Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 2 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 3 | I agree with Kev — I reckon 3–1 is a good bet for tomorrow.But one word of warning … years of painful experience has taught me one golden rule in football betting — NEVER back your own team — there 's nothing more guaranteed to jinx them . |
| 4 | unc The last exercise has taught you three things : |
| 5 | I mean Jim was saying that Winston has given them two weeks off so |
| 6 | But in the last few weeks , John Major has given us two particularly staggering examples . |
| 7 | Colonel Jensen has given us one case of fossils and promises us more . |
| 8 | Elaine Moss , in her short article ‘ The ‘ Peppermint ’ lesson' ( 1986 ) has given us one of the best accounts of the happy marriage of the right reader with the right book . |
| 9 | Scuba World in its magnanimity has given you five chances to get it right . |
| 10 | And finally , Oxfordshire waterskier Shelley Nutt 's sparkling talent to twist and turn has earned her one of the sport 's top honours . |
| 11 | Romania 's inability to provide quick ball and their fumbling loss of possession often allowed the Scots to counter-attack from deep positions with the same instinctive fluency that has earned them 130 points in four games at Murrayfield this year . |
| 12 | His baggy rambles about his day-to-day , metropolitan life , and his energetic use of his body in his joke-telling ( he calls it ‘ physicalising ’ , but then he did drama at university ) has earned him two appearances on Tonight With Jonathan Ross , about a million bookings per week on the London circuit , and a place in the hearts of audiences and promoters . |
| 13 | The fact that it has won it eight out of ten years is n't registered , only glee that it has been beaten . |
| 14 | This quote from Jean Aurenche , who co-scripted Tavernier 's first three features , identifies the driving force which informs all the director 's work , and has made him one of the leading European directors today . |
| 15 | His discipline , his dedication , and his pursuit of excellence may not have made him the most charismatic of world class players , but it has made him one of the most respected . |
| 16 | McAvennie 's peroxide reign has made him one of the most recognisable anti-heroes in Scottish football . |
| 17 | His amusing analysis of human frailty has made him one of the folk world 's more unlikely heroes — a bard who takes the knocks but never shows the bruising . |
| 18 | Eliot 's death of the corrections to his original writings , and then the corrections that Ezra Pound made , and Ezra Pound has made them ten times better . |
| 19 | It was the launching pad for a media career that has made her one of the highest paid people on British TV . |
| 20 | Fuzzy Logic has made it two wins out of two … |
| 21 | has made it two nil . |
| 22 | ‘ Jobs , jobs , President Clinton has offered us 50,000 jobs this summer . ’ |
| 23 | The National Health has told us one and a half percent if we want an extra day 's holiday , if we want an extra day 's holiday , then we would have to take three days , we could take two , that would leave us with half a percent . |
| 24 | Erm we 've got we had two hundred and pounds fifteen pence on deposit which has raised us one pound ten pence interest over the year , leaving us at two hundred and twenty one pounds twenty five pence . |
| 25 | He married hometown girl Vera in 1971 and she has borne him five children , including twins . |
| 26 | A prodigious runner , Mehew 's pace and fitness give Rovers the appearance of playing 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 at the same time and his willingness to get into the penalty area has brought him four goals already this season . |
| 27 | At present , his forthright batting has brought him 4690 Test runs , at the creditable average of 30.26 , with seven centuries . |
| 28 | Then turn to the D&S Times back page : ‘ Traders claim the new Darlington pedestrianisation scheme has cost them thousands in lost earnings , ’ says a splash report . |
| 29 | The area cost adjustment which the er government takes out of the total S S A's of some two hundred million has gone to the south-east , I hope none goes to Westminster , and that has cost us one point three million . |
| 30 | So the the whole operation has cost us fifteen pounds . |