Example sentences of "had [verb] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs . |
| 2 | He paid calls to La Vieille Cité , famed for its antiquities , where he was politely entertained and actually bought a little Renaissance bronze relief , but no one had heard of a cross coming on the market in recent years . |
| 3 | Last night , a detective investigating the theft said that although this type of crime was becoming increasingly prevalent , it was the first time he had heard of a baby being used as a decoy . |
| 4 | Last night a detective investigating the theft said that , although this type of crime was becoming increasingly prevalent , it was the first time he had heard of a baby being used as a decoy . |
| 5 | President Poincaré wrote gloomily in his diary : ‘ Encore une défaillance ! ‘ , revealing that this was not the first news he had received of a lapse of morale at Verdun . |
| 6 | Tenby had bit of a problem |
| 7 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court was told that Mantack took with him a tape he had made of a woman 's voice crying for help . |
| 8 | The only thing Father Dolan had been able to tell her was that her mother had died of a fever soon after arriving in the town ; he himself had learned this from the constable . |
| 9 | The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era . |
| 10 | In May 1957 , seven years after his wife Hannah had died of a heart attack , Hughie Gallacher hit rock bottom . |
| 11 | Returning home with the other prisoners of war , he found his father had died of a heart attack . |
| 12 | At 8am , the hospital formally announced that Conor had died of a heart attack . |
| 13 | Sarah had told Anne that her grandmother 's lodger Josh Adamson had died of a heart attack at the start of the raid , but they said nothing of this to Julia nor of the casualty lists which were posted up containing many names of people they knew . |
| 14 | Steen had died of a heart attack . |
| 15 | Perhaps he had been knocked down , or had died of a heart attack . |
| 16 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 17 | If the evidence meant anything Riddle had died of a bullet fired into his neck , not of a stake driven through his heart . |
| 18 | His book was almost finished , and he had thought of a title : The Character Of Completeness . |
| 19 | Willie held the knife above the cake , screwed up his face till he had thought of a wish and then plunged the knife into the icing . |
| 20 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 21 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 22 | Once Harvard had disposed of a stock , the price would often drop . |
| 23 | Guarded talk , because she was never fully in his confidence , but he had spoken of a prisoner who was special and different . |
| 24 | In the wake of the Mann group 's victory , and the strident noises from the Student Federation , some reports from Amritsar had spoken of a return of terrorism to the temple itself , scene of bloody battles in 1984 and again last summer . |
| 25 | In the wake of the Mann group 's victory , and the strident noises from the Student Federation , some reports from Amritsar had spoken of a return of terrorism to the temple itself , scene of bloody battles in 1984 and again last summer . |
| 26 | She had spoken of a reward , not a penance ! |
| 27 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |
| 28 | You had to think of a method and the method was particularly difficult , I think , on the tank farm one where this is the sort of method that I am thinking here of how , how on earth am I going to build it on , on the hotel ? |
| 29 | By ten to two she had deposited the larger of her two suitcases , had partaken of a cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee and , seated in the hotel lounge , and with time to kill while she waited for Ven , she was again being plagued by the vexed question of that abominable interview . |
| 30 | If both parties had partaken of a meal containing that pungent rooted plant , then nothing would be amiss . |