Example sentences of "have at [num] [noun] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Augmentations are worth searching out , for there is many a manor , grand house , or estate which has at one time been owned by an eminent person in receipt of an augmentation of one kind or another — and there is almost certainly a good tale to tell .
2 The PUK had not always been devoid of outside help , having at one stage been supported by Syria before entering into negotiations with Baghdad in 1984 for a new deal for Iraqi Kurds to improve on the Autonomous Region status conceded them under a mosaic of earlier legislation .
3 Jeremy Taylor , who had at one time been chaplain to Archbishop Laud , was no Calvinist .
4 I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar .
5 The manager of Goddards , ‘ Wiggy ’ Harris , had at one time been a teacher at the local ‘ School of Art ’ where his father Mr. Joseph Harris was Headmaster .
6 It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order .
7 There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper .
8 Semenov had at one time been the Deputy Foreign Minister .
9 She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun .
10 Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor .
11 A further survey of men in the Camberwell Reception Centre one night in 1965 found that a quarter of them had at one time been in mental hospitals and a further quarter were heavily dependent on alcohol .
12 His father , the son of a Yorkshire grazier , had at one time been a journeyman packer in London .
13 It had at one time been a larger crude producer than Saudi Arabia , with an output in 1964 of 2.3 million b/d against the Saudi 1.9 million b/d , only being overtaken in 1966 .
14 Busacher had at one time been surprised at Willi 's musical perception , but was no longer .
15 She was jumpy and had at one point been startled by her own shadow .
16 He had at one stage been described as the worst farmer in Britain and RSPCA investigators found emaciated animals when they went there .
17 The result is that there are books on many library shelves which have at one time been declared obscene or indecent and may be so categorized again .
18 The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him .
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