Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN unusual opportunity has come up to buy an English vineyard . |
| 2 | Admittedly , one has to stoop down to smell a low shrub , but that is not such a problem for most of us as it is to struggle through to the middle of a bed . |
| 3 | POLAR adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has set off leading a five-man British team attempting to be the first to walk to the north geomagnetic pole without dogs or air-drops . |
| 4 | American Trust , after a poor first half , has bounced back to report a 26 per cent leap in net asset value per share for the full year to 265.2p , from last year 's 210.3p . |
| 5 | But there is a solution — otherwise Helen would not have gone on to experience a triumphant life . |
| 6 | Having started off making a big success with a little film , they ended up spending increasingly larger sums of money on bigger films until they had expended so much of their capital they could only go under . |
| 7 | as if that were an omen , the race itself went just as badly and after nine laps Jackie had to come in to change a deflating tyre . |
| 8 | Joan had turned round to take a last look at the prince . |
| 9 | Moldavia 's Supreme Soviet adopted a sovereignty declaration on June 23 , but in the absence of deputies representing the Russian and other minority communities , who had walked out following a stormy debate on the issue . |
| 10 | The Rose-Noelle was well-equipped as Mr Glennie had set off to start a new life cruising the South Pacific . |
| 11 | Josey had popped round to spend a consoling hour with her while husband Charlie watched football on TV . |
| 12 | After The Strutters , he had gone on to play a leading part in another sitcom . |
| 13 | Then he had gone off to have a full breakfast in the canteen . |
| 14 | Without any hesitation , he had gone off to confront a possible intruder . |
| 15 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 16 | He had started out to make a rough count of the houses to be visited and then let his thoughts drift into a reverie of his own old home , the far tropical look of the mountain skyline beyond Loch Arkaig on the rare hot days . |
| 17 | Denied a dividend , shareholders had to cough up to meet a daunting 903 billion lire rights issue . |
| 18 | ‘ The facts you have set out make a sorry tale indeed . ’ |
| 19 | The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and PR Sprays have teamed up to produce a new booklet targeted at people approaching retirement and who believe that retirement means a life as a couch potato in front of the telly . |
| 20 | The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and PR Sprays have teamed up to produce a new booklet targeted at people approaching retirement and who believe that retirement means a life as a couch potato in front of the telly . |
| 21 | Hon. Members might say that that was fair enough , but the Government have gone on to use a bizarre and irrelevant definition of urban and rural . |