Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Alice met these two peculiar characters the words of a famous rhyme going through her head : ‘ Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed to have a battle … ’ |
| 2 | At trial , his counsel sought to have the statement excluded because P had not been cautioned again before writing it , which was a breach of the Code . |
| 3 | His counsel sought to have the admissions excluded under PACE. , ss.76(2) ( b ) , and 78 . |
| 4 | Any medical personnel found to have the virus were immediately banned from performing surgery which involved working inside the body , said the spokesman . |
| 5 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 6 | Yeah I think they had their own little meetings in various pubs or whatever after our meetings , and certainly the management in one of the quarries seemed to have a lot of information about what went on in our lodge meetings because of various members of this clique , I think we were all fairly sure that they would be returning to work , it was just when that was the crunch . |
| 7 | The roots of parental involvement go back to the 1950s when primary schools began to have an identity of their own , an identity far removed from the old all-age elementary schools of pre-war years . |
| 8 | Smales was successful with two kicks at goal but by half-time the Kiwis looked to have the game well under control , scoring tries through Edwards and Watson by the 16th minute , and through Watson and Nikau in the three minutes before the interval . |
| 9 | So into the garage the car went to have the seats changed — under warranty , of course — and the ‘ bad ’ pair couriered to Courtaulds for full forensic examination , results of which will be known by the next Running Report . |
| 10 | I am terribly shocked and saddened that Woody chose to have a relationship with Soon-Yi . |
| 11 | Get granddad did have a look at his ears but erm he just had to dropped it erm |
| 12 | Prepared in only a few weeks to satisfy an urgent need for cash on the part of Steinitz , who is building an auction house complex at Saint Ouen in the suburbs of Paris , the auction did have a catalogue covering 352 major items but without printed estimates . |
| 13 | He said that Mr Lang appeared to have a vision of a local government closely identified with communities . |
| 14 | Now he knew that the Darkfall effect did have the answer to those questions and that Bissell could give him those answers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Since 1870 , Banks insisted , the association had had an office in the town devoted exclusively to the rescue of women and children . |
| 17 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 18 | On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road . |
| 19 | All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back . |
| 20 | It was absurd ; if Parkes had had a gun it would n't have been a .22 . |
| 21 | The year before , 1820 , Joss had had an accident with gunpowder , which , although his eyes escaped injury , disfigured his face , so that he looked ‘ like an old man of 60 . ’ |
| 22 | During the meeting Yassir Arafat , the PLO chair , stressed that the PLO had had no alternative but to support Iraq during the Gulf war . |
| 23 | For a minute I thought my luck had changed and something good had happened , like Malpass had had a heart attack and I had a corpse in the back . |
| 24 | Commentators suggested that the attempt had had the support of wealthy former politicians , whose ambitions had been foiled by Babangida 's refusal to allow the " old guard " of politicians to stand for office on the return to party politics . |
| 25 | The boat had had no luck on the West coast . |
| 26 | She goes on to say that the justices came to the view that the justice on the Friday had had no power to remand Mr. Bell in custody until the Monday , as the remand did not fall within the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 and that , accordingly , they no longer had any jurisdiction to hear the matter . |
| 27 | Modernism had had no truck with narrative momentum ; and Eliot 's Post-war plays , which began with The Cocktail Party ( 1950 ) , were always more compelling as moral analysis than as plot . |
| 28 | I offered the booklet to GHQ , Simla , but after two months had had no reply . |
| 29 | They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her . |
| 30 | Well it would have been very nice if my clients had had the opportunity of a fair trial . |