Example sentences of "to have [verb] a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) claimed on Sept. 16 to have crushed a government military offensive launched between Sept. 9 and 13 on the northern Ginda and Dekemhare fronts , east and south-east respectively of the beseiged government-held provincial capital , Asmara . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's most unfair of the Labour Party to have imposed a burden such as this on a man of John Scott 's age , ’ he says . |
| 3 | She certainly seems to have done a lot more than your lot . ’ |
| 4 | It is rumoured to have secured a $10 billion standby line of credit from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York . |
| 5 | FRENCH police claim to have uncovered a £50 million money-laundering operation at the weekend after becoming suspicious of Japanese businessmen who appeared uninterested in profit , writes Tim Witcher in Paris . |
| 6 | Chopper , now a successful racing greyhound breeder , said : ‘ It just sums up what a bloody idiot he is to have made a video nasty like that . |
| 7 | I seem to have grown a trifle anxious . ’ |
| 8 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , an Edinburgh University student , was said to have used a £200 micro computer at his home in Ilkley , West Yorkshire , to dial up the Financial Times network and introduce a rogue programme to the high-technology system , Southwark Crown Court was told . |
| 9 | ‘ But they appear to have got a bit lax on ( a ) . ’ |
| 10 | Mochlos , one of the smaller towns on the north coast , is estimated ( by Todd Whitelaw , 1983 ) to have had a population ten times greater , living in an estimated fifty-five houses . |
| 11 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration ( ODA ) was to have contributed a £7.8 million loan , via the African Development Bank , towards the scheme . |
| 12 | Particularly conspicuous by his absence is that verse-translator of Virgil who is generally held ( in my view , rightly ) to have set a standard that no other can equal , except momentarily ; that is , Dryden . |
| 13 | The police were reported on July 17 to have arrested a total of 31 people in the capital Port-au-Prince and in the town of Gonaives and to have seized a warehouse full of " homemade " weapons following what the government described as a " conspiracy against the internal security of the state " by former members of the Tontons Macoutes . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most appropriate nation that we could ask to accept the new headquarters of a strengthened and reformed IAEA is Japan , the one nation to have experienced a wartime nuclear attack . |
| 15 | Livingston is also reported to have recruited a Norweigan dietary expert at a cost of £6,000 to provide evidence of his innocence but the expert is alleged to have disappeared with the money . |