Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 2 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 3 | ‘ By pushing the boat out unilaterally , ’ says Weir Group 's Ron Garrick , ‘ the Government has put us at a severe disadvantage compared with our German and American counterparts . |
| 4 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 5 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 6 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 7 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 8 | If the purchaser himself intends to dispose subsequently of these assets he will prefer to have acquired them at the higher base cost to minimise capital gains or corporation tax on a subsequent disposal . |
| 9 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 10 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 11 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 12 | Having , as a small boy , saved his pocket money to buy his mother a scarf for her birthday , he was sharply told to take it back : he had bought it at a Liberal shop . |
| 13 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 14 | There were the two gold and jewelled boxes Müller had sold him at a staggering profit , considering he had bought them from someone facing criminal charges , and desperate for cash . |
| 15 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 16 | They 've tested it at a hundred and thirty five miles done , eh ? |
| 17 | Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham . |
| 18 | They 've castrated him at the same time |
| 19 | It 's left them at a loose end at home . |