Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Park had closed at 4.30 p.m. the previous day , the detectives learned , yet it was not unknown for nimble adolescents and desperate adults to gain access to the Parks from half-a-dozen possible places . |
| 2 | Although some studies have been made of rural railways , the majority have looked at road-based public transport ( Halsall and Turton , 1979 ) , since only the road provides the flexibility required in rural areas . |
| 3 | The stranding had left at least 28 pilot whales dead . |
| 4 | But first this lunchtime , the trial has begun at the High court in Glasgow of two youths accused of murdering the Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon . |
| 5 | The trial has begun at Preston in Lancashire of two eleven year old boys accused of killing the toddler James Bulger . |
| 6 | They contained no nasty surprises , since the board had warned at the time of the Evode bid that profits would fall to £86 million . |
| 7 | The Londoner has starred at the Upper Malone arena for the past three meetings and his clashes with arch rival Colin Jackson have been something special . |
| 8 | The watch had stopped at three o'clock . |
| 9 | The PS had decided at the end of August to preserve a loose electoral accord with the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |
| 10 | Mr Thomas also claimed the taxpayer had lost at least £29 million as a result of the 1990 sale of the Post Office 's Girobank operations to the Alliance & Leicester building society , in preference to the Co-op Bank 's bid . |
| 11 | The gang has struck at several homes in Monaghan , Cavan and Armagh stealing money from pensioners . |
| 12 | Analysis of the handmade red-brown pills which the hakim had prescribed at a dose of six daily showed each to contain 30–42 mg of inorganic mercuric sulphide ( table ) . |
| 13 | The other men in the canoe had laughed at his impatience and berated him for pointing . |
| 14 | By six the same evening the route had received at least five repeat ascents , and because of its relatively modest grade should stay very popular . |
| 15 | She said the driver had stopped at an intersection , got into the back seat with her and assaulted and raped her . |
| 16 | The JAA has stipulated at least ten medicals a year . |
| 17 | ‘ Informants tell us that the enemy has halted at Annan town . |
| 18 | The snow had drifted at one end , at the beck of the wind , so that it reached almost to the eaves of the roof . |
| 19 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 20 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |
| 22 | The water cooled too quickly for her to stay long in the bath , but afterwards she lay fully dressed on the bed for a while , listening , her spirits rising as she realised that the wind had dropped at last . |
| 23 | Maybe the wind has changed at the Victoria Ground . |
| 24 | The case concerned a rusty old car which had belonged to one M. The structure of the car had rusted at the sides of the engine compartment and M had attempted to repair this with plastic body filler . |
| 25 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 26 | The car had stopped at the quarry in the pitch darkness , and , Mr O'Donnell said , he had been dragged out and beaten again by the men , including McPherson . |
| 27 | Thirty three of the 36 patients in the study had died at the end of the study period , 21 ( 87% ) in the chemotherapy group , and all 12 in the supportive care group . |
| 28 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 29 | The prosecution accepted that the notebook proved Mr Thompson had been involved in the distribution of obscene material , a charge the countess had levelled at him earlier in the trial but that he had denied . |
| 30 | The Professor had glanced at him only once , and seemed oblivious to his challenging glare . |