Example sentences of "a [noun sg] have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from this , the Emperor was afraid that if the Duke de Montpensier , who was married to Isabella 's sister , became King there would be a civil war in Spain as there had been in 1830 , when ‘ a sister had dethroned a sister ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ When a submarine 's had a spectacular patrol , yes . |
| 3 | DPP ( 1937 ) , where a driver had killed a pedestrian whilst overtaking another car . |
| 4 | It was the night a driver had put a letter into Molly 's hands and called her Signora Kettering . |
| 5 | If a writer has produced a song he or she thinks is a must for Cliff Richard , a major publisher is most likely to get that song where it needs to be in order to interest Cliff . |
| 6 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 7 | Also until such time as a creditor has lodged a proof of debt , he can not vote at meetings of creditors . |
| 8 | Unknown to me a honeybee had made a hive in this part of the wall and not long afterwards I became aware of an angry bee searching frantically for the entrance to its hive . |
| 9 | A scientist has designed a bank cashpoint machine that you can talk to . |
| 10 | But in Nephila and many other spiders , the value of b will be low as once a male has located a female 's web , he stays there . |
| 11 | Gabriel popped up out of his barrel to see the brawl which was just beginning when suddenly everyone froze , as if a wizard had cast a spell over them . |
| 12 | A friend with a Spitfire has bought a similar machine and a small group will no doubt emerge to enjoy this new game . |
| 13 | Police hunting a man who threatened to kill a pensioner have released a security video of her attacker . |
| 14 | In each of these cases the victim of a fraud had signed a document not understanding what he or she was doing . |
| 15 | A bakery had become a betting shop and a draper 's had turned into the offices of a building society . |
| 16 | A Monastery has won a tourist award for providing some of the best accomodation for holiday makers . |
| 17 | Finally , that a poet has written a good poem does not mean he or she is always capable of another , and to read Duck 's career as an arrested development may be sentimental . |
| 18 | And who as a result has acquired a rather topsy-turvy view of her own importance . |
| 19 | A critic had coined a phrase for them and it was taken up as a catch phrase — ‘ They dance as one woman and what a woman . ’ |
| 20 | ( a ) Once a shareholder has incurred a debt or liability to the company , it has an equitable charge on the shares of that shareholder to secure payment which ranks in priority to later equitable interests and , it seems to earlier ones of which the company had no notice when its lien became effective ; and ( b ) in determining whether the company had notice , section 360 has no application ; if the company knows of the earlier equitable interest ( because , for example , a transfer of the shares has been lodged for registration even if that is refused ) it can not improve its own position to the detriment of the holder of that known equitable interest . |
| 21 | Once a chemical has entered a pond and caused widespread damage , it is essential to take everything out and scrub the entire pool several times , emptying and refilling with clean water before restocking with fish and plants . |
| 22 | Sometimes the photographs seemed exactly the same , or so it appeared until , somewhere in the frame , I would realise that a rock had rolled a few feet or yards , a tree was missing , a scarp subtly altered , and one had the sense of some immensely leisured , tranquil calibration of infinity . |
| 23 | As a juror , would you find that a defendant had committed a serious crime on such a basis ? |
| 24 | To my surprise this man who could not swim a stroke had covered a quarter of a mile towards Malta , judging by the fluorescine trail . ’ |
| 25 | Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen . |
| 26 | While out ploughing a horseman had noticed a stoat some distance away stalking a rabbit . |
| 27 | and er there was a , a , erm a car , a car had hit a barrier earlier on in the day |
| 28 | The practical question which this paper also addresses is ‘ how can one tell when and whether a lawyer has done a good job ? ’ . |
| 29 | In assessing whether a child has satisfied a statement , teachers are asked to record attainments as ‘ emerging ’ or ‘ mastered ’ . |
| 30 | Well , to me if a child has got a by all means encourage along but you should n't push them into anything cos later on in life they get a bloody complex about everything you know if they |