Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] have [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |
| 2 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 3 | Eddie explained that the day 's work had started at seven o'clock the previous evening when two customers telephoned requesting samples . |
| 4 | The five-year-old daughter of Tina 's Pet has collected at Leicester , Beverley ( twice ) , Redcar and Doncaster since the start of the season and can improve her record still further by taking the £15,000 Crawley Warren Handicap . |
| 5 | And last night it was revealed that the murdered child 's body had lain at the scene for over four hours because of fears of another blast . |
| 6 | Susan 's husband had stared at her bleakly from the bed , already certain of her betrayal . |
| 7 | IDG 's share has stuck at 27% . |
| 8 | It tasted of candied peel and nuts , and she was reaching for another one when she saw that Lucenzo 's head had lifted at the sound of a child 's piping tones . |
| 9 | I calculated that if Charlie 's train had arrived at King 's Cross on time that morning , he should have already reached Chelsea by now , even if he had had to cover the entire journey on foot . |
| 10 | Lewis 's father had died at sixty and his grandfather at sixty-two . |
| 11 | Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time . |
| 12 | While the ACP countries had sought an overall package totalling 15,500 million European currency units ( 1 ECU=USdollars 1.11661 as at Oct. 27 , 1989 ) over five years , the EC 's offer had stood at 10,800 million ECU when talks broke down on Oct. 30 . |
| 13 | Read what the movement 's spokesman had to say at the time . |
| 14 | His mother 's luggage had arrived at Kings Cross Station in London , and of course nobody collected it . |
| 15 | COLOMBIA 'S army has destroyed at least three million opium poppies in province of Narino , the largest crop ever destroyed in the South American country , the Colprensa news agency reported yesterday . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , therefore , the single person 's pension has remained at around just a fifth of average gross earnings over the whole of the post-war period . |
| 17 | Sadie 's Dad had died at Gallipoli , and her mother had to make do with a tiny pension and the income of the shop . |
| 18 | Johnston is the only member of Roxburgh 's squad to have played at the Parc des Princes , the venue for the match . |
| 19 | Larry 's mother had seen at least part of this . |
| 20 | All factual evidence indicates , for instance , that in the last 20 years , Americans ' health has improved at unprecedented speed — whether measured by mortality rates for the newborn , survival rates for the very old , the incidence of cancers ( other than lung cancer ) , cancer cure rates , or other factors . |