Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A STUDENT has won a £500 human resources prize from Courtaulds for his work on recruitment techniques and reviewing performance . |
| 2 | For the first time in 14 years , the country 's top sprinter , currently sunning himself in Australia , has decided to skip the event at which he has won a record nine men 's titles . |
| 3 | THROUGH no fault of its own , the most westerly village in Northern Ireland has suffered a demoralising 20 years of decline . |
| 4 | For example , suppose a motor with the torque/speed characteristic shown in Fig.5.l has to move a load 1000 steps . |
| 5 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 6 | He had n't meant to say it , but it was the effect of the beer and the movement of the ship and her sophistication , all things he could n't cope with together , so he 'd taken her down to the bar and they 'd had a couple more drinks to restore his confidence before the boat docked . |
| 7 | If we 'd fought that election on the trade union agenda , we would have won a lot more votes than the campaign issues chosen by the professionals . |
| 8 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 9 | He was made redundant in 1991 , having bought a house two years earlier . |
| 10 | Wyse Technology found itself a technology playmate in Siemens Nixdorf , having forged a pact some months ago that they 're just getting around to telling us about : Wyse is selling SNI its Intel Corp-based symmetric multi-processing designs and subsystems which the Germans are using in the MX500 superserver line released in Europe and the Far East late last year . |
| 11 | ‘ I think Jimi would have still been fusing things , and when he got done finding everything that he could fuse together then he would have invented a couple more things and then fused them with everything else . |
| 12 | But the ancient world would have found a lot more uses for citrus fruit . |
| 13 | It reached the South Metropolitan Gas Company , having cleared a wall 132 years from the wicket . |
| 14 | Mochlos , one of the smaller towns on the north coast , is estimated ( by Todd Whitelaw , 1983 ) to have had a population ten times greater , living in an estimated fifty-five houses . |
| 15 | In comparison to his contemporaries in 1967 he had completed a lot more films than most ; the difference was that his were a succession of B-movies that paid him little . |
| 16 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
| 17 | Pretty girls moved through McIllvanney 's life at an astonishing rate , though the last , who had endured a record six months , had left just a few weeks before . |
| 18 | Such speakers may make overgeneralisations which are not appropriate either as HE or as SE , for example : " I 've done a course two years ago " ( Harris 1984 : 315 ) . |
| 19 | He had seen a friend fifty yards away . |
| 20 | Edward , who was hopeful that he had made a conquest some minutes earlier , found it hard to gather his concentration . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've bought a couple more outfits , a smart black dress , some good trousers , ’ she said eagerly . |
| 22 | The company had opened a record fifteen shops in 1978 bringing its total to over seventy outlets worldwide . |
| 23 | About ten minutes after take off Deacon had reached a position eight miles East of Filfla and a height of 10,000 feet . |
| 24 | Yesterday we made our mind up to have that one and we 've set a sign some papers so |
| 25 | By the time that Edward Heath had to appoint a chairman twenty years later , he chose Professor Michael ( later Lord ) Swann , Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University , on the grounds that running the BBC was rather like running a university , with a ferment of ideas , plenty of eccentricity and troublesome students . |
| 26 | Since it was two-in-a-row time , he had taken a lot more precautions with this one . |
| 27 | Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher . |
| 28 | As early as 1943 American researchers R. K. Byers and E. E. Lord had published a paper Late effects of lead poisoning on mental development . |
| 29 | Downstairs , the piano had started up ( the new cottage upright , a Schiedmayer and Soehne 's , seven-octave , in walnut , that Dad had paid a whole thirty-five pounds for at Ramsden 's ) . |
| 30 | And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty . |