Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they stay for about a fortnight until they have completed their first moult and can fend for themselves . |
| 2 | The band , whose ‘ Silverfish With Scrambled Eggs ’ single stormed the Indie Top 20 in March , have completed their first album for the Creation label . |
| 3 | AS SOON AS YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR FIRST HILL-WALK , A NEW CITY hobby opens out to you . |
| 4 | After you have placed your first order , further half-litres come willy-nilly and are put in front of you , until you decline . |
| 5 | MINERS at Monktonhall colliery have received their first pay cheques for almost two months but uncertainty continues to surround the pit 's future , writes Marcello Mega . |
| 6 | Guaranteed for a full twelve months , the watches will be sent to you once Sun Alliance have received your first payment for the Plan . |
| 7 | I have received your last letter of November 23rd . |
| 8 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 9 | No less than 27 have won their first cap under the England manager but only six of the 13 players he used in Norway were his ‘ new boys ’ Carlton Palmer , Les Ferdinand , Lee Sharpe , David Batty , substitute Ian Wright and new captain Paul Ince . |
| 10 | No fewer than twenty lucky readers have won our third prize of a Recta D0310 compass and a 905 Liquipak . |
| 11 | We can also point to grammatical parallelisms which , although not devoid of content , merely seem to have an elaborative function , providing further examples of a concept already expressed : " The sweetest rose hath his prickle " already conveys , by proverbial extension , the meaning " even the best things are alloyed with bad " , and to that extent , the repetition of the pattern in " the finest velvet his brack , the fairest flour his bran " , is redundant.Lyly might not , one imagines , have added his last piece of pattern , the similitude of sanctity , unless he had hit on the alliteration of " holiest head " and " wicked way " . |
| 12 | I have done my last charity ball . |
| 13 | In fact , I have done my last charity performance ever . |
| 14 | FIREMEN have made their second handcuff rescue in two weeks . |
| 15 | Police in Gloucestershire have made their first seizure of the potentially lethal drug . |
| 16 | Some Conservative Members have made their last speeches in a Second Reading debate on coal . |
| 17 | During the past twenty years , many hymns and songs have had their first circulation in large annual gatherings for events like Spring Harvest . |
| 18 | Dismissive of the ‘ corridor opportunites ’ , he fails to mention that , so far , the Foreign Secretaries of the UK and Argentina have had their first meeting since the 1982 Falklands War , that the Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministers have got together as has the US Secretary of State with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts , or that the two German Foreign Ministers have held extensive talks on the current crisis — all with apparently good results : quite useful when several of these countries have no diplomatic relations with each other . |
| 19 | BOBBY BROWN and Whitney Houston have had their first lover 's tiff … over a pair of pet pooches . |
| 20 | TAKA and Mari , a pair of gibbons , both at least 31 years old , have had their 29th baby and could win a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world 's most prolific monkey parents , said a vet at a zoo in Hyogo , Japan . |
| 21 | Leeds have got their fourth round one tonight against Everton . |
| 22 | WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket . |
| 23 | Although , in general , individuals who have reached their fiftieth birthday are less likely to be tempted than younger people to leave a company scheme for a personal pension or to alter their current self-employed arrangements , if you are thinking of starting your own business , if you are moving to a new job or if you are ineligible to join your company pension scheme , one of the options described below may offer you an attractive solution . |
| 24 | Girls and boys who have reached their third birthday are eligible for the Nursery and applications for a Nursery place may be made at any time . |
| 25 | More than two hundred children whose school was damaged by a severe gale have spent their last day in temporary classrooms . |
| 26 | CHESHAM United have appointed their third manager this season and their fourth in just over a year , following the resignation of Dave Brown . |
| 27 | These promotional tools can be extremely useful to the discerning PRO , particularly for products and services which have passed their first peak of interest . |
| 28 | The MPIs too could benefit from closer contacts with universities : older members who have passed their first flush of creativity would have the opportunity to refresh themselves by teaching , at the same time attracting new young people . |
| 29 | It is not usual to find brand managers or copywriters in advertising agencies who have passed their 40th birthday . |
| 30 | Sunseekers : Staff at Port Sunlight Heritage Centre have welcomed their 25,000th visitor this year . |