Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a local " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE discovery by a young woman that her father had sexually abused her older sisters while they were children has led to a local authority agreeing to buy back a house it had sold into the private sector . |
| 2 | studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant . |
| 3 | The company has worked with a local college to help employees with basic English and mathematics skills . |
| 4 | Later it may have declined to a local field access path in the thirteenth century , been re-aligned by enclosure commissioners in the eighteenth century and turned into a dual-carriage trunk road in this century . |
| 5 | She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’ |
| 6 | The Head Gardener , Andrew King , had arranged for a local woodcarver , Dave Meekes , to be on spot to craft the wood into bowls as the tree was sawn up by a team of tree surgeons . |
| 7 | Cranston , who had stopped at a local tavern to refill his miraculous wineskin , was full of chatter and speculation . |
| 8 | In May the National Executive decided to give official recognition to Advance which , since its foundation in December 1935 , had risen from a local circulation of a few hundred to a sale of 15,000 reaching the entire membership of the League . |
| 9 | He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper . |
| 10 | Wendy had worked at a local hospital as a clerk in medical records before giving up work to look after her children . |
| 11 | One of the writer 's earliest memories of Nottingham comes from 1962 when he had alighted from a local train from Sheffield at the Midland Station . |
| 12 | Mr Morton was born in South Africa , the son of a Scottish oil executive who had married into a local Afrikaner family . |
| 13 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |