Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That type may then be broken up or ‘ distributed ’ , if the publisher has decided to limit the first edition to a stated number , or if there is no demand for additional copies .
2 Dr A.J. Watson , former chairman , has offered to arrange the next Burns Supper .
3 He has got to take the next action , it 's up to him now .
4 A small firm in Horsham called Stonefield Omicron Electronics has agreed to sell the fourth version of the computer , the CLIP.4 .
5 ICTU has agreed to include the first point in their Agenda at their Biennial Conference .
6 We are delighted to report that Lady More has agreed to become the first president of the Society and has given us a most generous donation in memory of her husband .
7 Yet in both types of narrative the basic question the writer has to ask to establish the next unit of text is " What happened next ? "
8 Curtis Strange has described addressing the second shot as like preparing to play with the feet on separate steps of a staircase .
9 To get stuck into Part Two you do n't have to have completed the first instalment , but you DO need to have the password .
10 Unhappily , many of the 700 subscribers must have failed to deliver the second cash instalment and take up their copies when the book was published in 1765 .
11 He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection .
12 They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's .
13 His most bitter disappointment came when the music entrepreneur Phil Spector pulled back from financing a screenplay Hopper had written called The Last Movie ( it was eventually produced in 1970 ) about Hollywood 's exploitation and destruction of South American Indians .
14 It is not natural to work through the night shift , I 've worked it , there is no way of starting a week without your Er I 've slept a night before , somewhere at the weekend , when the day comes , but you 've got to go the next night to work .
15 ‘ Oh yes — only I 've got to catch the last bus home and it leaves at a quarter to eleven … ’
16 you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it
17 Strach said before the match ‘ if we get the first goal , then there 's only gon na be one winner ’ — fair enough , but you 've got to get the first goal .
18 I 've got to get the last train home .
19 I 've got to , I 've got to admit the second half they were lucky our goalie produced four brilliant saves in about three minutes
20 She had had to work the first Sunday .
21 Council expressed its appreciation to all those members who had helped to make the 150th anniversary celebrations a success .
22 The Chelsea goalkeeper had agreed to join the First Division club as cover for Alan Knight .
23 Ruth had volunteered to cook the first meal .
24 Once the Fourth Republic had refused to imitate the Third Republic by committing suicide , de Gaulle had to face the problem of sustaining the Rassemblement 's momentum .
25 When I say it was a Government decision I 'm not speaking politically because whoever had 've won the last election whether it be Liberal Democrats Labour or Conservative all three parties were committed to reorganizing local government .
26 I had chosen to join the 10th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , and the preliminary training evenings were geared towards physical exercise , getting us ready for ‘ P Company ’ , the tests which every aspiring paratrooper , territorial or regular , had to pass before being able to wear his coveted maroon beret .
27 Fran glared at him , cursing the fact that he had managed to get the last word on her programme !
28 Note was taken that Ned had failed to advise the twelfth floor of Barley 's drunken breakout after his return from Leningrad .
29 To compliment and complete the Scandinavian experience we ‘ ve been having this winter , The Whitworth Art Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum have collaborated to organise the first exhibition here of Norway 's most outstanding landscape painters , Johan christian Dahl ( 1788–1857 ) and Thomas Fearnley ( 1802–42 ) .
30 GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out .
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