Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [noun] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Battle of Britain , Air Chief Marshal Dowding had the incomparable advantage of information from Ultra and he monitored its signals very carefully ; he knew , therefore , that only fifty per cent of the German aircraft were then serviceable , and so , on 15 September he sent up every available fighter plane against the enemy . |
| 2 | The Rev. Fred Levison had the help of several distinguished Ministers , and in John Page 's case , surely a distinguished Minister-to-be . |
| 3 | A Missouri court ruled on Dec. 14 that Nancy Beth Cruzan had the right to die . |
| 4 | In an effort to defuse growing social tensions , the increasingly uneasy government of President Lansana Conte had the previous day announced a two-stage doubling of public-sector pay , improved family allowances , and the halving of ministerial salaries , but these measures were rejected as insufficient . |
| 5 | Perhaps Robert Louis Stevenson had the right idea in his travels in the Cevennes . |
| 6 | Rob Beattie Rob Beattie had the great vision and foresight to launch What Personal Computer back in 1989 . |
| 7 | According to US press reports on May 18 , President George Bush had the previous week overruled the wishes of the Environmental Protection Agency and given industry a major concession over the implementation of the Clean Air Act as amended in November 1990 [ see p. 37847 ] . |
| 8 | But he drew the line at including gurls , because gurls were less than zero — J M Barrie had the right idea there . |
| 9 | But former Blueman David McCallan had the last laugh on Linfield with a brilliant winner four minutes from time to put Bangor into the Bass Irish Cup semi-finals for the first time in 25 years . |
| 10 | Solange Auxias de Turenne had the idea of staging an open air exhibition of Moore 's sculptures in Paris after visiting a garden made especially for his large-scale bronzes at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda in 1989 ; the suggestion by the City of Paris to use the Gardens of Bagatelle was approved by the Director of the Henry Moore Foundation , Sir Alan Bowness . |
| 11 | In the spring of 1942 , Major Gus March-Phillips , Major J. Geoffrey Appleyard , who served with 7 Commando in the autumn of 1940 , and Captain Graham Hayes had the SSRF in training at Wareham ( Dorset ) , where they did a lot of boat work , especially in dories . |
| 12 | Although outwardly a man of the Establishment , Bill McEwan Younger had the self-confidence to adopt unorthodox views which stood the test of time . |
| 13 | Maybe , but Mark E. Smith had the back-up knowledge to defeat any oncoming verbal attack from journalist or punter . |
| 14 | Jimmy Gibson said Northern Ireland people had the tendency to ‘ complain with a smile ’ . |
| 15 | Mohammed Al Fayed had the temerity to snatch Harrods from under his nose and has been hounded mercilessly ever since , often in the pages of Rowland 's own Observer newspaper . |
| 16 | HUNDREDS of James Bond fans had the wool well and truly pulled over their eyes yesterday . |
| 17 | Then Cantona committed his second And if the masses shoe-horned onto the Vicarage Road terraces had the growing feeling it was to be Watford 's night , Cantona 's second howler of the night when Strachan 's cross found the darling of Elland Road unmarked again and just six yards out . |