Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aid agencies all over the world have tried to ease their situation , but more immediate help has come from a Hereford farmer . |
| 2 | Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner . |
| 3 | In the latest number , The Body ( Penguin , £6.99 ) , the John Buchan among editors has turned into a David Cronenberg . |
| 4 | An inquest has opened on a Honda car engineer killed at work . |
| 5 | COWBOY actor Dana Andrews has died in a California hospital of pneumonia aged 83 . |
| 6 | Albert Geldard , who gained an FA Cup-winners ' medal with Everton in 1933 and won four England caps , has died in a Bury hospital , aged 75 . |
| 7 | Gleave , one Liverpool 's wartime air heroes , has died in a Berkshire hospital at the age of 84 . |
| 8 | Laura Davies has died in a Pittsburg hospital . |
| 9 | The Marquis of Blandford has disappeared from a London flat after police arrived to arrest him . |
| 10 | AN energetic drive to broaden the customer base has led to a Courtaulds Aerospace company in France anticipating turnover 50 per cent up on last year . |
| 11 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 12 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 13 | This might have come from a WEA rally . |
| 14 | How could coypu have got into a Suffolk pond ? |
| 15 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 16 | Equally , Thames & Hudson 's ‘ biography ’ of Keith Haring may have seemed a brave piece of publishing to the general bookseller but , supported by T-shirts , badges , posters and cards from te Neues , it pulled in customers who would not normally have stepped inside a Blackwell shop , thanks largely to the non-book items and the extraordinary point of sale from T&H . |
| 17 | Having graduated from a BBC machine to a PC I have found your magazine the best for me because I like the practical side as well as the computing . |
| 18 | Not having worked on a Dalek story since the first one , Cusick was concerned that the creatures were apparently mobile outside their metal cities without any explanation as to how they were picking up power . |
| 19 | But having lived in a Louisiana prison for five years , he is a relative newcomer . |
| 20 | Having traded in a Levin Goliath for a Martin D35 in 1972 , I can give Mick Silva , your ‘ Levin Lover ’ of October some further information . |
| 21 | The incident is alleged to have happened during a Wirral Sunday League match at Ridgewood Park , Pensby , on April 21 . |
| 22 | No documentary evidence exists to establish whether Claude actually traded his wines , and since a Champagne house deals essentially in the commerce of wines , the house of Gosset is deemed to have commenced with a Pierre Gosset from a later generation in 1584 , who both made and sold his wines . |
| 23 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 24 | He recalled that only last Friday Diana had travelled to a Humberside hospice . |
| 25 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 26 | Rita confessed her frock had come from a Beverly Hills shop which was so snooty the assistant asked her if she had an appointment : ‘ I asked , ‘ Why , do the dresses have something else to do ? ’ ’ |
| 27 | Readers had responded to a Desert Island Discs competition , in which they had been asked to indicate their eight favourite works , the winner being the reader whose choice was nearest to consensus opinion . |
| 28 | Two men had met in a London flat : customer and supplier . |
| 29 | On Nov. 25 , 1991 , the United Left ( IU ) opposition grouping had lodged in a Madrid court an accusation against Renfe concerning fraudulent dealings . |
| 30 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |