Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] and had " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a P C and had a shot gun . |
| 2 | Mrs Naulls was in Sunningdale because her son Stanley was a Hilderbridge councillor and had pulled strings . |
| 3 | The Kremlin said later that during the course of the conversation , Mr Yeltsin had invited Mr Clinton to a Moscow summit and had also suggested further reductions in nuclear weapons . |
| 4 | ‘ She 'd had a heart attack and had been totally paralysed . ’ |
| 5 | He had met the press at a cocktail party and had stood there answering impertinent questions with disconcerting honesty , a glass of ginger ale in one hand and a canapé in the other ; when he could not immediately think of an answer he nibbled the canapé and viewed the questioner with cold button eyes . |
| 6 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 7 | He was warmly wrapped up in a fur coat and had gloves on . |
| 8 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
| 9 | After one session filming from a helicopter the cameraman 's limbs were so stiff he was ‘ locked ’ into a sitting position and had to be carried to safety and warmth . |
| 10 | Nigel was strapped into a light commode in a sitting position and had been carefully carried down the fire escape to the waiting car . |
| 11 | Every Sunday on our way back from church , we 'd call on Mrs Wright , whose son was a Schools Inspector and had been to Cambridge . |
| 12 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 13 | If it had happened in a car accident and had been someone else 's fault , perhaps I would 've been bitter . |
| 14 | I had gone through a marriage break-up and had a lot of financial commitments . ’ |
| 15 | She was carrying a shopping bag and had evidently just returned from town . |
| 16 | As a result Leroy was as loyal as a hound dog and had undertaken to ‘ look after ’ Sir Ralph at election campaigns . |
| 17 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 18 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
| 19 | Hilary had put far more into this office than the basic duties of a committee chairman and had presented a most favourable image of the Society and its work to all with whom she had come into contact . |
| 20 | The earliest experiment in New Jersey suggested that the reduction in working hours produced by relatively high tax rates was small — a 0.5-per-cent reduction in hours worked by men who received a cash supplement and had it withdrawn at a 50-per-cent tax rate . |
| 21 | On 25 July , John Carter walked into a Wantage pub and had a drink with his brother . |
| 22 | These aged Soviet-made missiles , descended from the German V-2 rocket , carried a one-ton warhead and had a range of 290 km . |
| 23 | He lost both his legs in a farming accident and had to watch the minutes tick away while the emergency services looked for his farm . |
| 24 | Before her accident the plaintiff wanted to be a conference organiser and had intended to go into hospitality management as a career . |
| 25 | It was of distinctive hand-laid paper with a griffin watermark and had been posted in Perugia the previous Thursday . |
| 26 | Most pleased with their results among the major Old Master dealers were Hill-Stone Inc. of New York who had sold a Canaletto etching and had seen considerable interest shown in their Leon Davent ‘ Cupid with bandaged Eyes ’ ( Z.5 ) , their Schaufelein woodcut ‘ Wild man and family ’ — a rare uncut impression with the text beneath — and their beautiful ‘ Bacchus and Ariadne ’ by Vico , printed on blue paper . |
| 27 | Central South helped rescue the leading car of Francis Tuthill and Anthony Showell who were well and truly stuck in a water hole and had to be towed out . |
| 28 | Sadly , at set and a break up , she aggravated a groin injury and had to retire when leading 1–0 in the final set . |
| 29 | To that end it eschewed a leadership cult and had a formless organization , although a council decided its policy . |
| 30 | Smoking was permitted but the number and timing of cigaretteswere noted on a diary sheet and had to be similar on all study days . |