Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Ramsden 's has taken a third of the equity of a new company , Bluelane , capitalised at £750,000 , which will manage the Hong Kong restaurant and franchise further outlets in the Pacific Rim area . |
| 2 | Partly because of the volume of this response and partly because of the radical nature of some of these proposals , going well beyond those envisaged in Partnership in Validation , the CNAA has allowed a few of the suggested procedures to be tried out on an experimental basis and while this is happening has virtually declared a moratorium on other ‘ special arrangement ’ proposals . |
| 3 | The country has lost a fifth of its mangrove swamps , and many that used to line estuaries are now confined to narrow stretches separating hectares of dyked shrimp ponds . |
| 4 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , could n't you have sold a few of those ? ’ |
| 6 | Personally , we at ZZAP ! prefer a nice quiet game of dominoes , but we do confess to having played a few of these strip poker games on the 64 before . |
| 7 | However even if you get maximum assistance with the Poll Tax , you will still have to pay a fifth of your Poll tax bill . |
| 8 | But of course they are , and there is little doubt that neither Joyce nor myself could ever have achieved a tenth of the success we have without the help and support , not to mention the sheer selflessness and lack of ego , of the men who chose to love us . |
| 9 | Having read a few of your articles I tried sighting the neck by looking down from the headstock end ( as you frequently suggest ) and the neck appears to be very curved , almost banana shaped ! |
| 10 | In all , between 1773 and 1790 , he is reckoned to have spent £30,000 of his own money and to have devoted a third of his time to his crusade to record and improve prison conditions . |
| 11 | We 'll have to have to get a few of these in Radio Orkney I can see . |
| 12 | Instead , after I had anointed a few of the more important Poles with precious substances , I built a dam system . |
| 13 | Being in the charts is one of those things you always dream of but now I 've done a few of those things already . |
| 14 | But I 've seen a few of them on the slippery slope — the Shiny Set , the stars , the Washington |
| 15 | I realized I had seen a few of these same processions on my way north through eastern Czechoslovakia , in Ovitkov and in Ostrava . |
| 16 | We 've answered a few of the queries you may have regarding the new Great Lengths Hair Extensions : |
| 17 | I 've had a few of my heroes on the show — Elizabeth Taylor , Lauren Bacall , Deborah Kerr , and Daniel J. Travanti from Hill Street Blues , but I 've still got a hit list . |
| 18 | I 'm quite looking forward to it though naturally we 've had a few of the old arguments about it . |
| 19 | Oh well you 've quite enjoyed that and you 've had a few of them by the smell of you . |
| 20 | Anyway , er so I thought for a , I 've had a large of the press today which is , it 's a very tense case indeed . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't see so many people going in the opposite direction now , so I hope that 's a sign that we 've persuaded a few of them to stay in town and watch their local team . ’ |
| 22 | The constant mortaring and shelling of the area had dislodged a few of the corpses and the flies and mosquitoes were everywhere . |
| 23 | " But I 've revisited a few of my other cases since then and they 're all improving nicely . |
| 24 | The book is dense with tables and text , and one rather wishes that Thomas had illustrated a few of the more photogenic Ca-dependent events . |
| 25 | Oh , he had greased a few of the Old Bill 's palms over the years , such as the Chief Constable 's , but they were both in the Masons . |
| 26 | She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons . |
| 27 | The average wage in 1950 ( £6. 8s. 0d. ) had almost doubled by 1959 ( £11. 2s. 6d. ) but by then the pound had lost a third of its value . |
| 28 | Very tired but excited that we had covered a third of our journey . |
| 29 | The only mercy is that most of them are put out of their misery before they 've lived a tenth of their natural lifespan . |
| 30 | Well I 've read a few of the , it 's just a case of remembering the precise details . |