Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vacancy might already have been found if the visitor or the committee had made direct contact with an employer . |
| 2 | The court quashed the conviction finding that only the Minister or the Committee had the power to issue such orders under the statute . |
| 3 | They had almost outrun the hurricane — or the hurricane had dawdled , keen to exact its full revenge on the mountain flanks that had initially defeated it . |
| 4 | They spent hours together , particularly when one or the other had acquired a new piece of music . |
| 5 | Or one or the other had . ’ |
| 6 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 7 | Either one or the other had remained with Hector throughout the afternoon , taking turns , at Mrs Diggory 's insistence , in going to the breakfast parlour to eat . |
| 8 | There is nothing to show how long the game or the Society had been in abeyance before the meeting but in the same record a minute implies that the Society had been formed in 1483 . |
| 9 | The second must have got stuck at the first trees — or the driver had n't bothered to navigate the obstacle . |
| 10 | We 're gon na look at psychology and what they had to say about , or the school had to say about perception . |
| 11 | The wine , I mean ; the vineyard and vintage , um … whether it was south slope or the soil had been especially acidic that year . " |
| 12 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 13 | Theodora suspected that this was not an exercise that either the Bishop or the Archdeacon had had to perform before . |
| 14 | The Minister made a half-hearted attempt to justify that claim , but he could not identify anything that he or the Government had positively done . |
| 15 | The green an isosceles triangle without a tree to it , but trees around the pub , the same kind as in Adam 's pine wood , Rufus supposed , or very like , which the licensee or the brewery had probably thought its name required . |
| 16 | I could n't decide whether Eric or the dog had made the noise . |
| 17 | If either the elections or the crisis had come in 1947 , then the contradiction probably would not have mattered . |
| 18 | She guessed someone in Special Branch or the intelligence services had objected to her enquiries and that Spittals or the commander had simply capitulated . |
| 19 | Or the picture had been transformed , temporarily , into a mirror . |
| 20 | Just aft of the fire a small motorboat was still secured to its davits : it was n't difficult to guess that either the explosion or the fire had rendered it inoperable . |
| 21 | " So either Lorrimer let in his murderer or the murderer had a key . " |
| 22 | Either that or the paint had simply been afraid to sully his obviously expensive jeans and sweatshirt . |
| 23 | Either the corridors were empty of people , or the Doctor had managed to follow a less well-travelled route from Miles 's office to the main airlock , several levels below . |
| 24 | In previous cases the Coal Board had either paid up or the owner had agreed to demolition . |
| 25 | Johnson flits over it all in a sentence , and in his letters to Mrs Thrale he came forth only a little more , alluding only to the success of the visit , and to the debate as to whether the savage or the shopkeeper had the best life . |
| 26 | She or the family had no history of colitis . |
| 27 | Annuities generally issued from lay land , and a technical distinction was evidently maintained at Water Stratford , Bucks. , where the abbot had a pension of 6s. 8d. as well as an annuity of 4s . |
| 28 | You could see he 'd spotted where the stone had landed . |
| 29 | Arriving from Goldsmiths ' , where the teaching had been disciplined and informed , she encountered in the more haphazardly run Royal College ‘ an overpowering sense of vacuum ’ . |
| 30 | Curious , I later studied a large-scale map of the Fannichs , and sure enough there was a narrow-sided glen where the aeroplane had vanished : the pilot must have turned into it , risen over the col at the head and continued his flight northwards . |