Example sentences of "had [verb] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allied controls had been reduced and the Constitutional Court had dismissed an SPD claim that German membership of a European Army was uncon-stitutional . |
| 2 | In November 1990 the DPP had formed a Taiwan Sovereignty Independent Movement Committee to advocate what the party asserted was Taiwan 's " independent sovereignty " which excluded mainland China . |
| 3 | One of these doctors had consulted a Dr. D. who was the pre-eminent expert in the treatment of anorexic cases . |
| 4 | Woolley called the replacements to one side and asked them if they had flown an SE before . |
| 5 | The press could provide little enlightenment because all newspapers had received a D-Notice asking them not to print any details about the background to the case . |
| 6 | They had booked a Toyota camper van and told the hire company they intended spending the next three weeks touring New Zealand . |
| 7 | He had visited the studio on and off through his time with Vanessa — he 'd even met Martine there on two occasions when her husband had cancelled a Luxembourg trip and she 'd been too heated to miss a liaison — but it was charmless and cheerless , and he 'd returned happily to the house in Wimpole Mews . |
| 8 | MNR leader Afonso Dhlakama had cancelled a July 19 meeting in Rome with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jeffrey Davidow , claiming that the government planned to assassinate him . |
| 9 | He had won a US Open and a Masters title in great style , and their affair was a natural for the pages of the world 's newspapers . |
| 10 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 11 | It was still running in New York , where Ellen Burstyn had won a Tony award for her performance as the mistress whose married lover conducts their affair on a once-a-year , same-time-same-place basis . |
| 12 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 13 | She said a third man being sought by the police had telephoned a Kirkby inspector and said he was sure the case would end because witnesses were not brave enough to give evidence . |
| 14 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 15 | A group of surfer clones at the bar tell a story of a mate who buried his ‘ hash ’ on a beach in Morocco , while travelling and surfing there , only to return to find someone had parked a VW Camper on the burial spot . |
| 16 | They had approached a GLC body , the Greater London Enterprise Board ( GLEB ) , for money and been told that if it was to put money in , an established business person had to be involved . |
| 17 | Yonhap quoted an official as saying North Korea had accepted a US proposal to meet again in Beijing , possibly as early as next week , and a senior Seoul government source told Reuters the talks were to be held after after a current US-South Korean military exercise , Team Spirit , ended . |
| 18 | BRITISH International Helicopters yesterday announced the company had secured a North Sea contract with Ranger Oil — the first to be awarded to the company since last month 's management buyout . |
| 19 | In a " private " visit to Taipei on Oct. 27-29 , the mayor of Moscow , Gavriil Popov , had met a Taiwan Foreign Ministry official , Frederick Chien , and discussed the development of closer economic and cultural ties . |
| 20 | But only days before Mr Sok Hay stood in front of his villa speculating on how much his property might be worth in the future , Khmer Rouge guerrillas had ambushed a Phnom Penh army patrol in the hills close by . |
| 21 | William Farrell had seen a Renault 25 car parked beside a crash barrier as he drove past . |
| 22 | They had total-stumped some US Cav in the Painted Desert , and some were saying they had scratched a Maniax Chapter in the Rockies . |
| 23 | They had said a Detective Constable McCabe , a community policeman , would ‘ look in ’ , which , after a couple of weeks , he did . |
| 24 | ‘ He had to pick an England team from what was left after the week-end games a fortnight ago , while I found myself with just two players at Highbury for almost the entire week . |
| 25 | The Arundel trainer had felt an April fool when his first two runners of the campaign — including an odds-on shot — were turned over at Brighton on Thursday . |
| 26 | In the meantime France had built a DBS satellite — TDF-I — with , if not nowhere to go , few programmes to show : the Luxembourg government , various ( non French ) private sector TV channel consortia , and other potential partners and clients , had been alienated , as successive French governments dithered and dallied , and technologies — and the cost of their application — evolved . |
| 27 | In the late Seventies , the couple had bought a Tudor farmhouse in Pinner which they extended and refurbished to create a luxurious five-bedroomed house . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Microsoft ( who , incidentally , were then engaged in legal battle with Apple ) had bought a PostScript clone vendor , Bauer Technologies , and were looking for a font technology for OS/2 's Presentation Manager . |
| 29 | Vananu , who had been held in solitary confinement since 1986 , was in March 1988 given an 18-year prison sentence for passing information likely to harm state security , after he had offered a United Kingdom newspaper information about Israel 's nuclear programme [ see p. 35922 ] . |
| 30 | He had been in Reykjavik harbour when Churchill and Roosevelt had had an Atlantic meeting . |