Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 2 | Charlie stared up at his mother 's framed photo that Becky had hung on the wall . |
| 3 | After the execution of Xavier de Chavigny , the German High Command had taken over the house and gardens at St-Cloud and used the beautiful late-seventeenth-century mansion to quarter troops . |
| 4 | Imagine , then , that Mandela had written down the story of his life , and that the manuscript was for sale . |
| 5 | By 1924 Hill had bought out the family interests and established Beecham Estates and Pills Ltd . |
| 6 | His spectacles had shaken down the arch of his nose . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the British warships had to ride out the monsoon . |
| 8 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 9 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 10 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 11 | The words had hung on the air , heavy with innuendo , and an act of simple kindness had been spoiled . |
| 12 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 13 | An earlier wind had whipped up the surface snow into rivulets like tiny mountain ranges , and whirled spirals like ice cream from a machine . |
| 14 | Piers had set up the garden table and two benches , and they had what turned out to be a very edible meal under the fading sun , with a magnificent view overlooking the still blue sea , with all the night noises playing a symphony around them . |
| 15 | The new statute had set out the management arrangements governing the institutions which the county authority had taken over . |
| 16 | As Benny had walked down the town , Mr Kennedy called her into the chemist . |
| 17 | One officer was convinced his superior had spelt out the situation in his corps in detail , so accurate was her diagnosis when she preached . |
| 18 | Every young ram in the village had hung about the place , hunting for what they called a bit of moss . |
| 19 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 20 | Public disapproval had brought about the resignation of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party 's corrupt kingmaker , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 21 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 22 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 23 | Well in in general er the original work plan had divided up the production work to share out the technology and this meant that components were being shipped around more than actually they they needed to be or that was economic and it was found that there was the potential to concentrate manufacturers sub-assemblies for each of the major components of the aircraft and subsequently assemble the major components in one country rather than several . |
| 24 | The FMLN denied claims that its urban commandos had carried out the murder . |
| 25 | More important , young McNab had thrown out the challenge to me … he was a hooligan , a no-gooder , a baitz … . |
| 26 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 27 | Here when the sin in the darkness had been brought to the light its power was broken and in this case confession had battered down the barrier . |
| 28 | Titch had cut back the motor and was scanning the shoreline . |
| 29 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |
| 30 | The Sunday newspaper articles had come out the week before last , and were still bringing in letters . |