Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [noun] had [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was no-one in the car and cattle had churned the ground so much that we could not with certainty detect footprints in the vicinity of the car 's entry into the water . |
| 2 | Up to 20 other leading figures in industry and business had refused the job . |
| 3 | A sustained campaign of legal action and demonstrations had delayed the start-up date until 1986 . |
| 4 | A sustained campaign of legal action and demonstrations had delayed the start-up date until 1986 . |
| 5 | Sir Thomas Gray of Heton said that the peace was not in accordance with the king 's will and that the queen and Mortimer had used the opportunity of the king 's minority to arrange the whole thing . |
| 6 | Hawthorn and oak had colonised the same embankment . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't trust the French , ’ the famous writer and philosopher had told the young man . |
| 8 | ( Press reports of Sept. 27 cited PLO officials as apparently confirming that on the previous day Ashrawi and Husseini had addressed the PNC , while Le Monde reported the " audition " of Ashrawi and Husseini by the PNC , " although nobody outside the members of the congress ' political committee was allowed to see them and therefore provide tangible proof of their presence " . |
| 9 | The estates had been neglected in the war and Sharpe had begun the laborious task of repairing the years of neglect . |
| 10 | As the opening production was Gypsy Baron , where Ingrid was taking the lead and Therese had to play the role of an eighteen-year-old village maiden , it was n't hard to guess what most of the jokes were about . |
| 11 | He found first , that the chief executives did not play as strong a leadership role as Bains recommended ; second , that professionalism and departmentalism had prevented the development of a corporate management team ; and third , that the policy committees were frequently not supported by the full range of subcommittees suggested by Bains . |
| 12 | He sought mandamus directed not to the visitor but to the provost and fellows to reinstate him on the grounds that the provost and fellows had breached the rules of natural justice . |
| 13 | Whatever the nature of their relationship , it was clear that husband and wife had shared the same flat . |
| 14 | Desmond and Dominic had joined the Cheshire Regiment and Shaun the Royal Air Force , so the Anderson house seemed very quiet . |
| 15 | According to an Izvestiya report of March 4 , defections to both sides of the conflict and desertions had reduced the 1,800-strong regiment to 300-350 men . |
| 16 | After casting about in vain for several minutes to pick up their quarry 's lost line , their frustration had abated into impatience and Satan had led the pack off in the direction of the tree-line to the westward . |
| 17 | A father and son had occupied the post for approximately 100 years between them , and the son hardly put in an appearance during the last fifteen years of his appointment . |
| 18 | He had wanted to go to the convent many times , but common sense and will-power had won the day until then . |
| 19 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 20 | Respectable society and intellectuals had shunned the movies because they saw no need to take them seriously . |
| 21 | Suddenly , sleazy accounts of the murders appeared in book form , Manson 's image was plastered on the covers of such respected magazines as Life and Rolling Stone , Manson T-shirts , bumper stickers and recordings of his songs were available everywhere , and it seemed that the bizarre element of the Family 's life and crimes had captured the imagination of both freaks and straight society . |
| 22 | The UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) reported in early 1990 that drought and desertification had reduced the Lake Chad basin to 10,000 sq km as compared with 28,000 sq km 30 years previously . |
| 23 | It was all so despairing that Nicandra felt quite jolly when they had closed the window and barred the shutters on their escapade and Robert had restored the lamp to its standard . |
| 24 | But events elsewhere were passing them by , and by 1958 customary caution and reluctance had led the Nordic states to the point where any move would be a reaction to external developments , a point wryly made later by Per Haekkerup , the premier of Denmark : ‘ No stone was left unturned , no question unanswered . |
| 25 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 26 | Members of a House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology had criticised the quality of Commission research . |
| 27 | There was the gleam of a Marat in his eyes , and his eloquence took on a Satanic ring when he invoked the rising wrath of his colleagues against the festering scum that by cowardice and sloth had reduced the British Empire to a moribund thing , in peril of annihilation . |
| 28 | And when they got there , they found that both anticipation and anxiety had overestimated the occasion , for like the reception at the Hôtel de Ville , the dance was nothing but a stifling , uncomfortable , noisy , joyless crush . |
| 29 | He upheld his official and Harley had to play the ball as it lay . |
| 30 | The public grew to hate the licensors , and Parliament eventually uncovered widespread corruption in their operation — fraud , extortion and intimidation had made the whole system a scandal . |