Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | Mrs and Mrs Singh had received a letter offering Balbinder a place at Cedars . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Hundens Lane resident Ian Haszeldine said members of the allotment association had taken a lot of criticism about the way their land was kept . |
| 8 | Rumours that the Football Association had ordered a replay made it necessary for secretary Sir Frederick Wall to issue a statement confirming the result . |
| 9 | Castle Square tenants association had submitted a petition calling on the council to withdraw the offer . |
| 10 | And yet the best form of relief for this boy whom grief had made a man would be in action . |
| 11 | IF THE Angry Brigade had chucked a bomb through the window of one particular Granada TV studio instead of Employment Secretary Robert Carr 's front room in '71 , the world would be free of Bernard Manning , Jim Bowen , Mike Reid , Stan Boardman , Frank Carson , and Tom O'Connor , such was the northern Working Men 's Club potential and future might of Johnny Hamp 's Comedians line-up . |
| 12 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 13 | COUNTRY singer Billy Ray Cyrus returned to his home in Nashville , Tennessee , from his European tour to find fans had installed a gym . |
| 14 | Prior to his visit to the Middle East , Mitterrand had held a round of talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Paris , and Mubarak had also held talks with visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on Nov. 15 . |
| 15 | Now they were heard to ‘ twitter with execration ’ at the news that the Nazi SA had seized a number of Jews in the town of Worms , thrown them into a pigsty and beaten them . |
| 16 | To my surprise this man who could not swim a stroke had covered a quarter of a mile towards Malta , judging by the fluorescine trail . ’ |
| 17 | Reports in early March suggested that the US administration had defied a ban on military sales to Pakistan by issuing licences to commercial companies worth US$100,000,000 for the export of military spare parts . |
| 18 | On July 13 the Guardian , quoting US officials , had claimed that the Bush administration had approved a list of 100 targets for possible air strikes against Iraq . |
| 19 | After determined application of the economic weapon by the Eisenhower Administration had forced a cease-fire as British troops advanced down the Suez Canal on 6 November 1956 , an exhausted Eden flew to Jamaica to recuperate on 21 November . |
| 20 | Her bedroom had become a nest . |
| 21 | In late January ULFA had issued a statement saying that it was ready to respond to any mediatory initiative [ see p. 37964 ] . |
| 22 | Nine of the team selected against Italy , including new captain Richard Bramley ( Wakefield ) , had represented England U21 's in the hard fought 21–21 draw in May against the French Armed Forces ; two more plus three bench reserves had played a day later in the sweeping 48–12 win against the Netherlands . |
| 23 | Warnings earlier in November of possible default on the debt because of lack of hard-currency reserves had prompted a meeting of G-7 officials in Paris on Nov. 6 . |
| 24 | Unnecessary jealousies had formed a chasm that nothing could bridge . |
| 25 | In Bennett v. Bale the defendant had invited a person to tell lies to disguise what he believed had been the commission of a licensing offence . |
| 26 | In Portsmouth City Council v. Richards [ 1989 ] 1 C.M.L.R. 673 , the Court of Appeal upheld the grant of an interlocutory injunction restraining the operation of sex shops , despite the fact that the defendant had raised a defence under article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 27 | The defendant had produced a program called " Oscar " , a job scheduling program for controlling the order in which tasks are carried out by a computer . |
| 28 | ‘ Dennis had played a seasson for Northants and I got the opportunity to go and see him in Perth , ’ he explained . |
| 29 | Dennis had experienced a period of unemployment , and this , he admitted , had made him much more sympathetic to social-security claimants and even to strikers . |
| 30 | When Ceauşescu had organized a display of different plans and models for the proposed Civic Centre at Neptune , his Black Sea retreat , she had decided to participate . |