Example sentences of "have [pos pn] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHY has my insurance gone up by 30pc in one year when I have not made a claim in 40 years , touch wood ? |
| 2 | ‘ Has my husband gone out now ? ’ the expression on her face seemed to say . |
| 3 | HP 's Apollo Network Computing System development team ‘ regards DCE as an NCS product , ’ and currently has its work cut out trying to integrate all the DCE components — new technology to HP — back into NCS . |
| 4 | The Sound of Music : Newcastle Theatre Royal ANY production of this popular classic has its work cut out as far as most critics are concerned . |
| 5 | In effect we were becoming structurally and visibly undisciplined , in a world where discipline has its import spelled out on every occasion . |
| 6 | The 1974 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act states that anyone jailed for between six months and two and a half years has their conviction wiped out after 10 years . |
| 7 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 8 | But she has her work cut out . |
| 9 | The American girl has her head clamped down on her chest trying to stop this sound technician from Dublin from getting his hands down her front . |
| 10 | He has his work cut out for him . |
| 11 | He has his work cut out . |
| 12 | Either way , Sheriff Chuck Crotty has his work cut out for him . |
| 13 | But Mr Espina has his work cut out to convince people that he was not in cahoots with Mr Serrano . |
| 14 | Scott the collie has his work cut out as he rounds up the sheep at Camp Farm . |
| 15 | John has his debating face on . |
| 16 | Has your dad gone back home ? |
| 17 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 18 | It was explained to Sir Robert Armstrong that ‘ weasel words ’ are ‘ words empty of meaning , like an egg which has had its contents sucked out by a weasel . ’ |
| 19 | Before she had come here , she had had her life sorted out and everything had been running smoothly . |
| 20 | She has even had her hairline rounded off to give her Mona Lisa 's forehead . |
| 21 | Four young men were appearing on chargers of peddling drugs , an old lady had had her hand chopped off whilst attempting to retain her purse , containing just two and eightpence , and a motorway to end all motorways was proposed which would wipe out six particularly exquisite villages and several hundred miles of countryside . |
| 22 | The engineers involved in this final part of the supply chain handling process have had their work cut out . |
| 23 | There were few electricity disconnections , not surprising since heat and hot water were provided by gas , but nearly a fifth of the households surveyed had had their gas cut off . |
| 24 | Regions in which the density was slightly higher than average would have had their expansion slowed down by the gravitational attraction of the extra mass . |
| 25 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 26 | Squirrels who 've had their trees cut down ! |
| 27 | She and Charles have had their lifestyle raked over — their flash cars ( ‘ Let's put this in context : the Alfa Romeo and the Jaguar are both five years old ’ ) and their £425,000 house ( ‘ It 's actually valued at £250,000 in the recession . |
| 28 | ‘ A lot of people have had their eyes opened up now . |
| 29 | For instance , a businessman could habitually send customers a typed standard contract and then negotiate on that , or , having had his lawyers draw up a special contract on one occasion , he could start to use this on subsequent occasions as if it were a precedent . |
| 30 | In fact , it was rumoured that one of the Mill Hill guys had had his brain messed around with by the visitor who screwed up the landing in the Hebrides . |