Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had all been a far cry from the excitement of her engagement to the handsome young houseman when the Stevenses had celebrated with a party in the garden of their home . |
| 2 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 3 | Karadjordje had to contend with a group of strong-willed oligarchs who enjoyed considerable power within their own territories and who jealously guarded the various perquisites which they had acquired , such as the levying of ferry tolls and local taxes . |
| 4 | When the farmer went to the barn after hearing gunshots he had found the body of the younger worker , but Janotte had vanished with a shotgun . |
| 5 | Wilson had responded with a statement saying that the administration of Hong Kong was currently the responsibility of the United Kingdom and the Hong Kong government , and declaring that construction of the project would go ahead . |
| 6 | Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio . |
| 7 | Daisy was Fred 's bird , a freckled teenager with red tabby hair whom Arthur had entrusted with a slice of his savings so that she could open a boutique . |
| 8 | America , Crowninshield had said with a note of amusement in his voice , was doomed for ever to have toothsome Presidents , and all because television now ruled politics . |
| 9 | He told the Committee that Only Singapore had persevered with a road pricing scheme , and while Hong Kong had withdrawn its . |
| 10 | On Nov. 30 it was revealed that the protracted custody struggle over seven-year-old Hilary Foretich had ended with a New Zealand court granting custody of the child to her mother , Elizabeth Morgan . |
| 11 | ‘ Ah , Wilson , ’ Miss Hawarth had said with a smile , ‘ the keeper is more important than the house and then there are your connections , you know . ’ |
| 12 | Turnbull had to retire with a shoulder knock in the second half but he was so drained and short of breath that he could not finish his sentence . |
| 13 | Robbie had woken with a start , and now she sat up , her heart pounding erratically . |
| 14 | ‘ Especially when he 's been cagey enough to tie the showing to a charity affair , ’ Caroline had added with a sigh . |
| 15 | Tohou opened the scoring in the 11th minute when she beat goalkeeper Jo Thompson and after Mary Nevill had levelled with a penalty stroke within a minute , Tohou made the game safe with her second goal two minutes from time . |
| 16 | Two adolescent girls in New Zealand had killed with a brick the mother of one of them just because they wanted to . |
| 17 | At the beginning of February the Coastguard sector officer in Kirkcudbright had to deal with a pair of canoeists from a college in the middle of the Lake District who strayed into the Abbey Head ranges on the north side of the Solway Firth two days in succession . |
| 18 | That somebody else was Stanley Kubrick , the young director Kirk had worked with a couple of years earlier on Paths of Glory and a man whose greatest success ( 2001 : A Space Odyssey ) and biggest disaster ( Barry Lyndon ) were the result of his mammoth ego . |
| 19 | That place was Dublin , where , at the end of the last war , Harper had gone with a saddlebag full of stolen gold . |