Example sentences of "had [vb pp] of [art] [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 | Jelka looked about her , letting herself relax for the first time since she had heard of the attack on the Project , drinking in the harmony of the garden . |
| 6 | Mr MacKinlay said he had heard of the existence of a list of services , some of which appeared in The Observer newspaper yesterday . |
| 7 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 8 | The White Paper was the first the public had heard of the discussions on full employment policy since the Beveridge report . |
| 9 | Who had heard of the Brontës of Haworth , then ? |
| 10 | He glanced at her , wondering if this were the first she had heard of the proposal . |
| 11 | Whether Annie and Lizzie had heard of the Sunday visit or had marked her absence was n't clear but they appeared almost conciliatory compared to previous days . |
| 12 | None had heard of the Al Fayeds . |
| 13 | They told chairman Michael Croucher that it was only by accident they had heard of the proposals and they were concerned that no-one had told them . |
| 14 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |
| 15 | But that had been before he had heard of the shootings . |
| 16 | David had heard of the Wilikinses ' divorce there had been quite a lot about the circumstances surrounding it in the Birmingham Mail — and he had been told of a second , short-lived marriage . |
| 17 | Of 2,000 people interviewed by the BBC , over 90 per cent had heard of the CAB , and of these , a quarter had contacted one . |
| 18 | ‘ A pity it 's necessary — unexpected drama , I mean , ’ said Jane , thinking of the stories she had heard of the bonhomie of the war , in contrast with the stiff , glib cult of the eighties . |
| 19 | A man in Canada wrote to say he had heard of the problem and was going to send a hundred dollars every month . |
| 20 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |
| 21 | Her small crushed handkerchief was quite inadequate to contain the huge tears that welled from her eyes after she had heard of the death of Signor Fixit . |
| 22 | He had heard of the loss , on her following voyage of HMS Reading . |
| 23 | Moreover , it seems very likely that Anselm was referring to the search for relics conducted in secret by Osbern and Eadmer ; and it is also likely that Anselm had heard of the search from Eadmer himself . |
| 24 | Neither the seamen nor their leaders , Shinwell admitted , had heard of the Queensberry rules ; " they had one common characteristic , a belief that toughness and a bellicose attitude were as good a rule of life as any and while many seamen were of a friendly disposition and hated trouble , some would attack from the rear and use a razor or a broken bottle " . |
| 25 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 26 | In it he told the king that he had heard of the outbreak of war in Wales while ‘ ordering and attending to the state of my affairs in Champagne ’ . |
| 27 | Nunn had heard of the arrests , both at Holborn and at Bracknell , and guessed that Shorter was much demoralised and nervous . |
| 28 | Scotland I found to most Peruvians who had heard of the place meant two things : whisky and Cubillas . |
| 29 | The ship steered into Lochranza ; the inhabitants had heard of the boat with plague aboard and would not allow the body to be brought ashore . |
| 30 | 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 . |