Example sentences of "a [noun] had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from this , the Emperor was afraid that if the Duke de Montpensier , who was married to Isabella 's sister , became King there would be a civil war in Spain as there had been in 1830 , when ‘ a sister had dethroned a sister ’ . |
| 2 | DPP ( 1937 ) , where a driver had killed a pedestrian whilst overtaking another car . |
| 3 | It was the night a driver had put a letter into Molly 's hands and called her Signora Kettering . |
| 4 | Unknown to me a honeybee had made a hive in this part of the wall and not long afterwards I became aware of an angry bee searching frantically for the entrance to its hive . |
| 5 | Gabriel popped up out of his barrel to see the brawl which was just beginning when suddenly everyone froze , as if a wizard had cast a spell over them . |
| 6 | In each of these cases the victim of a fraud had signed a document not understanding what he or she was doing . |
| 7 | A bakery had become a betting shop and a draper 's had turned into the offices of a building society . |
| 8 | A critic had coined a phrase for them and it was taken up as a catch phrase — ‘ They dance as one woman and what a woman . ’ |
| 9 | To my surprise this man who could not swim a stroke had covered a quarter of a mile towards Malta , judging by the fluorescine trail . ’ |
| 10 | While out ploughing a horseman had noticed a stoat some distance away stalking a rabbit . |
| 11 | and er there was a , a , erm a car , a car had hit a barrier earlier on in the day |
| 12 | A bailiff had found a pig wandering where it should n't and , according to city regulations , had promptly cut the animal 's throat . |
| 13 | Karen had watched , wide-eyed , as this woman like a chainsaw had cut a swathe through the young men of their department at the university , apparently unconcerned with looks , or wit , or age . |
| 14 | He kept staring out the car window like he was a cat had broken a saucer . |
| 15 | By the 1890s the wives of skilled men did not usually work , for the ability to keep a wife had become a measure of working class male respectability . |
| 16 | And a slug had left a trail across one leg . ’ |
| 17 | Hazel had eaten various roots in his life , but only once before had he tasted carrot , when a cart-horse had spilt a nose-bag near the home warren . |
| 18 | The desire or need for a fresh start arose either because , as in the United States , some neighbouring communities wished to unite together under a new government ; or because , as in Austria or Hungary or Czechoslovakia after 1918 , communities had been released from an Empire as the result of a war and were now free to govern themselves ; or because , as in France in 1789 or the U.S.S.R. in 1917 , a revolution had made a break with the past and a new form of government on new principles was desired ; or because , as in Germany after 1918 or in France in 1875 or in 1946 , defeat in war had broken the continuity of government and a fresh start was needed after the war . |
| 19 | The group as a whole had contacted a GP regarding their heroin use on over 200 occasions . |
| 20 | She said a woman had planted a bomb at the base , which houses the Royal Logistics Corps . |
| 21 | Mr Sugar was not at the house yesterday but it is believed his wife , Ann , was at home as a woman had driven a sports car into the grounds earlier , which bore the registration 1 AS . |
| 22 | Just then he stopped at a place where a dog had dug a hole in the ground . |
| 23 | A manager had led a series of employee involvement projects that improved productivity in his region and boosted the firm 's overall profits . |
| 24 | The fact that Spain was not a democracy had warranted a UN condemnation in 1946 . |
| 25 | If a first baiter knew his job , as soon as a man had ploughed a stetch he 'd drop his stick across the furrows . |
| 26 | A man had shot a woman , buried her body in the sands , had been caught and hung for his crime . |
| 27 | He said a man had taken a lunge at him and he had fallen to the ground . |
| 28 | On April 7 it was reported that a helicopter had bombed a village in Sierra Leone . |
| 29 | On March 26 , 1986 , a jury had returned a verdict of manslaughter by neglect following the inquest into the death of a Hell 's Angel , Mr John Mikkelson , while in police custody . |
| 30 | A daughter had become a teacher in a nearby county , and a son had become a technician . |