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Example sentences of "[noun sg] and have [verb] " in BNC.

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1	A moment to consider this , then my father had closed the door gently , returned to the wheel and had proceeded to continue the tour of the three villages — a tour , Mr Charles assured me , that was completed thereafter in near silence .
2	He 's converted to their religion and has adopted the name , Spotted Eagle .
3	The EC has cut funding for aerial spraying and has initiated support projects in tsetse-free areas to help farmers increase production , improve marketing and minimize the need for more land .
4	In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry .
5	The secretary of the new NILP branch was Ivan Cooper , who had come to public attention the previous year when he resigned from the Bond 's Glen and Claudy Young Unionist Association and had stood as an Independent candidate for the Londonderry Rural District Council .
6	He 's a former chairman of the magistrates association and has spent thirty one years on the bench .
7	They do n't all have the same erm facilities as Sussex , nor indeed the same tradition of town and gown relationships , but nevertheless within the university there are several groups of people wanting to develop ideas of literature festivals or performance arts events , which we try and encourage because erm we have very little money within the Arts Association and have to maximise whatever facilities and people that we can lay our hands on .
8	Sri Lanka had been at the forefront of Asian intellectual thinking and had gained a good reputation for human rights and civil liberty before these recent years of violence and oppression .
9	Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done .
10	( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done .
11	I stayed with Plowman , the Consul , and his wife : they had been in Addis Ababa for the coronation and had invited me to visit them at Harar .
12	Sir Francis records his pique that , having made these efforts , he was not even given a free ticket for the Coronation and had to buy his own .
13	Indeed , it emerged that he had been convicted of killing the child of a former girlfriend and had assaulted the defendant and her 3-year-old daughter .
14	Andrew Richens was 17 when he stabbed William Choi , who he claimed had boasted of having sex with his girlfriend and had taunted him by saying she had probably never had a real man before .
15	It seemed certain that the dead man in the park had attacked the killer and had left his mark — many people mentioned a cut and a badly bloodstained face .
16	SOMEONE was only saying the other day in the Red Lion that the demon drink is a killer and has reduced many a man 's life to misery .
17	He had lost his gate entry card and had to open the boot of the car to reveal his clubs as proof that he was a player .
18	‘ I 'm forever forgetting my gas mask or identity card and having to go back for them , ’ Anne said .
19	THORN EMI Software , the computer services division of the electronics and entertainment group , has been bought out by its staff and management in an £82m deal and has taken a new name .
20	Morgan Stanley and Nomura International are arranging the deal and have assembled a group of 10 international banks to underwrite and sell the bonds in the Euromarkets .
21	The officials who control Premier League and Football League matches want a better deal and have produced a 14-page discussion document listing their main problems .
22	During Edward 's short reign , England had grown much closer to continental Protestantism and had begun to embrace the nascent Protestant internationalism being fostered by Calvin at Geneva .
23	She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year .
24	The exercise had made the public familiar with the coalition and had given the local branches of the three parties experience in working together for a common purpose .
25	Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements .
26	This " corrente sinistra " within the party fostered a certain antipathy towards the US members of the government coalition and had found areas of agreement with the PSD on some policy issues .
27	No more trying to remember what 's needed or forgetting some vital ingredient and having to trudge back to the shops .
28	I want continuous ventilation in a bedroom and have decided on a trickle ventilator .
29	He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment .
30	But the IMS rule has done away with this bonus and has rated the foretriangle and the mainsail area equally , leaving the rig configuration to the designer .