Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in 1963 The Times carried the cheerful news that a Mr Cock had married a Miss Prick . |
| 2 | Yonhap quoted an official as saying North Korea had accepted a US proposal to meet again in Beijing , possibly as early as next week , and a senior Seoul government source told Reuters the talks were to be held after after a current US-South Korean military exercise , Team Spirit , ended . |
| 3 | In November 1990 the DPP had formed a Taiwan Sovereignty Independent Movement Committee to advocate what the party asserted was Taiwan 's " independent sovereignty " which excluded mainland China . |
| 4 | Director William Sterling had spotted a Sunday magazine photograph of her taken by Lord Snowdon , arranged to meet her and shortlisted her with two other girls to meet Shaftel ; after a couple of screen tests in full costume , she was offered the role . |
| 5 | Fortunately the rumour began to circulate that Disraeli had used a WP and suddenly computers were ‘ in ’ . |
| 6 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 7 | He had visited the studio on and off through his time with Vanessa — he 'd even met Martine there on two occasions when her husband had cancelled a Luxembourg trip and she 'd been too heated to miss a liaison — but it was charmless and cheerless , and he 'd returned happily to the house in Wimpole Mews . |
| 8 | The fact that Spain was not a democracy had warranted a UN condemnation in 1946 . |
| 9 | With the scandal closing around him , Abe had entered a Tokyo hospital , where he was arrested by officials of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor 's Office . |
| 10 | In September 1991 the Greek government had rejected a US request for his extradition , and his trial had opened in October 1991 . |
| 11 | Earlier , the government had ignored a UN deadline ordering the release of the IAEA inspectors along with all documents " they deem appropriate " by Sept. 24 . |
| 12 | In the meantime France had built a DBS satellite — TDF-I — with , if not nowhere to go , few programmes to show : the Luxembourg government , various ( non French ) private sector TV channel consortia , and other potential partners and clients , had been alienated , as successive French governments dithered and dallied , and technologies — and the cost of their application — evolved . |
| 13 | It was still running in New York , where Ellen Burstyn had won a Tony award for her performance as the mistress whose married lover conducts their affair on a once-a-year , same-time-same-place basis . |
| 14 | The press could provide little enlightenment because all newspapers had received a D-Notice asking them not to print any details about the background to the case . |
| 15 | One of these doctors had consulted a Dr. D. who was the pre-eminent expert in the treatment of anorexic cases . |
| 16 | Barry had entered a Florida alcohol abuse centre on Jan. 22 , four days after being arrested in the Vista International Hotel , Washington , where he was filmed smoking crack cocaine in the room of a former girlfriend , Hazel " Rasheeda " Moore [ see p. 37180 ] . |
| 17 | On June 29 , 1989 , West German police had raided a Düsseldorf company , Rheineisen Chemical Products GmbH , in connection with alleged shipments to Iran of chemicals capable of manufacturing mustard gas . |
| 18 | She said a third man being sought by the police had telephoned a Kirkby inspector and said he was sure the case would end because witnesses were not brave enough to give evidence . |
| 19 | The tombstone inscriptions and the parish register entries reveal that Abigail had married a William Scott , who died in 1655 , and that three years later she had taken John Pilmay as her second husband . |
| 20 | William Farrell had seen a Renault 25 car parked beside a crash barrier as he drove past . |
| 21 | MNR leader Afonso Dhlakama had cancelled a July 19 meeting in Rome with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jeffrey Davidow , claiming that the government planned to assassinate him . |
| 22 | Leese case had opened a Pandora 's box of possibilities for the racial nationalists . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , on the following day Doe had refused a US offer of assistance to leave the country . |
| 24 | Later when we were enjoying a beer with the station commander were we nearly disposed of when it was announced that the Stirling had clobbered a Coles crane , an ambulance , several minor vehicles and the CO 's Humber . |
| 25 | Sam and Duncan McCrea raced down to the street where Lou Collins had left a CIA car should the listeners in the apartment need transport . |
| 26 | By 1904 , Michael Joyce had obtained a United States passport . |
| 27 | And Glentoran went even closer when Gary Smyth hit the inside of the post after Keenan had fumbled a Hillis cross . |
| 28 | BRITISH International Helicopters yesterday announced the company had secured a North Sea contract with Ranger Oil — the first to be awarded to the company since last month 's management buyout . |
| 29 | Man of the match Kernaghan 's first international goal was a firm header from Irwin 's cross seconds after Apanavicius had cleared a Kevin Moran header off the goal-line . |
| 30 | In the late Seventies , the couple had bought a Tudor farmhouse in Pinner which they extended and refurbished to create a luxurious five-bedroomed house . |