Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The writer had received a bill from St. Peter 's Hospital for £10.5s.6d. : |
| 4 | The writing , which was in blue ink , was small and upright , as though the writer had used a set-square for each character . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The motorspeeder had entered a canyon at least a mile wide . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The impact of the hammer hitting the brass casing of the cartridge had caused a flash of blue light followed by an enormous bang . |
| 16 | The pulpit had won a victory over the theatre , and the stage was thought by many to be a thing of the devil . |
| 17 | If the kitchen had had a serving hatch , I could have scared the living daylights out of them . |
| 18 | And then , when the shouting had reached a climax , there was a ghastly scream from inside the room . |
| 19 | The villanelle had become a triolet briefly , with Tim at TCT , before Bob at Binary had him rethink it as a rondeau . |
| 20 | The owl had eaten a vole . |
| 21 | We saw that the storm had changed a lot of things as soon as we came to the river that marks the end of the island ; it had swollen hugely , carving immense channels out of the sand , great surging brown trenches of water streaming by and tearing lumps from the banks continually and sweeping them away . |
| 22 | The Sardinian had resigned a week after Zen 's transfer , and he was the only one of his former colleagues whom Zen still saw regularly . |
| 23 | That was the only time Patrick had seen tears in her eyes , when the vicar had said a prayer ‘ for those whom we love but see no longer ’ . |
| 24 | As a mark of the recession , about which the Chancellor had said only that morning ‘ in conference ’ that ‘ we could glimpse a bright light at the end of a long tunnel ’ , the quality of the champagne had dropped a notch , while the white wine had every appearance of being a Muscadet . |
| 25 | The ford had attracted a couple of hundred spectators , perhaps the largest-ever gathering in the village . |
| 26 | But once they were on the market , the corp had spent a lot of R and D money coming up with a way to beat them . |
| 27 | Another member of ASUTRAMES explained how the repression increased , until there came a point when the Association had to call a halt to its public activities . |
| 28 | The college had become a body concerned with the formulation and execution of foreign policy and nothing else . |
| 29 | It profited handsomely from the division of the non-Conservative vote between Labour and Alliance , and from the exaggerating effects of the British electoral system ; compared to 1979 , a decline of 1.5 per cent in share of the vote had produced a trebling of the government 's overall majority in seats from 44 to 144 in 1983 and to 100 in 1987 . |
| 30 | The grounds of relief were , inter alia , that there was a breach of natural justice and irrationality as there was no evidence on which there could have been a finding that the applicant had committed a breach of professional misconduct . |