Example sentences of "have [verb] such [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , one has to expect such things to occur amongst maids and footmen , and a good butler should always take this into account in his planning ; but such marrying amongst more senior employees can have an extremely disruptive effect on work . |
| 2 | Once upon a time muezzins had had to climb such towers to call the people to prayer , the little round room at the top giving resonance , enlarging the human voice . |
| 3 | Nowhere else is an ‘ us-them ’ mentality so clearly expressed ; but their technical proficiency and factual command of state business must have enabled such men to acquire great and even lasting power — again , at the Assembly 's expense , despite their need to pose as agents of the popular , that is of the Assembly 's , will . |
| 4 | From childhood to grave , come rain or shine , joy or sorrow , but for a miracle , you yourself would have worn such garb to keep out the cold , the heat and the rain . |
| 5 | Having taken such pains to avoid industrial contamination and natural dust , the team ran into a novel form of pollution that repeatedly clogged their filters : penguin feathers . |
| 6 | Sidonius , like the Late Antique authors on whom he modelled himself , had written such letters to ensure the existence of a pool of friends on whom he could count in times of need . |
| 7 | Wilson knew that some visiting Americans had let it be widely known in Florence that they considered Mrs Browning little more than a ghost and though she had laughed such gossip to scorn she now saw there was perhaps real cause for alarm . |
| 8 | In an analysis of the 1987 accounts of 470 banks the Commission had found that the three major banks had used such reserves to cover up losses , and that 46 out of 65 banks , which in fact made a loss in 1987 , had reported profits . |
| 9 | Patients who had experienced such treatment reported , on average , that small improvements in survival would make the treatment worthwhile . |
| 10 | He felt that the play upon which he had bestowed such care had been a failure . |
| 11 | I was busy wondering why Ewen Mackay , by playing host , had taken such pains to foster that impression . |
| 12 | The past three decades have seen such assumptions challenged . |
| 13 | Municipal sewage works have used such methods to treat sewage since the early 1900s and the biogas produced , which consists on average of 70 per cent methane and 30 per cent carbon dioxide ( Hawkes and Hawkes 1987 ) , can be used to power the digestion plant itself . |
| 14 | You may well be wondering why I have taken such pains to show that the Spirit of God , his active intervention on the human scene which took such varied forms in the Old Testament , became concentrated in the person of Jesus the Messiah , and then was poured out by him upon the messianic community . |
| 15 | ‘ As so many managers have discovered such players come cheaper than those in the Irish League . |