Example sentences of "[art] [noun] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great anger had heated up , one of Robertson 's new windows had been shattered by a stone , and the womenfolk had made a move to drag the teacher out and throw him in the river . |
| 2 | Later when we were enjoying a beer with the station commander were we nearly disposed of when it was announced that the Stirling had clobbered a Coles crane , an ambulance , several minor vehicles and the CO 's Humber . |
| 3 | It had come home to her earlier when she discovered that the Prince had sent a bouquet of flowers to Camilla when she had been ill . |
| 4 | The speech sent shock waves through the medical profession , but the Prince had hit a nerve and , for all the criticism that was heaped on his head in the aftermath , the letters from the public told him he had been right . |
| 5 | The previous day the Pentagon had issued a statement claiming that the photograph had passed through the hands of a " ring of Cambodia opportunists led by a well-known and admitted fabricator " of information about MIAs . |
| 6 | The writer had received a bill from St. Peter 's Hospital for £10.5s.6d. : |
| 7 | The writing , which was in blue ink , was small and upright , as though the writer had used a set-square for each character . |
| 8 | David Ross Stewart , the chairman of ESII , said the board had examined a number of options to ensure that shareholders received a payment to reflect the value of the company 's liquid assets , while achieving a satisfactory long-term solution in respect of the unquoted portfolio . |
| 9 | She also failed to notice the board had hired a teacher with convictions for exposing himself to schoolgirls , or ask why a probationary principal was still in place despite pleading guilty to a $21,000 welfare scam . |
| 10 | As the winner had to add a gold or silver medal to the trophy , it is obvious again that only the wealthy could compete and hope to win . |
| 11 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 12 | There is a story , probably apocryphal , that the surveyors had demanded a bribe of the merchants of Tomsk to take the railway there . |
| 13 | But there had been a time , early in the nineteenth century , in Shelley 's day , where the head and the heart had stood a chance of marching forward together . |
| 14 | The motorspeeder had entered a canyon at least a mile wide . |
| 15 | Auguste failed to see the hidden tensions and passions behind these simple manoeuvres ; to him it only signified that the banquet had acquired a reality . |
| 16 | Whilst I had changed into my second set of wedding clothes Margaret had explained that the Remington-Harts had bought a country house in Downshurst in the last year . |
| 17 | The CPC had released a statement from its three-day conference at the end of May strongly condemning corruption and excessive expenditure and promising to tackle these problems . |
| 18 | In 1990 , the AfDB had funded a 190km road in nearby Sierra Leone , running through one of West Africa 's few surviving stretches of coastal rainforest . |
| 19 | The scope of property includes property of persons who are not themselves visitors ( s. 1(3) ( b ) ) : ( b ) Before the Act , the courts had drawn a distinction between the occupancy duty and the activity duty . |
| 20 | Prior to the Act the courts had drawn a distinction between the occupancy duty , which was concerned with dangers due to the state of the premises , and the activity duty , which was concerned with the occupier 's activities on his premises . |
| 21 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 22 | And if the old boy in the field had got a grudge against the bloke taking it off he used to shove it anywhere so he 'd have to pull it off , instead of following the the seam round , you see ? |
| 23 | Webbed feet were not designed for mountaineering , but after a few weeks the ducks had devised a method of hopping up the stairs one at a time , eating every morsel of bread along the way , until finally they were actually in my bedroom . |
| 24 | As I stared at the German with the white flag , I remembered ( as no doubt the five Frenchmen lying beside me also remembered ) a short time ago in Amfreville a small party of Germans had surrendered and , as the Commando patrol approached , one of the Germans had lobbed a grenade , killing and wounding several members of the patrol . |
| 25 | The Germans had recaptured a number of prisoners , according to the Gazzetta di Parma , but no names were ever published . |
| 26 | The Germans had launched a counter-offensive against the Allied bridgehead at Anzio and air support , against enemy troop concentration and lines of communication , became vital in preventing loss of the bridgehead. 223 Squadron moved from Foggia to Biferno/Campomarino to join 3 ( South African Air Force ) Wing on March 13 and after one day to settle in to the new surroundings was tasked against the San Benedetto marshalling yards . |
| 27 | Although the Germans had used a warning radar since before 1939 , the Bruneval station included a new Würzburg set with its 20-foot ( 6m ) dish aerial able to range guns and direct planes on to a single aircraft . |
| 28 | Disillusion set in as awareness spread that the Government had its own agenda , much of the groundwork having been prepared in opposition by a Labour Party study group which shortly before the election had published a report titled Crime — a challenge to us all . |
| 29 | The guardians had received a string of complaints from the nurses about their accommodation , insufficient lavatories , and deficiencies in their uniforms . |
| 30 | The impact of the hammer hitting the brass casing of the cartridge had caused a flash of blue light followed by an enormous bang . |