Example sentences of "have [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps she has boiled some books , but that is another matter altogether .
2 Allen stresses that HAH , which takes about 400 patients a year and has received some help from Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts , enables some people to by-pass the local hospital altogether .
3 For this reason , the suggestion is made , and it has received some sympathy within the profession , that the audit partner , but not the firm , should rotate .
4 Since 1981 , the Centre has received some funding from the city which now provides an annual budget of SFr390,000 ( £177,250 ; $248,000 ) , covering almost exactly one half of its operating costs of SFr 800,000 .
5 Even Craig Cwm Trwsgl in Cwm Pennant , home of the classic Exterminating Angel , has received some attention with Lloyd-Jones and Clive Stephenson adding Blinded By The Light , E4 5b , 6a , to the crag ; this route being a counter-diagonal to Day Of Reckoning .
6 Gossip has received some attention in anthropology .
7 The figure has now been recognised as a late fifteenth-century masterpiece and it has aroused some excitement in the art world , but there is still perplexity as to its author .
8 The Academy has developed some links with foreign companies to make up for the cash shortfall ; most notably , it has recently sold software to analyse gas distribution in pipelines to Ruhrgas in Germany .
9 They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise !
10 Nearer home , the LAFC has undertaken some self-examination regarding the unnecessary use of two Counsel and excessive claims for legal aid fees .
11 I look up , aware that Mrs Tamm has placed some document silently beside the cuttings book .
12 Stuart has given some thought to the ground that needs to be covered , although nothing is final .
13 In clearly stating the terms of conditions of sale , SLAD has given some backbone to the dealers ' frequently invoked claim that they ‘ guarantee their goods ( unlike the auction houses ) ’ .
14 One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere .
15 The Commission has given some guidance on how to distinguish between cooperative and concentrative operations in a published notice .
16 Ackroyd has given some readers the impression that the modern narrative , the paler of the two , is paler on purpose — in obedience , presumably , to the doctrine of time , of its runnings-down and recurrences , which figures in the novel .
17 He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another .
18 ‘ The cup suits us in so many ways and at least it has permitted some stability and provided a focal point in the absence of a league challenge . ’
19 He has to bear some responsibility for what happened . ’
20 It is true that the industry has to bear some costs .
21 If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract .
22 Royston CAB has come some way towards solving the shelf space problem and the updating costs of holding more than one information system in a bureau .
23 The importance of the shift for the purposes of this book is that the growing competition among states-as-suitors means that government has shed some powers , but taken on others .
24 C Itoh Electronics , the trading house subsidiary which is one of the players in the Japanese X-terminal market has shed some light on last month 's story that Sun was considering building its own X-terminal ( UX No 399 ) .
25 There 's no substitute for this sort of knowledge , gradually accumulated , and when rain has added some depth to your stream you can return to fish in confidence .
26 Fortunately for owners of French homes , the pound 's devaluation has added some 10% to 15% to their value in sterling terms .
27 ‘ Madame Gebrec has recommended some books . ’
28 One of the ideas mooted which has won some support is the introduction of leaflets at outdoor gear retail outlets .
29 The President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine has won some support in his battle to avert a tory backbench rebellion in tomorrow 's debate on the coal crisis .
30 If the vendor is to feel that he has secured a good deal , then he , like the buyer , must feel that he has won some concessions .
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