Example sentences of "a [noun] and had " in BNC.
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| 1 | She particularly hated the small kitchen , which was little more than a passageway and had no worksurfaces or cupboards . |
| 2 | They were jointly engaged in a burglary and had contemplated resisting arrest . |
| 3 | She was dressed in trousers and a trenchcoat and had a mane of fair hair beneath a tight-fitting beret . |
| 4 | John had dreams of being a writer and had tried his hand at poetry , including an epic poem on the Battle of Largs . |
| 5 | ‘ Then he got injured in a field and had to be off for a year , but everything seems to be going well now . |
| 6 | The defence counsel , Robert Anthony , said that McCormack was not a drinker and had acted out of character after consuming alcohol that night . |
| 7 | Mark had forgotten Babur was a porter and had this thing about class . |
| 8 | They were going to Oxford Circus for a change and had booked a patch . |
| 9 | She was a half-caste and had a lovely coffee coloured skin . |
| 10 | I was wounded in a demonstration and had to retire from political activities for a while to recuperate and another member was killed in the massacre , when the security forces dislodged the peaceful occupation of the Venezuelan Embassy . |
| 11 | She was a diabetic and had n't taken any insulin with her . |
| 12 | Although Scotland fans remember Jimmy Johnstone as the drunken hero of the Largs boating trip , a passing thought should be spared for a couple of local brothers , John and Tam Halliday , two old men who luckily owned a boat and had a lifetime 's knowledge of the maritime area . |
| 13 | The ferry service was making a loss and had stopped running for the winter . |
| 14 | Richens and the girl , Sabrina Ngiau , put the body in a trunk and had it driven to Kent where it was buried in a field behind his parents ' house at Borough Green Road , Ightham . |
| 15 | But there was also a growing disaffection among the younger poets and critics : he had ceased to be a poet and had become an institution , and the only thing to do with an institution is to attempt to pull it down . |
| 16 | The dollar strengthened as a result and had the temporary effect of relieving pressure on sterling against the mark . |
| 17 | The loss of William Whitelaw , who suffered a stroke and had to leave the government , was a blow to the Prime Minister . |
| 18 | But the man raised no objections to a search and had dashed off to keep an appointment , leaving the police to their work . |
| 19 | Mother-of-two Mrs Ahluwalia , of Crawley , Sussex , had been beaten by her husband while pregnant , hit in the face with a telephone and had her finger broken . |
| 20 | When I was a child and had never even heard the word ‘ regression ’ , I was always fascinated by anything to do with the Tudor period of English history . |
| 21 | Mighty was sacked last year for alleged gross misconduct after it was claimed he harassed a child and had inappropriate talks on sex with ex-residents . |
| 22 | She was born in the reign of Queen Victoria , suffered malnutrition as a child and had brought up her own children in poverty . |
| 23 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 24 | How ironic that someone who had held her spellbound as a child and had lingered in her imagination for years should have turned out to be so arrogantly cold and superior . |
| 25 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 26 | Sometimes she came back to the present with a bang to find that one of the girls had asked a question and had received no answer at all because Jenna 's gaze was fixed on the sky outside the window , her mind travelling the road to Paris and Alain . |
| 27 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 28 | While appearing with them in Berlin in 1937 she tore a ligament and had to give up further hope of dancing . |
| 29 | Afterwards we went to a bar and had some cognac . |
| 30 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |