Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The complaint , filed on 19 December , stated that the government had had a duty to inform Pan Am of information in its possession that a terrorist organization was planning to place a bomb on a Pan Am flight from either Frankfurt or London , specifically on Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 , and had ‘ negligently failed to inform Pan Am ’ . |
| 32 | The Yard had had a tip months before that a big drug-ring was setting up a new and major operation in England . |
| 33 | Already in Carolingian times the imperial army had had a nucleus of fully trained warriors who served their lord in exchange for holding substantial fiefs . |
| 34 | The Court of Appeal stated that the Board did have a duty to act fairly which entailed granting B and K the opportunity to satisfy them of matters in the statute , and to let B and K know the impressions of the Board so that they might be dispelled ; but the Board did not have to quote ‘ chapter and verse , ’ nor did it have to disclose the source of its information if it would be contrary to the public interest , nor did the reasons for the refusal have to be given . |
| 35 | The trees were too close together and the snow-covered gorse seemed to have a life of its own , blocking our passage with its thick stems . |
| 36 | Last week BBC2 's Newsnight happened to have a reporter travelling down the AI , the ‘ backbone of Britain ’ , and what he laid bare was a chain of slipped discs and abscesses . |
| 37 | More importantly , I think , his bride needed to have a character of such irrefutable dignity that such questions were irrelevant . |
| 38 | Several teenage mothers in this book had had a home tutor and most had enjoyed it . |
| 39 | In the year 1981/82 it became clear that the evaluation project had had a number of ‘ spin-offs ’ , for instance : |
| 40 | Presumably the box had to have a master . |
| 41 | The Jura alien had had a lot to say about Tellenorean life-forms . |
| 42 | Then the American millionaire had had a heart attack . |
| 43 | If the kitchen had had a serving hatch , I could have scared the living daylights out of them . |
| 44 | The government was still the king 's government : the monarch retained great influence over the administration and to the end of the century expected to have a say , even a dominant say , in the making of policy . |
| 45 | The inquiry will seek to find out how the prisoner came to have a razor . |
| 46 | During 1973–5 , in the wake of the oil crisis and the Middle East War , the company had had a borrowing facility from the Midland Bank of £100,000 yet they were , in fact , overdrawn by some £300,000 . |
| 47 | Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name . |
| 48 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 49 | The family seemed to have a bias towards pink . |
| 50 | Yes , the Rat Pack did have a lot of fun . |
| 51 | And if his visits were not curtailed there had to be a risk that , when Vitor saw Thomas a second time , or a third , or a fourth , he would recognise the resemblance , add up dates , and realise that his mother did have a grandchild ! |
| 52 | Before experiencing a Methodist conversion , Bamford senior had been a noted drinker and wrestler , but even at that time had had a taste for books . |
| 53 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 54 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |
| 55 | If our house had had a glass front like the neighbours the car would have gone straight through . |
| 56 | Keith Rankin , representing Michael Lowther said his client had had a childhood of abuse and was of limited intelligence . |
| 57 | Cromwell had seen that while a monarch with some claim to divine authority could rule three separate kingdoms separately by virtue of his three separate crowns , a republic had to have a parliament that united all of the British Isles . |
| 58 | This was that although the District would be explicitly recognised as the Responsible Body for Chapter III courses throughout the rural areas scheme , if any class wished to have a Chapter III category course organised by the Cambridge Board the WEA would agree to the Board assuming providing powers for the purpose of meeting the wishes of the students in the class . |
| 59 | Mother had to have a nose in . |
| 60 | Of course her mother had had a sister — Elaine . |