Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If you want any letters posted , ’ Fen said , ‘ I have to go into the next town we come to .
2 In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis .
3 Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’
4 Here we have stumbled on the first of many .
5 Fairly soon one realises that red means melodrama , and blue means romance , and you wonder if you have stumbled across the first romantic novel of the post-communist era .
6 Lynch , who fell on Barney Maclyvie at the first 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have been told that a lot of good jockeys have fallen at the first fence in their first ride in the National and then gone on to win the race next time .
7 CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today .
8 Average property yields have fallen for the second consecutive quarter to 9.2pc , according to property agent Hillier Parker .
9 COT deaths in England and Wales have fallen for the third consecutive year , Government figures revealed yesterday .
10 Although the numbers have fallen in the last decade , a high proportion of the world 's children do not even have the opportunity of having protection from some of the major childhood killers , diseases for which vaccines are available — measles for example is a major cause of childhood mortality .
11 Cases of salmonella food poisoning in Britain have trebled in the last three years and are at an all-time high , according to government statistics .
12 But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year .
13 And er Alan keeps saying , you can do it but you have to wait to the next programme coming through and I specifically asked for Liz to put it on .
14 In Birmingham , the dealers have gathered for the 11th British Antiques Fair ( Thursday to the following Wednesday ) , while over the Border , there is still time to catch Pen Panting 's second one-man show , at the Glasgow Print Studio .
15 Rising costs , a more sophisticated travelling public and much greater competition from numerous holiday attractions , which have developed within the last 10 years , have made it virtually impossible to run two commercial railways in such close proximity .
16 Two million have enrolled in the last twenty one years .
17 Geldart drools with enthusiasm when he speaks of some of the players who have broken into the first team or are on the verge .
18 Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition .
19 ‘ If the response we have received to the first phase continues we will embark on the creation of a ‘ mirror scheme ’ , ’ he said .
20 Have pencilled in the 7th shall we go for LeSapt again ?
21 Hareven 's view is that economic circumstances have eased in the twentieth century , for most people , so that the alignment of individual time and family time has increasingly become a voluntary matter , whereas the stark economic conditions of the nineteenth century made this an absolute necessity ( Hareven , 1978 ) .
22 It lets you back up ( and restore ) whole disks or selected files and/or directories — including the option to back up only files that have modified since the last run .
23 The reason why some of us have voted against the Second Reading and will vote against the guillotine is that , unless we put into effect this procedure of opposition , there is no proper way in which objections can be fairly and adequately considered .
24 COT deaths in England and Wales have dropped for the third year in succession .
25 Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery .
26 In the past six years , living standards in Côte d'Ivoire , the CFA 's giant , have dropped by a third .
27 Labour MP Terry Lewis , who sponsored the Bill , says it 's been successful in New South Wales , Australia , where alcohol related accidents have dropped by a third .
28 Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years .
29 ‘ We have reviewed the results and the fact is we lost as many as we have won over the last two seasons , ’ said Bates .
30 Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century , when a girl 's linen box , full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets , was part of her dowry .
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