Example sentences of "and [adv] have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Second World War , swings Left and Right have had a knack of coinciding on both sides of the Atlantic , with Wilson riding on the post-Kennedy-Johnson wave , Callaghan coming back with Carter , and Margaret Thatcher heralding the Reaganite counter-revolution . |
| 2 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 3 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 4 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 5 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 6 | Environmental Issues , which spotlights this and other surveys on page 11 , is well aware of young people 's interest in green matters and so has introduced a section specifically for them . |
| 7 | So and so 's , so and so 's lame , and so and so 's got a big leg so and so caught hiself this morning , had an overreach . |
| 8 | If a more powerful lord had been shot , with a vast estate , many men might have been thrown out of work and so have borne a grudge against the gunman . |
| 9 | ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp . |
| 10 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 11 | to achieve the immediate objective and thus have taken a significant step towards achieving the overall aim |
| 12 | Endearingly , Francesca herself was not good at drafting that sort of answer and usually had to enlist a more senior colleague to achieve the correct polished hand-off . |
| 13 | If the lavatory leaks a little , and always has leaked a little , one comes to regard the leak as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 14 | Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch . |
| 15 | But we also remember how that was n't sustained , and the cynical political fix of the Tories a few months later , that for the moment has coped with the government 's political crisis , and temporarily has bought a little time for a few pits . |
| 16 | In a rather different way , the estimation of the annual output of the Roman mint between about 150 and 50BC has enabled a picture to be constructed of the growth and then contraction of the liquidity of silver coinage during that period ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 17 | He quietly looked into solving his problems , he got some treatment and really has come a long way . |
| 18 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 19 | Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic met Panic in Sarajevo on July 19 , and on July 30 , returning to Belgrade from a wide-ranging foreign tour , Panic claimed to have improved Yugoslavia 's image abroad , and particularly to have obtained a positive response from France 's President Mitterrand for his policy , which featured a proposed demilitarization in Bosnia-Hercegovina , observance of the UN peace plan for Croatia , restoration of links between the FRY and the other ex-Yugoslav republics , early elections , and restructuring the economic system as a market economy . |
| 20 | The years between 1973 , when Guinness first established a presence in Indonesia , and today have seen a long but seemingly inexorable growth in the Guinness brand . |
| 21 | Paul ended up being selected as one of the 36 contestants for the autumn series — and immediately had to start a rigorous six week training programme to make sure he could tackle the assault course part of the programme . |
| 22 | He dismissively described how this man had ‘ come in , taken the material provided , and then had written a childish and critical book on the police , out of which he got a Ph.D . ’ |
| 23 | Men who were drunk at market were put in these cells till sober , and then had to pay a penny to get out . |
| 24 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 25 | He graduated from Valdese High School , studied chemistry at Wake-Forest University in North Carolina and then had to face a hard choice between his parents ' wishes that he return to work in the family businesses and his own strong interest in chemistry . |
| 26 | The more resentful and unforgiving Willie Morgan , was taken to court and then had to terminate a lucrative six year contract after only nine months . |
| 27 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
| 28 | Recently there has been a certain amount of paranoia from agents who have been tied to short-term agreements , and then have lost a band to the highest bidder just as the act is becoming successful . |
| 29 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 30 | But excavations have so far failed to support this image and indeed have indicated a town in decline . |