Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each episode had to end with a cliff-hanger and repeat this at the start of the next episode . |
| 2 | Disclosure that a particular Committee had dealt with a matter might lead to argument about the status of the decision or demands that it should be endorsed by the whole Cabinet . |
| 3 | So it was that Edward Carrington became the driver , and so it was they turned up at Florence Drive to learn that Major Barrie of the Home Guard had gone with a lieutenant and two soldiers of the Eleventh Cameronians to escort the prisoner to Maryhill Barracks , on the other side of the city . |
| 4 | ‘ Not exactly a time to go visiting , lass ! ’ that lady had said with a sigh . |
| 5 | On her way to the house she stopped off in the Campo San Maurizio to see if Annunziata had everything she needed for the dinner she was preparing to welcome Comfort , and discovered that the English post had arrived with a letter from George Wilson . |
| 6 | Demarcation problems were foreseen if a county court had to deal with a dispute involving men of different counties , or when a " criminal " fled from one county into another . |
| 7 | By the time we found a space to stand in comfort most of his drink had gone with a gulp . |
| 8 | By the mid-19th century the Machine Age had arrived with a vengeance , which was only fitting , since that Age had itself begun in the west of Scotland . |
| 9 | That career had peaked with a part as a junior barrister in Granada TV 's Crown Court . |
| 10 | Madeleine struggled forward with her bags that the Customs man had marked with a chalk sign , into their cheek-to-cheek embraces . |
| 11 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |
| 12 | After that she had detected an almost imperceptible but important change in him , and their love had ignited with a power of body chemistry that sometimes disturbed her . |
| 13 | The world had returned with a vengeance . |
| 14 | His form had continued with a win by several strokes in the Madrid Open and a high finish in the Italian Championship . |
| 15 | But contempt had returned with a vengeance , erasing everything else the moment he realised she did n't know what to do when he changed the boat 's direction . |
| 16 | Thus there could be no economies of scale in case a sleeve cut from one lay of medium blue had to go with a dress cut from another lay of so-called medium blue . |
| 17 | Just as Quexos 's Law required , his story had begun with a trio : himself , John Furie Zacharias , and between them , Judith . |
| 18 | The weekend had begun with a briefing from the Major and from a purported Russian spy seeking to defect to the west and who , meanwhile , was staying in a safe house . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh yes ’ her mother had said with a smile of-surprisingly-reminiscence ; ‘ the dashing types usually are in the end . ’ |