Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 2 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 3 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 4 | The IAC held a press conference to trumpet their document and announced that every international athlete had signed it with the exceptions of Steve and me . |
| 5 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 6 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 7 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 8 | Dolly had reduced it to the size of an irregular-sided marble . |
| 9 | A circle of light illuminated the group gathered round the bank of screens ; another shone on the blue box , the battered structure that the Doctor call his TARDIS , standing where the androids had left it near the edge of the room . |
| 10 | The Briton would presumably have also been issued with a name-badge but with a British horror of self-advertisement had taken it off the moment he could . |
| 11 | Joseph had made it through the gate , but was cornered by the populace in an alley . |
| 12 | In despair at the greasiness of her hair , Daisy had washed it in the river — how the hell had women coped in biblical times ? — and it had dried all crinkly . |
| 13 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 14 | It 'll Be All Right on the Night host Dennis Norden searched for his cordless telephone , only to discover that his pet dog had buried it in the garden of his London home . |
| 15 | The profession 's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma , forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality . |
| 16 | They said the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , had discussed the proposal with the Egyptian president , Hosni Mubarak , in Cairo on Wednesday and Egypt had put it to the United States . |
| 17 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 18 | They later discovered he 'd broken his leg in a road accident 6 weeks earlier , and although Odey had taken it to the vet he 'd ignored advice to have it operated on . |
| 19 | It must be nesting , and now my near approach had driven it off the nest . |
| 20 | He had actually defended the town after another caller had described it as the most polluted place in the world . |
| 21 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 22 | At the corner of the Privy Garden some gas engineers were returning a repaired main to service , flaring the gas to make sure no air had entered it during the work . |
| 23 | The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 . |
| 24 | The shooting took place after two OMON units trying to intercept the bus had chased it into the centre of Vilnius . |
| 25 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 26 | He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband . |
| 27 | Barry had flung it into the hedge . |
| 28 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |
| 29 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 30 | President Carter had applied it in the form of an embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union after the Christmas 1979 invasion of Afghanistan ; and it was to prove as ineffective as the Arab oil embargo . |