Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , Bill Pertwee — again a staple member of the cast — remembered for me , Kenneth Horne made him write to the wife of an executive he thought Ken had insulted at a party given by the BBC for the Round The Horne cast . |
| 2 | Cole has worked at a variety of catering units run by High Table in his five years with the company and has now been promoted to executive chef . |
| 3 | His mouth was dry again , last week Conker had shied at a gorse bush and he 'd come off . |
| 4 | Tina and Bruce had met at a farm dance near Gore . |
| 5 | ROWAN Atkinson has hinted at a return to TV for the villainous Blackadder in a fifth series of misadventures . |
| 6 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 7 | On July 8 the Russian President Boris Yeltsin had announced at a press conference in Munich after talks with leaders of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38990 ] that Russia had made a political decision to withdraw an estimated 130,000 troops from the Baltic states , and that an agreement " on a schedule for the withdrawal of troops for the second half of this year and for 1993 " would be signed " soon " . |
| 8 | Although relations with China had improved at a less dramatic pace , in 1990 a South Korean team had participated in the Asian Games in Beijing and a trade agreement between the two countries had been signed [ see p. 38623 ] . |
| 9 | Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent . |
| 10 | Wendy had worked at a local hospital as a clerk in medical records before giving up work to look after her children . |
| 11 | Police discovered later that Lorna and Vernage had met at a children 's home years earlier . |
| 12 | The Group of Rio had suggested at a meeting with Foreign Ministers of the European Community ( EC ) member countries , held in the Irish capital , Dublin , on April 10 , that the EC should " institutionalize " the dialogue between the two blocs in order that commercial and technological co-operation could be encouraged with those countries forming the Latin American Association for Industrial Development ( ALADI ) which , in addition to the Rio countries , included Chile , Bolivia and Ecuador . |
| 13 | Jonadab had followed at a more leisurely pace , not wishing to appear too eager to hear Annie 's news . |
| 14 | Trade within the EEC had expanded at a rate double that of trade with non-members , and the EEC had also become the world 's largest trading power . |
| 15 | As a young man , Paul had studied at a London yeshiva . |
| 16 | Already during the uncanny calm of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the winter of 1939–40 , Hitler had hinted at a successful end to the conflict during 1940 , and at the same time had further blamed England and France for deliberately prolonging the war through their influence on previously neutral countries . |