Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] had [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince had announced on June 7 his decision to replace Chausen Kosal as one of two Sihanoukist representatives . |
| 2 | He had his widowed mother living with him and two sisters who had to get husbands ; both Mr James and Constanza say that it would have been considered an almost monstrous act of selfishness if the prince had insisted on marrying one of the Montecativi or Roccarosa girls for their beaux yeux . |
| 3 | The legislative intention was to give rise to a charge whenever there was a change in the proportion of the settled property in which any participator was deemed to be entitled , whether the change had arisen on death , or on termination of the interest , or on a disposition or deemed disposition . |
| 4 | They spent much of the winter , from Palm Sunday until late August , in the centre of a chilly and miserable bay at what is now Puerto San Julián — a winter made doubly wretched by an appalling mutiny and the consequent executions and maroonings that Magellan ordered ; by the stranding and wrecking of the Santiago , which the Captain-General had sent on a sounding expedition ; and by the realization of the dreadful damage done to the remaining ships by the constant chomping and feasting of those plank-gourmets of the seas , the teredo worms . |
| 5 | And luckily the bike had fallen on its left side so the gears and chain ring etc were n't damaged . |
| 6 | The trial had begun on Jan. 27 , when the four men had each been charged with " complicity to commit genocide " ( Bobu , Manescu and Dinca in their capacity as members of the former permanent bureau of the Romanian Communist Party executive political committee ( EPC ) and Postelnicu in his capacity as a candidate member of the EPC and former Minister of the Interior ) for failing to oppose at meetings on Dec. 17 and 22 Nicolae Ceausescu 's orders to fire on demonstrators . |
| 7 | Barry was indicted on a further six misdemeanour charges on May 10 , five of which related to drug possession and one to conspiracy ; the trial had begun on June 4 [ see pp. 37525-26 ] . |
| 8 | The trial had begun on March 11 . |
| 9 | An earlier phone call to Springfield from Curtis had seen to that , when the lieutenant had passed on his suspicion that the sect could in fact be a front for a Triad drugs operation . |
| 10 | The board had decided on another candidate , an orthodox pathologist with predominantly clinical and descriptive interests and not an experimentalist . |
| 11 | Two government prosecutors in the case had resigned on Jan. 9 , claiming that intimidation of witnesses had made their task impossible . |
| 12 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 13 | The blood had dried on the wounds leaving gaping holes showing the bones . |
| 14 | For Macpherson everything about the general run of American movies ‘ belonged to the 1910 period ’ when the industry had alighted on a certain type of narrative film as being most suitable for its mass audience . |
| 15 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 16 | The widely-scattered smoke-swirls from destroyed weapons and vehicles showed that the enemy had advanced on a broad front . |
| 17 | The assailant had hidden on the left of the track , he probed first on that side . |
| 18 | The organisation claims that desulphurisation plans have been cut to suit the newly privatised power industry and that the department had reneged on its original agreement to desulphurise a further two power stations . |
| 19 | The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May . |
| 20 | ‘ The dark had descended on us in a howling storm , as it will when the world ends . |
| 21 | Thousands of homes in the North-East had to rely on stored water for 40 hours after the pollution alert at Barnard Castle the discharge was traced to the vicinity of the Lartington Treatment Works , but its precise source has not been named . |
| 22 | Nails and Hoomey wriggled free and made off like hares and by the time the opposition had refocussed on Seb as main aggressor rather than Jazz a police car was cruising to a standstill alongside and a new element was introduced . |
| 23 | The club had fallen on hard times , and the arrival of a travelling circus of the long hairs , trainee freaks and happening performers seemed like a good idea . |
| 24 | Then Dad decided that the banging had gone on long enough . |
| 25 | Whether or not the subject of a mosaic was chosen by the client , the mosaicist had to rely on a number of aids and methodical practices when organising his work . |
| 26 | The policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit . |
| 27 | Mr Thaw said that the Queen had commented on how different his role was as a genial Englishman abroad after his work as Inspector Morse . |
| 28 | In a related development the Council had voted on Dec. 15 to continue to apply Czechoslovak federal law in the Czech Republic , but that in case of a conflict between Czech and federal law the former would prevail . |
| 29 | It is £100,000 more than the estimated cost the council had put on the work , and more than £32,000 more than the second highest bid . |
| 30 | ‘ There you are , Mrs Sutherland , ’ he 'd say , as if the sun had risen on seeing me , or indeed , I was the sun . |