Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time for Eliot is just after the passing of ‘ the dark dove with the flickering tongue ’ , a German plane which has left behind a city every bit as much of a waste land as the earlier poem 's London , though now the ‘ crowd ’ has gone , leaving only the speaker who , ‘ before the urban dawn wind ’ , communicates with the ghost . |
| 2 | Since August 12th Mr Hussein has repeated like a gramophone the refrain that he will not budge from Kuwait until Israel gives up the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 3 | But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening . |
| 4 | This may be reflected in the faunal changes and may have brought to an end the stable conditions represented by the pure quartzites that extend all the way from the Welsh borderland to Morocco . |
| 5 | The latter , a somewhat shadowy figure in the biographical sources , is chiefly noted in the history of the time for having authorized with a fetva the execution of Seyh Bedreddin Simavi in 823/1420 ( ? ) . |
| 6 | At one stage his entire family of fourteen were reported as having lived on a dollar a week ! |
| 7 | ‘ I told the doctor I had sat opposite a man the night before and had to mentally flick through every male name I knew in order to locate his . |
| 8 | I told him I had sat opposite a man the night before and had to mentally flick through every male name I knew in order to locate his ; ‘ George , Andrew , Jack … |
| 9 | The Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( HDUR ) held no post , as it had stipulated as a condition the creation of a Ministry for National Minorities . |
| 10 | In that case a farmer had bought from a dealer a towing coupling for his Land Rover . |
| 11 | Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio . |
| 12 | As such , Hitler had become in a way the projection of national aspirations to greatness which reached back into the imperial ambitions of the Wilhelmine era , and which in added strength under Nazism had found an echo among much of the German population , not least as a compensation for a far greyer reality . |
| 13 | I 've got that broken arm , which I had to put in a sling every time . |
| 14 | The world was a less " moral " place than it had been before the war : Germany and Japan had brought to a crisis the sickness which infected civilization , but their collapse had not cured it but left it raging everywhere . " |
| 15 | Queen Anne died a year after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht , which had brought to an end a cycle of wars which , while primarily concerned with the balance of power in Europe , had given English governments an opportunity to take colonies away from other European countries and increase their empire by annexation as well as by settlement . |
| 16 | Once it had become apparent to the farmer that the locking mechanism was broken , that had brought to an end the seller 's obligation that the coupling continue to be reasonably fit for its purpose . |
| 17 | The EPLF offensive against Massawa , beginning on Feb. 8 , had brought to an end the unofficial ceasefire observed by the front since the unsuccessful coup attempt against President Mengistu Haile Mariam in April 1989 [ see p. 36646 ] . |
| 18 | A statement by the Justice Department on March 2 said that press reports had created an " untrue impression " that an announcement in Parliament by Justice Minister Coetsee on Feb. 26 concerning the carrying out of the death sentence had brought to an end the moratorium on executions . |
| 19 | The publication on Aug. 1 of drafts of three variants of the electoral bill had brought to an end an opposition blockade of Georgia 's main rail link with the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | oh we 've put in a making the interview forms , just having the Welsh translation on the top . |
| 21 | Two adolescent girls in New Zealand had killed with a brick the mother of one of them just because they wanted to . |
| 22 | as if he had triggered off a signal the doorbell rang . |
| 23 | One of our sponsors , Hills ( Medway ) Ltd. of Bromley , have offered as a donation a new ‘ Living ’ Gas Fire , fully approved and tested worth £210 . |
| 24 | As you can see we 've got three children who will be going to the school and I do n't want them to think they have to get in a car every time they travel anywhere . |