Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macaulay was one of those who had a foot in both camps . |
| 2 | Davies had come on when Swansea scored their second try to take over from flanker Alan Reynolds , who had a foot injury . |
| 3 | The RCM had its Zionist sympathisers and there were those like Lola Hahn-Warburg who had a foot in both camps . |
| 4 | Selborne was of significance because he was a man who had a foot in every camp ; related to the Cecils , he was also a Liberal Unionist , a tariff reformer , a diehard , and a Liberal Unionist . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you know anyone who had a grudge against her ? ’ |
| 6 | Napoleon III , who had a horror of offending anyone socially , said nothing and both he and Eugénie behaved graciously and warmly during the dinner , as though not in the least put out . |
| 7 | Laura , who had a horror of pubs , dedicated her life to improving home comforts . |
| 8 | ‘ Azor ! ’ she crooned , and , feeling a need to touch , to stroke the animal who had a part in Ven 's life , she got down on her haunches to make a fuss of the dog . |
| 9 | We studied 36 women ( mean ( SD ) age 30.8 ( 8.2 ) years ) who presented with oligomenorrhoea , amenorrhoea , infertility , or galactorrhoea to an endocrine or infertility clinic over two years and who had a plasma prolactin concentration of 1000–8000 mU/l ( normal range 80–460 mU/l ) . |
| 10 | The robber , who had a skinhead haircut , took £30 and a rail ticket . |
| 11 | As Thomas was apparently away in Reigate , Marina , his wife , aged 26 , who had a history of mental illness , was charged with the murder . |
| 12 | A child aged 14 in the care of a local authority who had a history of absconding was placed in an open unit from which he absconded and was absent for 94 days . |
| 13 | We excluded from the analysis subjects who had a history of heart attack , heart failure , stroke , cancer , or an unknown periodontal classification at baseline . |
| 14 | Youths rioted for two nights on the streets of Telford in the Midlands after police marksmen shot dead Ian Gordon early on Aug. 12 ; the 24-year-old black man , who had a history of psychiatric problems , had pointed a firearm at the policemen ; two witnesses were reported to have told police that the gun was unloaded and had no firing mechanism . |
| 15 | The comic , who had a history of heart trouble , had become a father for the fourth time only last year , when his second wife Tracey gave birth to their daughter Charlotte . |
| 16 | All the other deaths were of players who had a history of heart trouble . |
| 17 | The same applied to the country services operated by ‘ East Surrey ’ , who had a service from Croydon , passing through Carshalton and Sutton , but followed different roads to the trams ( largely those rejected by the 1902 Act ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I think there have been a lot of people who had a problem in Hollywood because they were too good-looking or too charming . |
| 19 | In the August issue you published a letter from Jonathan Taylor who had a problem using his Seikosha printer with Windows 3 . |
| 20 | It was Noel who had a satellite T.V. system installed , who established the mediatheque and who created what was to become our Services for Export and Language Agency ( SEL ) . |
| 21 | He held off a late charge from Rhuddlan 's Chris Davies who had a hole in one at the 179 yard 13th in his final round to take runners-up . |
| 22 | It was Elise who saw to the accounts and the buying , who had a flair for salesmanship . |
| 23 | Who had a man obsession with a Mormon ? |
| 24 | I was never invited to parties by the children I admired at school like Kathryn Watson who had a kilt pinned with a great silver safety pin . |
| 25 | And this is a boy who used to smoke marijuana and lived in a squat with a girlfriend who had a tattoo on her backside and two kids by somebody else , if you please … ’ |
| 26 | Erm in nineteen fourteen , erm 's , who had a water turbine er as their sort of main motive power for their er milling operations , erm put in or had had , er not only this line , siding , but they had one put in round the back here , erm because that was to provide coal , for steam boilers which were er put in to augment the water power . |
| 27 | This fell into three categories : those who waited for applications to come from staff , those who nominated or requested staff to attend courses , and those who had a system combining the two : |
| 28 | Prisoners in the New Gaol , Southwark , who had sawed through their leg-irons , were besieged by turnkeys and constables in the ‘ strong-room ’ : ‘ the prisoners fired several pistols loaded with powder and ball at two of the constables : when , the balls going through their hats , and the outrages continuing , one of the constables who had a blunderbuss loaded with shot , fired through the iron gates at the window , and dangerously wounded one fellow … |
| 29 | He called Stefan on the radio , who had a look round on the underside of the ‘ Fury and could see nothing wrong . |
| 30 | I thought if I just had a man who had a yacht and he had a rolls royce and a yacht . |