Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each episode had to end with a cliff-hanger and repeat this at the start of the next episode . |
| 2 | It had all been a far cry from the excitement of her engagement to the handsome young houseman when the Stevenses had celebrated with a party in the garden of their home . |
| 3 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 4 | Karadjordje had to contend with a group of strong-willed oligarchs who enjoyed considerable power within their own territories and who jealously guarded the various perquisites which they had acquired , such as the levying of ferry tolls and local taxes . |
| 5 | Disclosure that a particular Committee had dealt with a matter might lead to argument about the status of the decision or demands that it should be endorsed by the whole Cabinet . |
| 6 | When the farmer went to the barn after hearing gunshots he had found the body of the younger worker , but Janotte had vanished with a shotgun . |
| 7 | So it was that Edward Carrington became the driver , and so it was they turned up at Florence Drive to learn that Major Barrie of the Home Guard had gone with a lieutenant and two soldiers of the Eleventh Cameronians to escort the prisoner to Maryhill Barracks , on the other side of the city . |
| 8 | ‘ Not exactly a time to go visiting , lass ! ’ that lady had said with a sigh . |
| 9 | Gradually , as time passed without this return occurring , Christians had to cope with a world that continued to exist , its end being postponed to an indefinite future . |
| 10 | On her way to the house she stopped off in the Campo San Maurizio to see if Annunziata had everything she needed for the dinner she was preparing to welcome Comfort , and discovered that the English post had arrived with a letter from George Wilson . |
| 11 | Wilson had responded with a statement saying that the administration of Hong Kong was currently the responsibility of the United Kingdom and the Hong Kong government , and declaring that construction of the project would go ahead . |
| 12 | By Easter 1931 , 4 hostels had opened with a total of 130 bed-spaces ; a further 3 hostels opened that summer and an impressive total of 9,926 overnight stays were made that year . |
| 13 | It is possible that one of these earlier attacks had ended with a promise by Alaric II to pay tribute . |
| 14 | Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio . |
| 15 | Daisy was Fred 's bird , a freckled teenager with red tabby hair whom Arthur had entrusted with a slice of his savings so that she could open a boutique . |
| 16 | Demarcation problems were foreseen if a county court had to deal with a dispute involving men of different counties , or when a " criminal " fled from one county into another . |
| 17 | America , Crowninshield had said with a note of amusement in his voice , was doomed for ever to have toothsome Presidents , and all because television now ruled politics . |
| 18 | He told the Committee that Only Singapore had persevered with a road pricing scheme , and while Hong Kong had withdrawn its . |
| 19 | By the time we found a space to stand in comfort most of his drink had gone with a gulp . |
| 20 | On Nov. 30 it was revealed that the protracted custody struggle over seven-year-old Hilary Foretich had ended with a New Zealand court granting custody of the child to her mother , Elizabeth Morgan . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , Wilson , ’ Miss Hawarth had said with a smile , ‘ the keeper is more important than the house and then there are your connections , you know . ’ |
| 22 | Turnbull had to retire with a shoulder knock in the second half but he was so drained and short of breath that he could not finish his sentence . |
| 23 | He saw that they kept in their lines , with their helms and weapons in reach , and went back to the awning his servants had raised with a bench under it , and some saddles . |
| 24 | By the mid-19th century the Machine Age had arrived with a vengeance , which was only fitting , since that Age had itself begun in the west of Scotland . |
| 25 | But how many Sixties and Seventies brides had to wrestle with a £500 stationery bill after the confetti had settled ? |
| 26 | That career had peaked with a part as a junior barrister in Granada TV 's Crown Court . |
| 27 | Madeleine struggled forward with her bags that the Customs man had marked with a chalk sign , into their cheek-to-cheek embraces . |
| 28 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |
| 29 | After that she had detected an almost imperceptible but important change in him , and their love had ignited with a power of body chemistry that sometimes disturbed her . |
| 30 | Robbie had woken with a start , and now she sat up , her heart pounding erratically . |