Example sentences of "[noun] had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINGER-AND-SONGWRITER Channi Singh had a dream come true when one of Bombay 's biggest movie moguls asked him to pen the music for a multi-million pound cinema extravaganza , writes Michael Tarat . |
| 2 | Eileen Sandford , vice-chairman of Shrewsbury 's housing committee , said the borough had a waiting list of more than 4,000 . |
| 3 | Speed had a stormer as a central midfielder but how can we keep him there when Batts gets back ? |
| 4 | Speed had a couple of good efforts , one from a narrow angle which missed the junction of post/crossbar by inches , and another which hit the outside of the post . |
| 5 | A further example of an indirect restraint is found in the case of Mineral Water Bottle Exchange and Trade Protection Society v Booth ( 1887 ) 36 Ch D 465 where a trade association had a rule that no member should employ an employee who had left the service of another member without the consent in writing of his late employer until a period of two years had elapsed from the time of the end of his employment . |
| 6 | The Credit Services Association had a Code of Practice which was strictly enforced , and all creditors were advised to stick to CSA agencies . |
| 7 | However , the question whether , apart from the undertaking , the association had a right to make representations was not in issue in that case . |
| 8 | Throughout the years up to the publication of the 1921 Report , the Association had a policy of alternating the occupants of its presidential chair between men of letters ( such as Saintsbury , Bradley , Ker , Herford , and Gosse ) and representatives of the official parliamentary culture ( including Acland , Balfour , Morley , and Asquith ) . |
| 9 | The across-the-board respect for green thinking had a lot to do with this change in atmosphere — so too did the disappearance of the ‘ Soviet threat ’ . |
| 10 | How could you tell if a horse had a pain ? |
| 11 | In fact everything about him was shiny ; his hair , face , clothes , briefcase , shoes , fingernails , even his ears had a shine to them . |
| 12 | I refer , of course , to the coincidental oddity that each side had a Smith and each side had a Pringle . |
| 13 | Swathes of coloured gauze separated silver benches , and a twisting staircase on one side had a cobweb of azure spangles hanging over it . |
| 14 | I refer , of course , to the coincidental oddity that each side had a Smith and each side had a Pringle . |
| 15 | His girlfriend had a heart transplant . |
| 16 | Robert Louis Stephenson had a phase for it , ‘ To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive , and the true success is to labour ’ . |
| 17 | Robert Louis Stephenson had a phrase for it , ‘ To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive , and the true success is to labour . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Mummy had a photographer last week , ’ he said . |
| 19 | In the morning Creed had a meeting with a city bank . |
| 20 | Addressing the " peace summit " on May 24 , de Klerk attacked the ANC 's boycott , while Buthelezi denied that Inkatha had a policy of using violence . |
| 21 | At Skelwith Fold , THE OLD MANOR had a gallery over the front door , which was north-facing , and again , the woodwork is preserved within the house . |
| 22 | Now three seasons old , Athletico had a surprise 2–1 first round victory over Shedford Sunday in the first year , before going out to Nettles 5x Lager/Kellys Spicy Bacon Bites Division One champions , AFC Brampton by seven goals to less . |
| 23 | In both 1981 and February 1982 the Fine Gael/Labour coalition had a PV of 46.4 , but its PS fell from 48.2 to 47.0 . |
| 24 | Spring had a spring in her lithesome step ; the birds were trilling in what , over Birmingham , passes for sky ; and the wicket was , according to Wisden , in decent condition . |
| 25 | When a title of a book was given there was discussion about it ; book lists had a paragraph about each book saying who thought what about it . |
| 26 | He was angry when wife number one Neile Adams had a baby girl : ‘ He went into total shock . |
| 27 | She said an ex-boyfriend had a house across Lake Pontchartrain they could use for the weekend . |
| 28 | Among ADAS 's five regions , the NAO discovered that only the south-west had a strategy for delivering public good advice on pollution , diversification and conservation . |
| 29 | Weatheralls had a shop there — mackintosh people — with a deep doorway . |
| 30 | T. J. Clark for the defendant argued that the adequacy of consideration is not to be investigated ; that the defendant had a right to complain and that promising to forgo that right constituted good consideration . |