Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNLU would not have given such a warning had it not feared how the PLO outside might behave . |
| 2 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 3 | Then might you have seen many a horse running about the field with the saddle under his belly , and many a horseman in evil plight upon the ground . |
| 4 | Not only were most holdings too small to provide much work for hired labour , but the big villages that would have housed such a workforce did not exist . |
| 5 | The Intelligence Corps instructor who had taught him the trade would have had such a lock open with one twist but Maxim was out of practice and the lock was old and arthritic . |
| 6 | Rarely can a goalkeeper have had such an incentive to shut out a former club than Rovers ' Bobby Mimms has at Ewood Park this afternoon . |
| 7 | She must have spent half an hour making herself up . |
| 8 | ‘ I would never have believed such a place existed , ’ she continued , glancing round the cave . |
| 9 | The sense of injustice created by such a system would inevitably work against its deterrent effectiveness ( Beccaria always acknowledged the importance of consent in producing compliance ; it is difficult to imagine how his version of the social contract would have allowed such a system to operate ) . |
| 10 | I 'd have to spend half an hour calming Dawn down after these attacks . |