Example sentences of "have [vb pp] at the start " in BNC.
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| 1 | A character wearing the Talisman of Ulric automatically recovers wounds he has suffered at the start of his turn . |
| 2 | Dun & Bradstreet claims that business confidence has declined at the start of 1992 , according to other results of its latest survey . |
| 3 | Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager … |
| 4 | Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager … |
| 5 | I should have screamed at the start — whenever the start could now be said to be . |
| 6 | As Thorfinn had done at the start of his reign , in Fife . |
| 7 | Had they but known , these were the same bushes in which Jim Miller and his pal Tom Sheppard had sheltered at the start of their ill-fated escape bid . |
| 8 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 9 | James 's original idea was for a short sea crossing from Ambleteuse near Calais , where he had landed at the start of his exile , and from here he proposed a descent on Kent . |
| 10 | I closed the gap , but he had gained at the start and that is what gave him the advantage at the finish . |
| 11 | I was pleased at being only a metre behind which I had lost at the start , but it was all really anti-climactic after Stuttgart . |