Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 2 | ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’ |
| 3 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 4 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 5 | I feel I would have had a chance of breaking my North West ‘ duck ’ . |
| 6 | Active swimmers in the surface waters of the present oceans are likely to feed directly on the plankton , and the trilobites may have had a method of harvesting large quantities of minute food . |
| 7 | RESEARCHERS in Texas may have found a way of reducing brain damage in road accident victims who have been drinking excessively . |
| 8 | Now had I known about this it the time , of course he would not have stood a chance of getting into the RAF . |
| 9 | There is nothing God-given about any particular system of measurement ; intelligent life on another planet might easily have evolved a method of assessing people 's incomes which involved multiplying by a fixed amount for each increment . |