Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [prep] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , Farbrace found his way blocked by Steve Marsh 's superior batting and duly followed ‘ Nobby ’ to Lord 's , where the same handicap has consigned him to 2nd XI obscurity . |
| 2 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 3 | But obviously if you 're going to do that you 'll have to do it during next week some time On the other hand I could give you a list of five topics and you could choose one . |
| 4 | Briggs , in his first race , matched the time of the senior riders on his opening lap and his finishing time would have put him in fourth place in the senior event after three laps . |
| 5 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 6 | Many tenants claim to have lost everything in last week 's storms , as sewage contaminated floodwaters surged into their homes . |
| 7 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 8 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 9 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 10 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 11 | But that was only because she had eaten nothing since last night and had been so furious this morning about her father 's gall in writing that damnably cheerful letter . |
| 12 | She had wanted it since last Christmas when they went to the pantomime in Dublin and she had seen the girls on the stage dancing in pink velvet dresses like this . |
| 13 | He had not forgotten , either , the story Bartolomeo Zorzi had regaled them with last night , and which he supposed had now been repeated to Nicholas . |
| 14 | The systematic putting together of parts to a purposeful design is something we know and understand , for we have experienced it at first hand , even if only with our childhood Meccano or Erector set . |