Example sentences of "and have [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Moynihan blamed his defeat on the ‘ collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote , which came from Labour some years ago and has to some extent returned there ’ . |
| 2 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 3 | If so he wonders if the patient needs to cry and has for some reason stopped himself . |
| 4 | Speranskii 's consequent package of reforms is too complex to be analysed in detail at this point , and has in any case been thoroughly investigated by Marc Raeff . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) A solicitor 's employee who would not otherwise qualify under sub-paragraph ( 1 ) ( b ) of this rule to manage an office and who was 50 years of age or more on and had at that date been continuously employed in connection with the practice of that solicitor for not less than 20 years shall , provided he or she exercised the duty of management at that date , be entitled to continue to do so until retiring or attaining the age of 70 years , whichever first happens . |
| 6 | She was jumpy and had at one point been startled by her own shadow . |
| 7 | She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun . |
| 8 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 9 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 10 | His infuriated wife , who had learned little of him since his departure , and had in all probability imagined him on a chain gang in some inhospitable region , had since learned that her husband was enjoying a rich existence with the high rollers of Sydney . |
| 11 | Sydney Greenstreet was too old to be taking much of an interest , and had in any case become obsessed with some obscure quest of his own , neglecting his ‘ business ’ . |
| 12 | That statement had been true and had in any case not been made by Moorgate Mercantile , since H.P.I. was not an agent of Moorgate Mercantile for the purpose of making such a statement . |
| 13 | Unlike their daughter , Meg could understand why , after retirement , they had used all their savings to buy the rectory and had in old age burdened themselves with a mortgage . |