Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think a common assessment policy if it is to come has to include the private sector at least in so far as the public sector is funded by private money . |
| 2 | RUSSIAN leader Boris Yeltsin , who will address Parliament on Tuesday morning , has booked the Royal Suite at the five-star Hyde Park Hotel , Knightsbridge for himself and his wife , Naina , for his two-day visit to Britain which begins on Monday . |
| 3 | England has won the second Test at Wanganui by four wickets : during the match , Carole Hodges became the fifth Englishwoman to score 1000 Test runs . |
| 4 | In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead . |
| 5 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 6 | But it is not just population displacement that has made the High Dam at Aswan such a controversial issue . |
| 7 | Back at the corner plot , the imaginary Seniors are delighted that Carole has had the gigantic poplar at the back removed . |
| 8 | I am particularly keen to learn whether readers believe the employment of these cricketers has benefited the English game at domestic and national level . |
| 9 | The unrest stems from their demand for higher salaries and better working conditions and has brought the day-to-day operations at the ministry of finance to a virtual standstill . |
| 10 | He appears to be trying to escape a pursuer who has seized the long hair at the back of his head . |
| 11 | Since returning from the weekend meeting in Palm Springs , California , to which President Bush summoned him early this month , Mr Kaifu has seized the high ground at home in Japan 's efforts to avert a trade war with the United States . |
| 12 | ‘ Souness has inherited the biggest mess at Anfield that I can remember and in trying to get himself out of it he has at times become even more bogged down . |
| 13 | Derek Polson , a CCG storeman at KG Ethylene Offsite stores , showed he knows all there is to know about fork lift driving when he scored a perfect 100 per cent in his driving test — the first time a driver has achieved the maximum score at Hargreaves Training in Glasgow . |
| 14 | If you 'd said the right things at |
| 15 | If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley . |
| 16 | We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later . |
| 17 | He must have heard the racing results at six o'clock . |
| 18 | ONLY a Satanic mind could have placed the death-dealing bomb at the hospital , said Alliance deputy leader Seamus Close . |
| 19 | ‘ I shall have to inform the Prime Minister at once . |
| 20 | But you do not have to hire the smart guy at the top , for his thinking is likely to he atypical anyway . |
| 21 | Any feelings of shyness Fabia might have endured the following morning at the thought of seeing Ven again were shortlived when she did actually see him . |
| 22 | Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ? |
| 23 | Yet even by the standards of the day , it seems extraordinary that Joyce should have thought the British people at large would respond sympathetically to his shrill and truculent celebration of the fate of Jews in the first year of Hitler 's dictatorship . |
| 24 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 25 | The red-faced major had a good memory for faces and well recalled that when he was lecturing to the officers of the Scots Guards at Pirbright in 1939 , a certain young gentleman had persistently slept through his talks , having spent the previous nights at wild parties in London . |
| 26 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 27 | Wolfgang Hildesheimer ( 1985 , p.201 ) , in his ‘ warts-and-all ’ study of Mozart , suggests that music offers similar opportunities : ‘ Why else should we need music but for its ability to satisfy our longing for emotional experience , without our having to undergo the deep tumult at its root ’ . |
| 28 | Buyers who have paid high prices do not discover that they could have obtained the same goods at lower prices ; sellers who have sold for low prices do not discover that they could have obtained higher prices . |
| 29 | News of their ill-luck may have dampened the post-match celebrations at Branch Road last night after Derry rattled up the highest score of the round , 61–17 against north west neighbours Omagh . |
| 30 | Finally , the new limitation on the first-instance jurisdiction of the archons is not likely to have replaced the old system at a stroke ; a decree for Phaselis ( ML 31 — Fornara 68 ) in which an archon still has substantive powers could thus date from a little after 462 — but not much . |