Example sentences of "have [verb] an [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little has done an excellent job at Filbert Street since he left Darlington last summer . |
| 2 | A WOMAN who lost her husband and two small sons in a fire earlier this year has had an attempted break-in at her new home . |
| 3 | Recently , Sir John Thomas 's group from the Royal Institution , London , has used an instrumental arrangement at Daresbury that allowed them to capture both types of information on the same sample while it was actually undergoing a chemical change . |
| 4 | It is as though someone has swung an invisible sandbag at the rod , it curves over so fast and far , and so suddenly . |
| 5 | He 'd had an intense affair at Oxford which had drifted through almost a dozen years of indeterminate life and ended in a brutal rejection . |
| 6 | In early 1981 , Reagan and his aides spoke confidently of his having received an impressive mandate at the recent elections , and many in Congress and the media seemed to find the argument convincing . |
| 7 | For all he said about poetry being a ‘ mug 's game ’ , he must have felt an interior exultation at knowing that he possessed outstanding gifts . |
| 8 | By now you will have become an old hand at completing charts , logging your daily weight and entering any adverse reactions and symptoms you may have experienced . |
| 9 | Confining himself to Scotland 's priorities , the national coach expressed relief at having gained an initial win at Malta 's expense and admiration for the manner of that achievement . |
| 10 | Having assisted an old woman at a zebra crossing , I was granted three wishes . |
| 11 | Exceptionally dashing in his polo clothes ( he was a ten-goal player ) , he must have struck an imposing figure at six foot four . |
| 12 | Once established , however , this function is likely to have assumed an over-riding importance at those towns which were most suitably placed to exploit its potential . |
| 13 | While these oboists were all young musicians , Jacques Hotteterre would in 1675 have been a well established artist , at the mid-point in his career , with a name carrying the renown of the Hotteterres as performers and instrument makers ; he can now be identified as probably the first French oboist known to have held an official position at the English court . |
| 14 | The party broke up when Father D'Arcy , whose life was organized round the liturgy , rose saying that he had to attend an obligatory office at Campion Hall . |
| 15 | In addition , the steering had developed an ominous creak at parking speeds and the rear silencer on the exhaust had again come adrift . |
| 16 | Whilst I had nothing in the way of academy to display , I had won an open competition at the YMCA Baghdad Tennis Tournament , and was scrum-half for a 15 that was scratched up to play odd sides like the Palestine Police , or a crew from a Red Sea sloop on a visit . |
| 17 | Four days earlier the USA had detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific . |
| 18 | A series of mass meetings , supported by the Cooks and Stewards , the Hull Seamen , the Dockers , the Railwaymen and the International Transport Workers Federation , where Wilson had secured an anti-Asiatic resolution at the London meeting in August 1913 , demanded the complete exclusion of Chinese labour from British ships . |
| 19 | About five months earlier he had attended an open day at the power station during which the Acting Administrative Officer , Hilary Robarts , had given a short preliminary talk . |
| 20 | Well I mean I 'm , I 've got an easy time at the moment because I 'm on today . |
| 21 | We 've got an excellent result at the end of the day , but what 's the point of having an excellent result if we 're bankrupt next week ? |
| 22 | It had seemed an impossible dream at the time ; but to have an impossible dream was a harmless comfort , and their love and respect for Rabbi Moishe made it difficult for them to grudge him their co-operation . |
| 23 | Kathleen Ethrington , 89 , had lived an active life at her home in Eastbourne Road , Darlington , but in recent months her health failed and she was obliged to move into hospital and then to the Wilton House nursing home . |
| 24 | Sunderland , incidentally , have arranged an inter-track meeting at Wembley on Friday , May 10 , the eve of the FA Cup Final , and are hoping that they will have the support of Roker fans who are in the capital that night . |
| 25 | All of the problems considered in this section have had an optimal solution at θ = 0 . |