Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But rather than fade quietly from view , Colin Angus has racked up a hit album , ‘ Boss Drum ’ , hit singles and , with ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ , orchestrated a good old-fashioned tabloid fuss into the bargain . |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 3 | A court in London has heard how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Clumber Park . |
| 4 | An inquest has heard how a footballer died in a scuffle with friends who were trying to stop him drink driving . |
| 5 | An inquest has heard how a man died in a scuffle with friends who were trying to stop him driving while he was drunk . |
| 6 | And Sheffield Crown Court has heard how a man allegedly kidnapped and raped his wife ; the man who ca n't be named for legal reasons , was separated from her at the time of the supposed attack , and the case is making legal history . |
| 7 | A court has heard how a father gunned down a drugs dealer who 'd been supplying his sons with cannabis . |
| 8 | An inquest has heard how a woman fell twenty five feet to her death from a lorry which crashed on a motorway bridge . |
| 9 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 10 | Lord Reid 's view that the restraint of trade doctrine only applies if the convenantor has given up a freedom which he previously possessed was supported by Lords Morris and Hodson . |
| 11 | Next door has given up a right of way that goes nowhere . |
| 12 | French tennis has given out a message . |
| 13 | ‘ French tennis has given out a message ’ , says Haguellar . |
| 14 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 15 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 16 | The village has attracted only a trickle of visitors . |
| 17 | ‘ Chalon has picked up a stone . ’ |
| 18 | The wind has picked up a bit , and there is a light snow falling . |
| 19 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 20 | Oh no what 's he Gavin Ward has picked up a back pass . |
| 21 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 22 | The company has picked up a string of new applications for the manufacturing , financial and education markets to run under the HP MPE/iX operating system . |
| 23 | We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus . |
| 24 | But now it 's not increasing as quickly , its gradient has come down a bit . |
| 25 | Michael Zander , professor of law at the London School of Economics and one of the members of the commission , has carried out a survey of courts . |
| 26 | Canadian market research firm DMR Group 's Australian subsidiary , in conjunction with AUUG — the Australian Open Systems User Group — has carried out a survey of open systems strategies down under , polling some 1,000 organisations on their views of open systems technology . |
| 27 | Warwick University has carried out a survey of management handling of industrial relations in multi-establishment firms . |
| 28 | Labour has carried out a trawl of Departments in order to find something for their Labour colleagues in Newcastle to do and to justify giving them a huge bureaucracy and their own budget . |
| 29 | The only water course in this area of which this department has carried out a flood study is the Gogar Burn , which discharges to the River Almond at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 30 | The Times Higher Education Supplement has carried out a number of peer reviews of UK University Departments over the years . |