Example sentences of "have [verb] [noun sg] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank of England has voiced concern at increasing debt defaults by personal borrowers , and especially those with substantial mortgages . |
| 2 | I pay the rent , the salaries , the insurance , this , that and the other , and meanwhile I 'm having to sell stuff at great losses . |
| 3 | Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful . |
| 4 | Shelley was disappointed not to have seen Miguelito at close quarters . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've worn costume at Carnival time , ’ he said smoothly , ducking the question . |
| 6 | In state elections in Hesse , Germany , on Jan. 20 , the Greens were able to improve their position after a poor showing in the German general election in December ( when the party had lost representation at federal level — see ED no. 41/42 ) . |
| 7 | McQuillen was responsible for establishing Sun 's Scottish manufacturing plant in Linlithglow — ironically both McQuillen and Irishman Melia have done time at Digital Equipment Corp 's Galway plant in Ireland , the closure of which was formally announced last week , at the same time as news of the planned Sun centre emerged . |
| 8 | Cats have long memories and if they have suffered pain at male hands they may hate all males for months afterwards , sometimes literally for years . |
| 9 | Alan Bleakley tells of some very fruitful rituals including working with archetypal images which have taken place at various stone circles in Cornwall where individuals were considerably helped by being able to tune in to the spirit of the place . |
| 10 | Even more ambitious attempts to bring trade unionists and community activists together in educational settings have taken place at Northern College . |
| 11 | Twenty US states have warned people to limit or remove consumption of fish caught from a number of lakes , while Canadian officials have discovered mercury at significant levels in 95 per cent of lakes tested in Ontario . |