Example sentences of "a [noun] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is also a singer and musician , and her talent as a pianist has often come in useful to teachers with specialist classes . |
| 2 | She said , " Mary , a girl has just turned up here , she 's desperate ; she 's in Shaftwood Hotel , you know |
| 3 | Mr Rushdie said that such a meeting would be a ‘ symbolic gesture ’ , adding that a request for a meeting had formally gone in and was on the table . |
| 4 | Owen reached out his hand for the coffee a bearer had just brought in . |
| 5 | By the time she 's thirty — and Eleanor was thirty in spite of appearances — a woman has usually picked up her share of married men . |
| 6 | He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me . |
| 7 | Fernando was n't the proud man she 'd thought he was and Steve was a creep to have just gone off without letting her know why , with whom and for how long . |
| 8 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 9 | A newspaper and now a bank have since taken over . |
| 10 | If a client has successfully carried out a difficult homework task the group can reinforce this success more powerfully than a therapist alone . |