Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 's just that Peake 's trilogy Titus Groan , Gormenghast and Titus Alone has attracted such a cult following that Glass was apprehensive about doing justice to the novels in the eye of fans . |
| 2 | For its part , the city has made available a site overlooking the Rickmers shipyard and will cover all the costs of creating and equipping a sculpture park . |
| 3 | NATTA , The Network for Alternative Technology and Technology Assessment , in conjunction with the Open University Technology Policy Group , has initiated such a study aimed at establishing how aware people are of alternative and renewable sources of energy , in general . |
| 4 | UNLU would not have given such a warning had it not feared how the PLO outside might behave . |
| 5 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 6 | Then might you have seen many a horse running about the field with the saddle under his belly , and many a horseman in evil plight upon the ground . |
| 7 | Not only were most holdings too small to provide much work for hired labour , but the big villages that would have housed such a workforce did not exist . |
| 8 | The Intelligence Corps instructor who had taught him the trade would have had such a lock open with one twist but Maxim was out of practice and the lock was old and arthritic . |
| 9 | ‘ I would never have believed such a place existed , ’ she continued , glancing round the cave . |
| 10 | The sense of injustice created by such a system would inevitably work against its deterrent effectiveness ( Beccaria always acknowledged the importance of consent in producing compliance ; it is difficult to imagine how his version of the social contract would have allowed such a system to operate ) . |
| 11 | Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see . |
| 12 | Yes but as I 've I 've seen many a bus coming towards Norwood Gardens goes round the little and back out again . |
| 13 | And the wise old bird , who had seen many a bully brought low in the twenty years since he was hatched , clicked his beak and closed his eyes . |
| 14 | I 'm afraid I ca n't stop long ’ , or leave them with ‘ Well , I must go ; I 've got such a lot to do , . |
| 15 | Both Jay and Dionne had spent many a dawn listening to each other on the latest One and Only . |
| 16 | The USA in particular had urged such a cut to boost economic growth [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38170 ; 38314 ; 38321 ] . |
| 17 | As for the comment you attributed to me , that Britain has a budding romance with pressurised water reactor , I have always been an advocate of keeping government out of the bedroom and would , therefore , never have allowed such a comment to pass From my lips . |