Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German Commandant had dreamt of a mute Jewish whore and when he was issued one for the duration his cup overflowed . |
| 2 | Rostov sorted through the physical descriptions which Burun had supplied of the principal members of the court and knew that he was addressing Va'na Khatun , once a slave and concubine , but now the wife of Arjun and grandmother to the wife of Burun 's own son Jotan . |
| 3 | Relief agencies estimated that approximately 200 people were dying of starvation each week in the Ogaden in the remote south-east , according to reports from mid-October ; malnutrition had sharply increased , with the death rate rising to 12 per 10,000 daily since August , when aid workers had warned of a worsening situation [ see p. 39042 ] . |
| 4 | She had never-quite-known what Dorothy Tuckey , and Magill and Tatham had known of the real loneliness of the hunted . |
| 5 | Certainly , however , if the owners had known of the secret intention , they would not have consented . |
| 6 | The County Council 's environmental consultants had said of the inner northern routes , rather than damaging an irrepr irreplaceable sensitive landscape as could happen with the other routes , the inner northern route could be seen as a means of improving the landscape . |
| 7 | FOR TOO LONG the popular media had conceived of the male fantasy in two tired and specious extremes : the blond bombshell and the whip-bearing dominatrix . |
| 8 | In her last letter , Aahmes had spoken of a new marriage . |
| 9 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 10 | Murtach had learned of a great wolf pack that seemed to roam west of the Skriaig and had been seen by a few desperate hunters seeking deer beyond Ralarth 's borders . |
| 11 | Japanese leaders had thought of a similar division after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 . |
| 12 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 13 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 14 | At that time the guardian 's report had spoken of the intense conflict between the mother and the father and the consequent effect upon the children of that conflict . |
| 15 | Speaking of the Commonwealth at the time of Dunkirk in 1940 , Churchill had talked of the old lion with her lion-cubs about her , and a lion that had beaten a unicorn must have ancient strengths that Modernism and Bloomsbury alike between the wars had failed to acknowledge or to note . |
| 16 | All this had changed when she was thirteen and her five-year-old sister had died of a sudden illness . |
| 17 | This was not new — the Dominican John Bromyard in his Summa Predicantium of the fourteenth century had spoken of the mutual hostility of northerners and southerners ( 230 , p.563 ) . |
| 18 | Only five women out of 50 knew about Mr Milburn while 14 of the male interviewees had heard of the Labour candidate . |
| 19 | The German occupying force on Møn had consisted of a single unit , billeted at Gullshaven . |
| 20 | Up until this time the filtration had consisted of a gravity-fed brick-built filter with three compartments — settlement , brush and Flocor chamber . |
| 21 | The Foreign Office requested an assessment from the War Office in December 1949 to clarify or confirm the analysis the Foreign Office had made of the respective strength of the two sides . |
| 22 | For Zarathustra had spoken of the good and evil spirits as twins and thereby implied that they had a common origin . |
| 23 | That morning Margaret had complained of a bad bout of sickness . |
| 24 | Julie 's mother had become increasingly concerned that the abdominal pain Julie had complained of the previous evening had worsened over-night , preventing her from sleeping . |