said he had received a message from Poland 's Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , that he would work for the release of two Czechoslovak human rights campaigners , Jan Carnogursky and Miroslav Kusy . |
| 30 | Nails had received a message from Mr Sylvester that the Social Services representative wanted to see him at four o'clock . |