Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’
2 However , K. G. Ridgewell has supplied some records for the years 1929 to 1939 for roughly 64,000 acres ( 256 sq .
3 By leaving the analysis at the abstract level , Freud has enabled some psychotherapists to oppose all crowd phenomena in religious and political action , to see it all as being pathological .
4 Although more oriented toward an empirical approach , the United States has exhibited some elements of the rationalist .
5 Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks .
6 After Katharine had experienced some problems with the half-pass , Jennie suggested that Katharine try some travers , which would help to improve the half-pass .
7 ‘ Madame Gebrec has recommended some books . ’
8 Mrs Polgar had offered some refreshments ; saucissons , gherkins , and bread and coffee .
9 Although Bush had imposed some sanctions immediately following the massacre [ see pp. 36722 ; 36815 ] , he had subsequently faced a great deal of congressional criticism for his " soft " China policy [ see p. 37341 ] .
10 Antonia had invited some boys .
11 Such choreographers as Ashton , MacMillan and Robbins have produced some ballets which have an exclusive style of their own .
12 ‘ Only Jos has got some calls to make and he was wondering whether you 'd like a ride ?
13 Broomhill is believed to be the first house in Britain to have had some items of domestic equipment powered by electricity — for example , the butter churn and electric chafing-dish .
14 Clean air acts in the West have reduced some forms of pollution .
15 Cynrik has spent some years researching the crash and succeeded in tracing Sgt Fenton 's younger brother , Raymond .
16 It was all in legal gobbledegook and took a bit of working out but Lord Chatwin had added some words of his own at the end : ‘ If my beloved Spiggy is found everything goes to him and his heirs . ’
17 As Brailsford had noted some years earlier : ‘ The decline of our trade with Germany , Russia and Austria would alone account for the whole volume of our present unemployment . ’
18 Stuart had bought some Gauloises anyway .
19 Jonquil had pressed some books on Rachaela , unsuitable for anyone .
20 Meanwhile , Fred Weick had incorporated some improvements , like a C75 engine ( with electric start ) and an additional nine-gallon fuel tank in the left wing .
21 But he believed that MacDonald had made some soundings in a coalition direction , and in a speech at Hull on 19 July he went out of his way to reject ‘ the idea that a national government such as existed during the war should be set up in the present difficulties ’ .
22 The papers have been desperate to unsettle Rocky for ages , so they see that Wilko has made some enquiries about a player , they see the two clubs , they see an out-of-favour player on each side and immediately jump to conclusions .
23 Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems .
24 Liza had written some weeks ago to say that John had been sent , at only a few hours ' notice , on a course .
25 Braque had submitted some paintings to the Salon d'Automne in 1908 ( a few of the same paintings which he later showed at Kahnweiler 's ) , and Matisse , who was on the jury , is also said to have described these works as being composed of ‘ petits cubes ’ .
26 Elizabeth 's got some clothes for thoo , from oor Tamar . ’
27 Ian 's got some friends tonight .
28 With just two words , prison works , Home Secretary Michael Howard has upset some members of the judiciary .
29 Leigh has suggested some refinements to the chronology and the sequence of development ( 1984b ) ; 192 such brooches are known suggesting that the minimum output was a little under two per year .
30 Captain Derrick Harrison has described some aspects of the training :
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