Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 2 | Cartier , of 175 New Bond Street , W1 ( 01–528 7419 ) , has produced the ultimate in opulent creatures with a fine strutting cockerel brooch . |
| 3 | And it would be you know , which tin is the best value , which has got the most in and all this . |
| 4 | A CHILD with a rare inherited disease that affects the immune system has become the first in the world to receive an advanced form of gene therapy . |
| 5 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 6 | One of the region 's police forces has become the first in the country to use mobile cameras in an effort to trap speeding drivers . |
| 7 | An Oxford priest has become the first in the country to announce he 'll leave the Church of England following the vote to ordain women priests . |
| 8 | AN Edinburgh independent boys ' school has become the first in Britain to plug into the French government 's prestigious new technology learning centre . |
| 9 | A nine-year-old boy has become the youngest in history to pass an A-level in mathematics at the time of writing . |
| 10 | That of course assumes that everything spent on transport in England is a national cost and that the policing of London is a national cost , but we say that once we settle down and allocate the nature of expenditure as between the two countries , disallowing the cost of running the southern region of the railways as a United Kingdom expense , it is perfectly clear , as the Scottish newspapers have often demonstrated under the heading ’ Scotching the Myth ’ — Scottish Television has demonstrated the same in a programme of the same name — that there is no question of Scotland being subsidised in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 11 | In this instance , established authority and its police were set to oppose the threat posed by this new anti-structure , for the counter-culture renounced power and society feared their challenge , as it has feared the unworldly in every age . |
| 12 | Government response to the crisis has hit the poor in a way that has become all too familiar in the Third World . |
| 13 | In a similar way , Raymond Briggs has explored the uncomfortable in picture-books . |
| 14 | * Japan has launched the latest in its series of " scientific " whale hunts . |
| 15 | He would have done the same in her position if he had to appear at a press conference — appearance was important to Dexter . |
| 16 | He 'd have done the same in Cindy 's place . |
| 17 | Unbelievably , the court was told that they would not help the defence case — a demonstrable falsehood that could have landed the three in jail . |
| 18 | Legislators have only just passed the 1993 budget , and they will not appreciate having to rearrange the billions in pork they packed into it . |
| 19 | Instead of slapping me down , as any surgeon could quite reasonably have done in those circumstances , and particularly a surgeon with his reputed bite , he said simply , ‘ Not having seen them , I ca n't truthfully answer you , but from what I 've heard the two in the black car should have a fair chance . |
| 20 | The details of the liberal programme ( attack on regional , ecclesiastical , and aristocratic privilege , guilds , and the Mesta ) were inherited from regalists and political economists , from the servants of Charles III who had attacked the privileged in the interests of a modernized monarchy unencumbered with private jurisdictions . |
| 21 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee had recommended the same in its Report , Offences Against the Person , Cmnd 7844 , 1980 . |
| 22 | A few days earlier , the 40,000 miners of the Jiu Valley towns of Lupeni , Vulcan and Petrosani , in the foothills of the Carpathians two hundred and fifty miles to the north-west of Bucharest , had done the unimaginable in a communist state : they had gone on strike . |
| 23 | The Dutch had done the same in 1982 , after a horrible massacre at the main army barracks in Paramaribo , the capital . |
| 24 | Before twelfth-century English bishops helped to propagate a canon law based on papal direction by appealing constantly to Rome for guidance , Boniface had done the same in the eighth century . |
| 25 | Would that he had done the same in the biological parts . |
| 26 | Early in the fourth century the struggles that had occurred intermittently between the Roman state and the Christian Church ended with the latter proving the stronger , partly as a result of the military upheavals that had threatened the former in the middle of the previous century . |
| 27 | I mean , does n't mean you 've got the finest in Europe ! |
| 28 | ‘ Look neither to the right nor to the left , but keep straight on ’ , Asquith had told the faithful in his resignation speech of October 1926 . |
| 29 | A couple of hours later the same Burnmouth boat which had brought the Marischal in picked its secret way out of Berwick harbour , with the three knights as passengers . |
| 30 | And how would we know the colour had remained the same in the intervening years ? ) |