Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [noun] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Vickers , prosecuting , said the land was owned by Teesdale and District Angling Club and Harty had no licence to fish there . |
| 2 | In the present case , the defendant was well aware that the council had acquired the plot in order to construct a road on it at some time in the future and meantime had no present use for the land . |
| 3 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 4 | He did not see her at all as he got out of the car and Jenna had the chance to observe him without the dark eyes pinning her quizzically . |
| 5 | Philip II of Spain came close to achieving it , before he was defeated by , among others , half naked English mercenary soldiers who ‘ for thieving and brawling had no equals ’ — the ancestors of the football fans who are plotting next year 's ‘ English invasion of Italy ’ . |
| 6 | Against that Wallis women 's wear and Horne had a tough half-year while Selfridges , helped by a return of tourism , held up . |
| 7 | Dad ran a garage and petrol station on the main road through Strathspeld village and Mum had a wee gift and coffee shop ; Dad had been worried after the Six-Day War when they 'd introduced the fifty-miles-an-hour speed limit and even issued fuel-rationing books , but that had n't lasted very long and , even though petrol cost more nowadays , people were still travelling and using cars . |
| 8 | The personalities of his parents , the warmth of family life , and the surrounding heath and woodland had a deep and lasting influence on Hardy . |
| 9 | The causal chain between stimulus and response had a kind of inevitability , an independence from processes which we would normally regard as mental : it by-passed our knowledge of the friend 's personality , history , and basic assumptions about human motivation , the orderliness of conduct , and so forth . |
| 10 | Well it was okay cos Aaron was there , but Whit and Aaron had a bit of a er an argument at one point , |
| 11 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |
| 12 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 13 | The man was hotching with his story and Cameron had no need to prompt him . |
| 14 | Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful ! |
| 15 | The connection between racism and nationalism had no such outlet simply because Germany had no successful colonial holdings . |
| 16 | At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place . |
| 17 | The idea of a God-given nature and destiny had the corollary that nothing so essentially predetermined could or should ever change . |
| 18 | However , Ruby had a resilient nature and Rain had a plan . |
| 19 | Came from Headon near Retford , worked in a wool shop in Retford called Wool Shop and Sandra had a brother called Rodney and a sister named Sharon . |
| 20 | Roads were turned to mud by days of rain and Fiorio had the additional hardship of a bubbling radiator to contend with . |
| 21 | Later , however , I noticed that Hyde 's appearance and manner had a strong effect on other people . |
| 22 | To top it all Mangon and Ethel had a row which unfortunately affected the employment of a large number of dancers . |
| 23 | Mrs Watts sat in a deep chair in a dark corner of the room but Hari had the impression that the woman was like a cat sleeping with one eye open , watching everything that went on . |
| 24 | Real life was then a male preserve but Helen had no interest in the usual option of the women 's pages . |
| 25 | Monaru was bought in for a course record of 11,500 gns after winning the Carlsberg Selling Hurdle but Pipe had no complaints and said : ‘ People do n't have to run in sellers if they do n't want to . |
| 26 | The gist of it was summed up in the formula cuius regio , eius religio which meant that each king or prince had the right to choose the religion of his subjects . |
| 27 | Thereafter the Turkish menace was laid to rest and Venice had no serious challenge to its authority in Dalmatia until Napoleon extinguished the republic itself in 1797 . |
| 28 | Mina and Alexis had a guest in a tiny cottage behind their house , a rather cantankerous English poet . |
| 29 | He did n't appear to have seen her in the water and Rachel had the advantage of watching him unobserved as he strolled along the poolside , a towel slung around his neck . |
| 30 | Saunders had already hit the inside of the post in the 16th minute and Atkinson had a shot from point blank range blocked by Darren Peacock when Rangers began to take control of the opening 45 minutes . |