Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 2 | The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends . |
| 3 | This phase will only be entered if no errors were detected during the prepass phase and the user has selected to continue at the end of the prepass phase . |
| 4 | As part of a reassessment of its priorities , SERC has had to look at the balance of its forward planning , in particular to ensure that the funding of grants can recover from necessary short-term stringencies . |
| 5 | But Strasbourg 's anti-nicotine brigade has won a consolation prize : the health and social-affairs commissioner , Mrs Vasso Papandreou , has promised to look at a ban in the future . |
| 6 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 7 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 8 | Her body was found in a hall of residence only hours after she 'd arrived to teach at a summer school of the Open University … today courses continued despite the tragedy … |
| 9 | But before you do you 've got to look at the material in the working file . |
| 10 | The few pieces of furniture looked old , solid , and unprepossessing , the kind of stuff that Pete would have expected to see at the bargain end of a market-town auction . |
| 11 | I had to excuse myself and go out of the room , or I would have collapsed laughing at the doctor 's reaction . |
| 12 | I found myself questioning many of their beliefs in a way that I would not have dared to do at the beginning of the study ; I could question them in their own terms and in doing so , test the boundaries of their beliefs . |
| 13 | ‘ If he did he 'd have had to park at the back of St Manicus house since they 've banned parking in the precinct now . |
| 14 | ‘ I think big clubs will always have to compete to stay at the top and these prices show the way the transfer market has gone . |
| 15 | Keener has little technical background , but was always a record nut , having started collecting at the age of five or six . |
| 16 | They say they may have to stop working at the hospital and it ca n't survive without them . |
| 17 | Observed in uncompromising midsummer light , Clytemnestra looked like something that , having lain neglected at the bottom of an old woman 's knitting basket , has finally been brought out to be mended . |
| 18 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 19 | Supposing , just supposing , that Mackay and Parsons had arranged to meet at the cottage . |
| 20 | NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script |
| 21 | My only pen had stopped working at the start of the walk ; in the rain my watch face went blank . |
| 22 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 23 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 24 | That was when Buckley arrived from Kettering , with Grimsby in Division Four , just seven players on the staff and a debt of £850,000 that someone had forgotten to mention at the job interview . |
| 25 | The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ . |
| 26 | At the same time as the Convent negotiations were taking place , the Governors were also advertising for a new headmaster , for Mr. Scott had decided to retire at the end of the Easter Term in 1979 . |
| 27 | Jim had decided to stay at a hotel there till his car was mended . |
| 28 | What they do , I mean just play a game , it 's just a ga it 's a it 's a game , like sort of Simon says , try and catch them out in things , you 'll say right , now you 've got to point at a window , say , and then you have to point at , and you can get them all doing it , you |
| 29 | Let's go and have coffee first , and then I 've got to call at the bank to get some cash , and dump that package , before we start shopping . ’ |
| 30 | We 've got to sit at the back |