Example sentences of "received a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am six weeks pregnant , and have just received a present of some beauty products . |
| 2 | We 've received a credit note for Simon 's management fees for 1989 , which amount to DM 40.000 . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend the Member for Rochford ( Dr. Clark ) , whose rates bill on a four-bedroomed house was £1,280 , would have received a council tax bill of £510 — a reduction of £770 . |
| 4 | At Van Cliburn 's party the previous week , each guest had received a gold watch with the insignia of the competition inscribed on its dial . |
| 5 | Have you received a gold questionnaire from the School of Hotel and Catering Management , Oxford Polytechnic ? |
| 6 | received a gold watch as his long service gift from the Company presented to him by GM , . |
| 7 | HOUSEWIFE Alma Brownrigg , who emigrated from Chelmsford , Essex , to Malta has received a bill from Eastern Electricity for 1p . |
| 8 | In February 1942 , Captain Oswald Benton , a welfare officer , Royal Artillery , wrote to the county treasurer on behalf of one of his soldiers whose wife had had an operation at St. Peter 's , and who had received a bill for £1.4s.0d. ( which included £1.1s.0d. for the anaesthetic fee ) : |
| 9 | He had received a bill for £10.12s.6d. which he respectfully offered to pay off at 30s. a week . |
| 10 | The writer had received a bill from St. Peter 's Hospital for £10.5s.6d. : |
| 11 | On the other hand , if you have had a number of unsuccessful taxations it may be that your draftsman is being too optimistic , especially if payment is on the basis of a percentage of the costs as drawn — If you want to test out your costs draftsman , having received a bill back , send the file off to someone else and see how they draw it . |
| 12 | Now I have received a bill for nineteen pounds thirty from the hospital for the treatment I was given . |
| 13 | One farmer has just received a bill for seven hundred pounds . |
| 14 | Peter Laslett , who had succeeded his fellow-historian Edward Miller as District treasurer three years before , made a further point to the District Executive when it considered the financial position early in September : the local education authorities had recently received a circular from the Ministry asking that students ' fees for courses be raised to 10s. 0d. per term . |
| 15 | The current governor ran into a storm when it was revealed he had received a 17% pay increase in 1991 . |
| 16 | His grandfather had received a baronetcy for loyalty to the Crown in the Civil War . |
| 17 | The presence or severity of the lesions contributing to the anaemia was difficult to interpret at endoscopy in 43 of the patients as they had received a course of H 2 antagonists ( n=18 ) or had reduced or stopped aspirin or NSAIDs ( n=32 ) , or both , before the first hospital attendence . |
| 18 | Mr Smith would have had to pay 20% of this — £80 and would have received a rebate for £320 . |
| 19 | She had almost successfully deterred André from his plans to paint the town red with her , had vaguely told him that she would see how she felt when he issued the invitation , only to pour all her good intentions down the drain when this morning Piers had received a call from Nicole , and informed Alyssia offhandedly that he would be out for the balance of the day . |
| 20 | One day in September , Flora 's doctor received a call from someone who claimed to be from the Family Health Services Authority , asking for details from his files , suspicious , he gave nothing away . |
| 21 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — The Czechoslovak dissident playwright Vaclav Havel said he had received a message from Poland 's Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , that he would work for the release of two Czechoslovak human rights campaigners , Jan Carnogursky and Miroslav Kusy . |
| 22 | We are not allowed to know just yet , for the London Underground rule book tells drivers to wait for 30 minutes before making an announcement , unless they 've received a message to the contrary from their controllers or there is some ‘ immediate threat to safety . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Have you received a message from London to apprehend Tweed ? ’ |
| 24 | Nails had received a message from Mr Sylvester that the Social Services representative wanted to see him at four o'clock . |
| 25 | As I pulled in at the ambulance building , the switchboard had just received a message that a dead body had been found in Cathedral Road . |
| 26 | As the British Resident Minister at AFHQ , Harold Macmillan , reported to the Foreign Office [ KP63 ] : " Thirteen Corps have received a message from General Loehr 's headquarters in Croatia brought by the hand of a German Foreign Office official . |
| 27 | The Information memorandum will only be released after we have received a confidentiality agreement and we would stress at this stage the need for total confidentiality . |
| 28 | Mooney has received a onematch suspension for reaching 21 disciplinary points this season after picking up a booking at Carlisle 12 days ago . |
| 29 | The Syrian Defence Minister , Gen. Mustafa Tlass , had visited Moscow in February and had reportedly received a pledge of military aid . |
| 30 | The press could provide little enlightenment because all newspapers had received a D-Notice asking them not to print any details about the background to the case . |