Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know perfectly well that the Labour party has committed itself to an additional £35,000 million of public spending and no capping on local authority expenditure . |
| 2 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 3 | ‘ First , my miserable Yankee friend , the good Brigadeführer Farber has recommended you for an immediate Iron Cross First Class which , from what he says , you deserve . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Madam , I must tell you , ’ I replied , ‘ that since he found me , my master has used me as an easy way of making money for himself . |
| 5 | Mr Kronenburg 's lawyers accepted that the defamation was accidental , four-figure damages were paid , and Chatto & Windus , having first withdrawn the book , has reissued it with an elaborate disclaimer slip . |
| 6 | Leaving aside the actor 's film plans , the restaurant has become something of an epic production in itself . |
| 7 | He and his son are largely responsible for the countless impressions of Rembrandt 's graphic works , repeatedly reworking the plates so that Rembrandt 's authorship of them has become something of an ethical dilemma . |
| 8 | What is important to note is that the collaboration between Grover Jackson and Randy Rhoads in designing this guitar was both fruitful and a complete success , because between them they produced an instrument which , in Randy 's hands , has provided itself with an impressive track record . |
| 9 | If nothing else , he has provided us with an excellent description of coffin-making , coffin furniture and grave clothes of the mid seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Mr Brown 's trip to Harlem has brought us into an urban landscape known to tabloid headline writers as Beirut-on-Hudson , an advance on their earlier versions of , first , Naples-on-Hudson , and then Calcutta-on-Hudson . |
| 11 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 12 | Iii case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices , let me state categorically that all my experience ( such as it is ) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record . |
| 13 | Dr Halden is married to my daughter and has taken her on an extended tour of the Continent . ’ |
| 14 | Their defeat of Grange ‘ D ’ has put them in an unassailable position and they will return to division two after a season 's absence . |
| 15 | But then City , who have not won a League match at Old Trafford since condemning United to relegation in 1973 , reverted to the sort of form that has left them without an away win since November . |
| 16 | As described earlier , they include those who lack other supportive relationships , or whose previous relationship with the deceased has left them with an overwhelming sense of guilt , leading to self-punitive grief . |
| 17 | Their joint commissions reached well over a hundred , and though by the time the Dolls ' House was created , Miss Jekyll was nearly eighty and practically blind , being asked to design the garden gave her immense satisfaction , and has left us with an unaltered glimpse of this period of England 's gardening history . |
| 18 | Clearly this phenomenon is not confined to the United States ; value pluralism has created something of an educational Tower of Babel in Britain also . |
| 19 | And with a history of political stability , business freedom and international competitiveness ideal for business to grow and prosper , Singapore has established itself as an excellent telecommunications hub and global business centre . |
| 20 | But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin . |
| 21 | I could n't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun . |
| 22 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 23 | If the Bill had stopped there , we would have supported it as an unnecessary but reasonably harmless measure , but it goes far beyond the type of incident about which we are all deeply worried . |
| 24 | I should never have appointed her in an acting capacity . ’ |
| 25 | Having put themselves in an extraordinary environment , which nevertheless feels so homely and ordinary , the members occasionally come into contact with wider , more powerful and less homely influences . |
| 26 | This foolish lad was said to have gorged himself on an entire goose one Christmas Eve and , upon staggering home , was robbed and murdered . |
| 27 | He seems , on his own initiative , to have put himself through an extensive course of classics , modern languages and English literature , a combination of subjects that it was not then possible to offer at any university . |
| 28 | Only the Japanese — at 8,000 the largest single contingent in the initial force — were reported to have conducted themselves in an honourable fashion . |
| 29 | His hair had formed itself into an interesting anthill kind of a shape though . |
| 30 | I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express . |