Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun] had the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
2 Throughout the season the air had the peculiar resonance that attends hot weather , carrying sound from vast distances .
3 As they rounded the last corner the leaders had the main field breathing down their necks .
4 By the eighteenth century the trade had the total monopoly on the provision of coffins .
5 On May 2nd this same year the ladies had the inconvenient request of asking that the men be prevented from using the ladies ' lavatory .
6 The authors published their reports at the 2nd Benoxaprofen Symposium in June , by which time the firm had the full texts of the assays .
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