Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was based on the principle of ‘ a nation in arms ’ , much as Napoleon had employed a levee en masse .
2 In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians .
3 There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him :
4 Mrs and Mrs Singh had received a letter offering Balbinder a place at Cedars .
5 She and Mr Singh had visited the school for a Christmas event and had been pleased to hear that Balbinder was being moved into the second class .
6 The right-wing Hindu-backed Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) formed the state government in Uttar Pradesh , and BJP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had invited an all-party delegation to visit the site after coming under criticism from nearly all political parties for allegedly violating court orders regarding the disputed plot .
7 V. P. Singh had launched an inquiry into the HDW submarine deal on April 9 , 1987 , three days before he resigned as Defence Minister in the Gandhi government [ see pp. 35381-82 ] .
8 The Sun published a front page lead stating that a Labour London borough had banned the teaching of Baa Baa Black Sheep as racist .
9 erm called Bocodonism and it turns out , find out later in the book that the reason they outlawed this is because of the guy Bocodon who was , who originated the religion had made a deal with the head of the state of the country that he would outlaw it , so that 's how the religion thrived , because it was outlawed
10 The CPV had made a number of errors in the past ; it had taken too much time setting forth the initial stage of the transitional period to socialism and had made " many mistakes " in reforming prices , wages and money and in ideological and organizational tasks .
11 Her sidelong glance had caught a quick exchange of looks between them as if Father Devlin were silently saying , ‘ I 've done my share ; now it 's your turn . ’
12 PLYMOUTH had to survive a spirited comeback from Peterborough last night to earn an FA Cup third round tie at Ipswich Town .
13 Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door .
14 Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity .
15 It said it could n't understand why the British Amateur Weight Lifter 's Association had reached the decision not to take action against the two weighlifters .
16 The association had to punish the county , Mrs Nicholl said , because the affiliation fees were their livelihood .
17 On Tuesday evening , the family heard that a housing association had struck a deal with a local farmer to buy a house which will be refurbished , extended and rented to the family , but a last minute call yesterday morning to the Scottish Office for more time to allow the family to move was turned down .
18 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 .
19 In previous years the British Independent Programme Producers Association had taken a stand and we were initially distressed to find that this was not to be the case in 1990 — a decision based on the exorbitant cost ( they will retain a stand at MIP-TV ) .
20 Hundens Lane resident Ian Haszeldine said members of the allotment association had taken a lot of criticism about the way their land was kept .
21 Rumours that the Football Association had ordered a replay made it necessary for secretary Sir Frederick Wall to issue a statement confirming the result .
22 Castle Square tenants association had submitted a petition calling on the council to withdraw the offer .
23 Since 1870 , Banks insisted , the association had had an office in the town devoted exclusively to the rescue of women and children .
24 She went to the houses of friends , she was invited everywhere , but not one of her schoolmates had crossed the door of Maple Gardens .
25 I KNEW that Earl Spencer had made a special provision in his will .
26 His unexpected display of kindness had opened the floodgates again .
27 Cunningham had spent an agreeable week in the country with his friend Van Cheele .
28 We know that Stein had designed an escapement action by 1777 because Mozart describes it in a letter of that year .
29 But these inversions were quite different in purpose and effect from those that Pound had practised indiscriminately in his earliest collections , and thereafter castigated ; these were not poeticisms , but indications that he was addressing a sophisticated urban intelligentsia , that of Great War London , just as propertius had addressed the sophisticates of Augustan Rome .
30 It was only the fourth time that one horse had completed a clear round .
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