Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] have a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I am terribly shocked and saddened that Woody chose to have a relationship with Soon-Yi . |
| 5 | Get granddad did have a look at his ears but erm he just had to dropped it erm |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He said that Mr Lang appeared to have a vision of a local government closely identified with communities . |
| 8 | On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road . |
| 9 | It was absurd ; if Parkes had had a gun it would n't have been a .22 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Paul Bodin then went and missed a penalty and within minutes United had a second from a penalty at the other end … well that 's what the referee said … but there was no question about Paul Allen 's kick … |
| 12 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 13 | School rules required all girls to tie back their hair , and Victoria seemed to have a knack of observing the most oppressive and trivial regulations with grace . |
| 14 | The problem had arisen because the first plan used had a river running through the property — what no-one had realised was that the course of the river had changed , leaving a piece of land unconveyed . |
| 15 | To maintain the dignity of his new position , Elphege needed to have a biography and a complement of musical compositions for his feast-day . |
| 16 | The message added : ‘ The district council has taken legal advice from senior counsel who have confirmed that the district council did have a case which it could competently pursue against the local paper . |
| 17 | Ludens knew that Marcus had spent part of his childhood in London but could elicit no information about this interesting period , except that his parents had had a flat in Knightsbridge . |
| 18 | The reason Jake had had a change of heart was because he had finally realised for himself that Janice would not make a good mother for Kirsty , and that Shiona , on the other hand , would . |
| 19 | The Marshal had called back a number of times and each time the woman 's sobs had had a note of triumph in them . |
| 20 | Novell Inc chief Ray Noorda 's contribution to Bill Gates ephemera is the comment after their two companies had had a disagreement : ‘ To have a heart-to-heart with someone , you 've got to have two hearts … ‘ |
| 21 | The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’ |
| 22 | Mesrine had had a room by the tube station . |
| 23 | Delighted , Benn told a refusenik rally that if the striking miners had had a paper like the Wapping Post they would have won . |
| 24 | Miss Martindale had had a school , but her rigid ideas and stern manner had frightened the children , and their parents had taken them away . |
| 25 | Nigel had had a brain haemorrhage . |
| 26 | One policeman had suffered a detached retina from the blast and one onlooker had had a heart attack . |
| 27 | From 19 study trees in one season , fewer than 4% of the total of more than 430 000 seeds produced had a chance of establishing , for 6% were killed by the parrots , 66% fell under the mother trees and 24% germinated in close competitive clumps in faeces . |
| 28 | In 1750 the town sought to have a linen market set up but met with opposition from Richhill where a linen market had been flourishing . |
| 29 | Conway carried a Ghurka knife in her belt while Marshall pretended to have a shotgun and threatened staff with a scythe and carving knife . |
| 30 | I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles . |