Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defence Ministry had published a decree on Nov. 13 allowing senior officers to be retired " for reasons of renewal according to the needs of each institute " . |
| 2 | The opponent in the West seat had made a call of a weak 2 Hearts , which suggested that he had a 6 card Heart suit and not many high cards in his hand . |
| 3 | The dark pink of the coral necklace had trapped a tendril before curving downwards to the small swell of her breasts . |
| 4 | Rumours that the Football Association had ordered a replay made it necessary for secretary Sir Frederick Wall to issue a statement confirming the result . |
| 5 | Thus in the UK the Natural Environment Research Council had initiated a series of working groups to advise on the needs for future research . |
| 6 | Keith Sheridan took four for 34 , a fine performance by the Poloc spinner , and he had the honour of taking top scorer Kenny Jackson 's wicket , thanks to an excellent catch by David Cowan , only two balls after the Freuchie bowler had dislocated a finger which he put back in himself . |
| 7 | At least once a gossip columnist had run a story about ‘ the lonely and about to be divorced MP for Roundhead East ’ in a column next to the story about Irene Pitt and her husband . |
| 8 | The inquest into his death was attended by friends who were with him last september when he was having a night out in Newent after his football team had won a match . |
| 9 | " We stood off the Belgian coast near Nieuport that evening and received information that Spring Flight had embarked a party of Pakistanis and was leaving harbour . |
| 10 | We made ball and roller bearings for the car trade , the car trade had come a slump and the car trade to this day does n't want one bearing or one detail for a car until it 's ready to put it on a car . |
| 11 | Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth , whose coalition government had won a majority in legislative elections on Sept. 15 [ see p. 38427 ] , announced on Oct. 22 that Mauritius would become a republic on March 12 , 1992 . |
| 12 | An opposition MP had tabled a question in parliament . |
| 13 | The Jura alien had had a lot to say about Tellenorean life-forms . |
| 14 | My sleep/wake clock had bust a spring and I was worried about the fact that it had been Billy Tuckett who had dropped through the skylight . |
| 15 | Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri had held a meeting with leaders of Hezbollah in Beirut on Dec. 21 . |
| 16 | But they survived , all of these men in the Kitchen hut had found a track of survival . |
| 17 | In Lancashire the steam-powered cotton industry had created a form of society that was very different from anything that had gone before . |
| 18 | There was a real engineer among them , and my suggestion about telephone work had paid a bonus , for he had installed a phone in the hole , and the watchers now had a direct link with New Scotland Yard . |
| 19 | 343 ) that where a common law court had decided a case the Court of Chancery had no power to intervene between the parties … |
| 20 | The Falkirk teenager had seen a shopping trolley being thrown on to the line from a bridge and knew that a passenger train was only minutes away . |
| 21 | In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 22 | Two days earlier the Home Secretary had sent a minute to the Prime Minister explaining that he proposed to answer on these lines . |
| 23 | When there were tragic cases of dangerous dogs assaulting young children , the Home Secretary had to produce a Bill overnight . |
| 24 | The Assam government had filed a suit in the Supreme Court arguing that its boundary with Nagaland should be based on the 1925 boundaries of the then Naga Hills district . |
| 25 | I thought that maybe , with the ribber on half pitch , the transfer needle had hit a ribber sinker post . |
| 26 | Now his hunting rifle had lost a piece from its firing mechanism and he had been unable to replace it . |
| 27 | There was a time , he said , when every hunting party had sacrificed a chicken here . |
| 28 | Looking up from her tray of Chicken McNuggets and chips , Mo admitted that parliamentary question time had become a farce . |
| 29 | Director William Sterling had spotted a Sunday magazine photograph of her taken by Lord Snowdon , arranged to meet her and shortlisted her with two other girls to meet Shaftel ; after a couple of screen tests in full costume , she was offered the role . |
| 30 | ( A headteacher friend was aghast to discover that his infant child had spent a fortnight rehearsing to be a road ! ) |