Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colchester clothiers had indicated their intention of prosecuting weavers who did not return the " thrums " , the web ends left in the loom after the cloth had been removed . |
| 2 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 3 | Fernando Serra had been too perfect . |
| 4 | Fernando Serra had never truly cared for her and did n't now . |
| 5 | Fernando Serra had n't and did n't care a hairy monkey for her ! |
| 6 | Fernando Serra had instructed him to instruct her when she arrived that there was no room at the inn ! |
| 7 | Bernard Warner had lost that sort of a sum from that sort of a fortune . |
| 8 | On Jan. 14 Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut had confirmed that the USA would double to 96 the number of combat aircraft stationed at the NATO military base at Incirlik . |
| 9 | Allan Stewart had flushed with discomfiture at the defusing of his story . |
| 10 | Allan Stewart had been itching to speak . |
| 11 | There was still much danger : the palace was heavily guarded , and even if they got away King Minos had many warships which could chase and sink them . |
| 12 | Lance Corporal Garry Manning had demonstrated both . |
| 13 | His rather surprising decision to accept the modest living of Little Tuckett had put an end to that . |
| 14 | Ung Phan had served as Minister of Communications , Transport and Posts until his arrest in mid-1990 for attempting to establish a new , liberal political party in Cambodia [ see pp. 37598-99 ] . |
| 15 | AI has repeatedly expressed concern about the case to the Tunisian Government since October 1991 but the Tunisian authorities have continued to insist that Faisal Barakat had never been arrested and that he died in a road accident . |
| 16 | Nyamwisi Movingi had resigned from this post on March 22 , accusing the government of leading the country to disaster . |
| 17 | England full-back Jon Webb had some game … he joined in the attacks when he could and kicked five out of five penalties … |
| 18 | He observed that the economy had expanded steadily since 1981 , and repeated something that Kenneth Baker had said earlier in the week : that there was ‘ no precedent for eight years of sustained growth ’ . |
| 19 | ( On Jan. 3 the UK Home Secretary Kenneth Baker had held talks in Delhi on a draft extradition treaty . ) |
| 20 | DRUNK driver Gary McKitten had his collar felt by an angry pet shop boss . |
| 21 | I was so pleased to note that someone more knowledgeable than your reviewer Robert Nye about the Rev William Gaskell had written to you ( the Rev Andrew M Hill , Points of View , 13 March ) . |
| 22 | Remembering how General Steiner had met his end in the Gestapo cellars at Prinz Albrechtstrasse , it seemed likely to Schellenberg that Himmler might have other reasons . |
| 23 | Until the opening of the Marlborough galleries had tended to treat artists in a patronising way , as underlings . |
| 24 | Colonel Windsor had to prompt when Tubby relapsed once again into a brooding torpor . |
| 25 | Colonel Windsor had asked . |
| 26 | They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction . |
| 27 | General Orsborn had written that at a first High Council newcomers should keep quiet and listen to what people say . |
| 28 | High adventure drew from Dickson McCunn a latent heroism : Thomas Carlyle Craw had buried his sense and courage far more deeply but they are at least glimpsed at the end of an adventure story which interprets the concept of honour in terms of individual rather than of chivalric motives . |
| 29 | Both were fined by Southampton and boss Ian Branfoot had to think seriously about playing them together . |
| 30 | Obviously Devlin Parnham had been prepared to agree to any sort of conditions to get the count to accept this mission . |