Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] had [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't decide whether Eric or the dog had made the noise . |
| 2 | He told his fellow prisoners of an attack on a colonial settlement where the creatures had made the same noises just before they raided and massacred the colonists . |
| 3 | Again no smell except for chrism where the priest had anointed the dead man . |
| 4 | Where the trustee had alienated the trust property , the beneficiary could not follow it . |
| 5 | Then her hand clenched involuntarily on the gate and she jumped , a startled murmur on her lips , glancing down at her finger where a splinter had pierced the skin . |
| 6 | In Bateman ( 1925 ) , where a doctor had attended the confinement of a woman who died whilst giving birth , the Court of Criminal Appeal held that there must be negligence over and above that which is sufficient to establish civil liability , and which shows ‘ such disregard for the life and safety of others ’ as to deserve punishment . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister said in reply to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition that neither he nor the Chancellor had made the remark about unemployment being a price well worth paying . |
| 8 | Swinton believed that the UK had left the conference on good ground because US demands had been so unlimited . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , at a joint press conference with Solanki in Delhi on Jan. 17 , Hurd indicated that the UK had broached the subject of India 's adherence to the NPT ; Solanki claimed , however , that the NPT was " discriminatory " and could not , therefore , be accepted by India . |
| 10 | It transpired that the engine had fouled the points at Eaton . |
| 11 | By then , it was obvious that the Covenanters had won the day and many of the enemy , including Claverhouse , were in full flight from the field . |
| 12 | The fact of all homes in the street having inside WCs was in itself evidence that the planners had earmarked the property as being for professional occupants as opposed to the ‘ working-man ’ . |
| 13 | By that I meant that the Treasury had cleared the papers for Cabinet and that agreement on the policy went back several months . |
| 14 | Confusion about the real cause of the accident was compounded by press allegations that the crew had ignored the advice of air traffic controllers who had instructed the pilot to adopt an alternative flight path , avoiding the over-crowded suburb , to effect an emergency landing at Schiphol . |
| 15 | Juliette Drouet , the mistress of Victor Hugo and his companion on his travels , was put out that a woman other than herself should have been able to make this ‘ difficult ascent ’ and claimed that the Duchess had needed the services of thirty guides and helpers ; less jaundiced reporters speak only of two . |
| 16 | If no regeneration of mycelium was observed on the minimal medium without uridine , it was concluded that the nuclei had lost the ura + transforming gene during growth on non-selective medium . |
| 17 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 18 | Time would show that the campaign had misjudged the reactions of the British public . |
| 19 | Chantler , their economic adviser , told the new Minister frankly that the Conservatives had over-estimated the reality of controls , and most of his colleagues shared his view that any new system of control could scarcely be worse than the one they were attempting to use . |
| 20 | Peter Costain , chief executive , admitted that the company had followed the wrong strategy when it continued to buy into commercial property at the peak of the market . |
| 21 | During the course of the case , Greenpeace produced evidence claiming that the company had notified the NRA of its intention to discharge heavy metals into the Irish Sea from its Whitehaven plant in excess of its pollution consent limits , but that the Authority took no action to prevent it . |
| 22 | A company spokesman , Jerzy Pietraszek , was quoted as saying that the strike had caused the loss of 25,000 tonnes of electrolytic copper from the planned annual production of 320,000 tonnes . |
| 23 | A company spokesman , Jerzy Pietraszek , was quoted as saying that the strike had caused the loss of 25,000 tonnes of electrolytic copper from the planned annual production of 320,000 tonnes . |
| 24 | The unions claimed that the strike had received the support of 80 per cent of the population . |
| 25 | Rebecca had silk slippers on her feet , with the device that the King had granted the Everards embroidered on them : it had amused her , during the serene days between squalls on the voyage from Plymouth , to sit on deck and stitch the image of the seamonster harnessed by the naked man , halfway up to his waist in water , while natives in feather skirts cavorted on the shore behind . |
| 26 | The reaction of any neutral bystander could only be that the judge had become the adversary of the defence . |
| 27 | Lord Denning M.R. circumvented section 441(3) by finding that the judge had misconstrued the words in section 411 , had thereby made a jurisdictional error , and therefore , relying on Anisminic and Pearlman , the ‘ no appeal ’ clause was ineffective . |
| 28 | The report ended with the information that the judge had told the jury that it would be very dangerous to record a conviction without independent support for the girl 's story . |
| 29 | On the eve of the ceremony in the stone-built parish church at Crathie , on the edge of the Balmoral estate , it was realised that the registrar had got the groom 's name wrong . |
| 30 | The government claimed that the attackers had crossed the nearby border from South Africa . |