Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
2 | so Roger had to leave a note for him . |
3 | Meanwhile Bathsheba had spent a day and a night as a willing prisoner in a small bedroom in her house . |
4 | Soon Endill had found a room that he thought would do for his workshop . |
5 | Meanwhile Phoebe had taken a shower , found some clean knickers , mounted her bicycle and ridden off to her appointment at the clinic . |
6 | Somehow Beador had got a sniff of it . |
7 | On the assumption that he or she might not have carried the murder weapon away Wycliffe had ordered a search of the foreshore , and a police frogman was floundering about in the shallow off-shore waters like a porpoise on the point of stranding . |
8 | It was her last clutch at hope — her final chance that somehow Mark had made a mistake , hallucinated … anything . |
9 | Meanwhile Rachel had taken a taxi to the museum ; she had entered by the back door and exchanged a smile with the doorkeeper . |
10 | probably Simon had thrown a stick for him . |
11 | And now Sutton had formed a coterie of cronies round him and was appointing the wrong staff , which had to be stopped at once . |
12 | In a similar situation some years ago Rwanda had to abandon a plan to move the last 146 elephants in the country 40 km through a densely populated area because they could not find anyone in Africa who could run the drive . |
13 | Two weeks ago Simon had raped a girl whilst carousing in Old Fish Street then compounded his crime by brutally beating her . |
14 | When Lewis said to come back with him and eat there Adam had got a kick on the ankle from Anne and another kick when he had n't replied . |