Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headed by Iqbal Riza , a Pakistani UN political officer , and Philippe Texier , a French senior appellate court judge , this was the first mission of its type the UN had set up inside a member country [ see p. 38187 ] . |
| 2 | While it is an oversimplification to view the first decade of operation as some kind of golden age , it is fair to say that until this point the EEC had worked fairly smoothly . |
| 3 | She went down the garden with a buoyant step between the neatly trimmed shrubs her uncle had so lovingly planted , past the magnolia , black and wet and knobbly , and through the rose garden the Talbots had laid out together in the manner of an Elizabethan one , formally-shaped beds edged with fat hedges of box . |
| 4 | Dressed in a purple coat and hat , the Queen told her audience the RAF had adapted well to changing circumstances . |
| 5 | Eustace Loder , the prime mover of the Stewards ' objection , was said to have a personal grudge against Craganour 's owner Ismay , who in any case was far from universally popular : the son of the founder of the White Star Line , whose greatest ship the Titanic had gone down on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives , and himself a passenger on that fateful voyage , his survival did not endear him to the public . |
| 6 | The USA exploded its first thermonuclear device in 1952 , and within a year the USSR had done likewise . |
| 7 | As a dynasty the Angevins had done well , but noticeably less well then either of their main rivals , the Normans ( who had conquered England ) and the Poitevins ( who had acquired Gascony ) . |
| 8 | At this time the LEA had set aside funds from the INSET budget , specifically for schools who wanted to undertake self-evaluation projects . |