Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 2 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 3 | I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention . |
| 4 | During the hot summers I 've had a lot of lettuce and tomato with maybe a bit of fruit . |
| 5 | There 's one happening today in ten minutes I 've got a car waiting outside |
| 6 | Sure enough , within a couple of minutes I had raised a trucker . |
| 7 | Within 10 minutes I had found a suitable love-nest at the Glasgow Green , some 200 yards from the High Court . |
| 8 | No , I 've got to revise for my erm science test tomorrow and I 've got loads of stuff to do , I 've got to keep going for the weekend , actually I have n't got that much to do , I 've got drama that I can do if you just would be so kind turn over to number three so I can have a look at some adverts I 've got a , will there be any adverts after |
| 9 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 10 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 11 | In the past six months I 've worn a pair for a variety of purposes , from rock climbing to trekking , from gardening to pubbing and they 're still presentable . |
| 12 | Over the past few months I have noticed a slight decrease in the amount of information being sent for publication in Touchline . |
| 13 | In higher grade cases , some Down 's people have undergone operations , either at their own or their parents ' instigation , to alter the physical characteristics which have become a stigma for them . |
| 14 | Nothing like the rave parties which have become a controversial feature in the countryside . |
| 15 | What he had n't mentioned was that we would be dining out in restaurants which had attracted a nod from Michelin , a faint damn from Gault-Millau or a paragraph of wet-dream prose in a British Sunday . |
| 16 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 17 | When this is translated into indoor office accommodation , it is those complexes which have adopted a planned approach that are deemed most ‘ user friendly ’ . |
| 18 | Founded in 1977 by art collector , philanthropist and businessman Jan Mitchell , the prize is awarded to authors of new books which have made a significant contribution to the study and understanding of the visual arts . |
| 19 | In the meantime , Stirling was back in action at Kabrit , preparing to bring up B Squadron , which was formed from the new recruits who had finished a somewhat abbreviated training course . |
| 20 | While the government negotiator Fanus Schoeman insists that the ANC has agreed to share power because a government of national unity is power-sharing , the ANC leader Nelson Mandela said on Saturday that an interim government of national unity was not power-sharing and that the body would include all parties who have won a certain proportion of seats in a constituent assembly . |
| 21 | But it is the Japanese manufacturers who have made a poor showing in the DSP arena — probably due in part to a lack of commitment and feeble marketing . |
| 22 | Well one would have thought so , but I said to er Mrs you see , about the minibus , no not the minibus , the M S bus being available and , I said the problem was or maybe that we 'd have to have drivers who have had a P S V licence , or what they call it ? |
| 23 | Before the end of the session , we shall also be contacting centre co-ordinators , asking for information about first destinations of candidates who have completed a general SVQ . |
| 24 | Just who was this attractive fifty-year-old woman with the warm brown eyes who had found a place in Dad 's heart so quickly ? |
| 25 | I know several inspectors who have refused a college scholarship , arguing that the time spent away from the force was time spent in structural limbo , and it has become almost a common adage that time away is time lost in ‘ the promotion stakes ’ . |
| 26 | So through that dismal day Hugh Templar sat at his kitchen table and pursued the adventures of a team of space-travellers who had discovered a world directly behind the sun , which was a mirror-image of our own Earth , with the same physical composition , but with a rather different kind of population , a race having strange and , I hoped , thought-provoking ideas about how to run their planet … |
| 27 | It is applied in molten form — making it a voidless , seamless material — only by craftsmen who have served a four-year apprenticeship . |
| 28 | As many of our readers are non-members we have included a page ‘ What is the NCT ’ . |
| 29 | I 've got a picture of the way I want us to play , and if I can get that picture in 15 heads we 've got a chance of playing the way we want to . |
| 30 | I 'm pleased to say that in the course of the last six months we 've seen a strong recovery in profits . |