Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , as Stephen Gallup has pointed out in a recent history of the festival , Karajan was the last surviving link with the traditions of the festival 's founding fathers . |
| 2 | As Jonathan Zeitlin has pointed out in a similar context , there are ways in which the product of an industry can affect the margin of manoeuvre of both employer and trade union . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) Your house has come up in a random sample of houses in this area and , if you are a full-time housewife , we would like you to tell us about your working day since ( 4 ) we believe that a survey of this subject would be of great value in helping all housewives . |
| 4 | D J Long , the vice-president of marketing who left Applix Inc two weeks ago , has turned up in a similar capacity at Rosh Intelligent Systems Inc , the Aurum-like turnaround former Uniplex chief Jeff Waxman is now heading up . |
| 5 | The thing has gone on in a different way from previous years , and the outcome , as you 've observed , although the Liberal Democrats initially proposed spending at capping , they have gone down by half a million pounds . |
| 6 | His ambulance service has taken off in a big way . |
| 7 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |
| 8 | so you know the , these one thing you 'll have to work out in a logical side of revelation |
| 9 | 18 If you are on Antigua facing North , what angle do you have to turn through in a clockwise direction to face Bermuda ? |
| 10 | Actually it was lucky that we went right over all three lanes of the motorway , there was a lot of people behind us , but luckily they saw the tyres , and they backed off , but we could have finished up in a real |
| 11 | Otherwise , with all those emotions swirling around inside , I might have ended up in a mental hospital banging my head against a wall , screaming ‘ mama' . ’ |
| 12 | Many of them must have ended up in a British soldier 's mess-tin . |
| 13 | I 'd have to strike out in a poorer direction . |
| 14 | Novice anthropologists are not all birds of a feather but most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in a modern industrialized society of the sort which presupposes a particular type of major distinction between private affairs and public affairs . |
| 15 | Ministry seems to have grown up in a haphazard manner , basically in response to the need that various functions be performed . |
| 16 | Spiro is believed to have driven off in a four-wheel-drive vehicle . |
| 17 | Spiro is believed to have driven off in a four-wheel-drive vehicle . |
| 18 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 19 | It was making her heartbeat erratic , and her whole body had broken out in a fine dew of perspiration . |
| 20 | Washington , he said , stood by its commitment to overcome the division of Europe , Germany and Berlin , but this had to come about in a gradual process which satisfied German aspirations and met the ‘ legitimate interests ’ of all concerned . |
| 21 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 22 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 23 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |
| 24 | But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ . |
| 25 | So she had grown up in a cold , almost emotionally empty vacuum . |
| 26 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 27 | It was he whom Matthew had brought down in a flying tackle . |
| 28 | When someone came into the room he realised he had gone out in a sweet unconscious . |
| 29 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 30 | The governor 's pet was found by joggers after fears that she had ended up in a Chinese meal . |