Example sentences of "have [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would 've looked at the lights , I know . |
| 2 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |
| 3 | He is the vital element , a striker with so much potential that , if Graham Taylor gives him the same encouragement he has received at Highbury , he will become Gary Lineker Mark II — only better . |
| 4 | If the people sense that a vacuum has developed at the ‘ party centre ’ , and the troops are withdrawn , they will fill the same square with the same demand in a matter of hours . |
| 5 | If the dam , which has leaked at its toe for as long as any one can remember , should collapse , it would sweep away the busy tourist road the B3046 , seven houses and their inhabitants — and quite probably , the Parliamentary career of Peter Maxwell . |
| 6 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 7 | To the east , in Wollo , the Save the Children Fund is intensively feeding 700 out of the 3000 children it has registered at the Korem camp . |
| 8 | They go on again and again and so Carson never has to sit at their feet . |
| 9 | Sally Grace , a dialogue coach who has taught at RADA , has been sent down to Eldorado 's £2 million set in southern Spain to help improve the actors ' diction . |
| 10 | She , too , has taught at Ayton and at Redhouse , Stockton , and is currently on supply at Brambles Farm , Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | Molly Scrutton was invited to teach at a KFA Training Course in Thorpe and she has taught at our own Rallies in Kent and Essex earlier in the year . |
| 12 | Sadly , until his behaviour becomes more reliable he has to remain at arm 's length . |
| 13 | Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] . |
| 14 | ‘ Informants tell us that the enemy has halted at Annan town . |
| 15 | RUSSIANS are numb to the red of the Communist Party and the face of Lenin which has stared at them in public places for decades . |
| 16 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 17 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
| 18 | Such contests permit ‘ horse race journalism ’ ; they make possible endless speculation about who the front runner is , who the dark horses are and who has fallen at what fence , all of which helps to make television news broadcasts more exciting and enter-taining than they would otherwise be . |
| 19 | The £4 million scheme to build 97 one to three bedroom homes for shared ownership is the second contract Wimpey has undertaken at the site for the North British Housing Association . |
| 20 | It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup . |
| 21 | The Bosnian government has protested at the UNHCR 's failure to reach the Muslims in the east by refusing to accept UN aid for the besieged capital , Sarajevo . |
| 22 | Suppose we get 204 , giving herd B ; the second of the systematic sample will be 204 + 293 = 497 which gives herd F. By this means we always obtain two different primaries unless one of the primaries accounts for more than half the secondaries , in which case that primary has to appear at least once . |
| 23 | To maintain satisfactory progress , a part-time student has to pass at least one course each year . |
| 24 | Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying . |
| 25 | Listen to a top art director talking about his job : " I think I am probably better now than I was fifteen years ago but one has to work at it , pushing oneself further and further — subjecting oneself to vicious self-criticism . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , anybody working in a pub , a cafe , a restaurant , a tea shop , a cinema , or serving food or drink of any type has to work at all those times . |
| 27 | Cos he has to work at five o'clock each morning . |
| 28 | Government has stressed at several points that it seeks the development of local district services first , with asylums to close only when the latter services can cope with the patient workload . |
| 29 | Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked . |
| 30 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |