Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] had [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third file concerned a boy Berdichev had taken a personal interest in ; a Clayborn child from the Recruitment Project for whom Berdichev had paid the extraordinary sum of ten million yuan . |
| 2 | Stratford , a royal diplomat , had been provided to Winchester in 1323 against the wishes of the king and paid a heavy penalty for it : his temporalities were seized and exploited for a year , and even after they were restored Stratford was placed under recognizances of £10,000 to the king ( £2000 down and the rest conditional upon his good conduct ) , £1000 to the Despensers , and 1000 marks to the chancellor , Robert Baldock , a clerk for whom Edward had intended the bishopric ; moreover , Stratford was summoned to answer in the King 's Bench for his conduct of a royal mission to the papacy . |
| 3 | The alleged plot by Manoon had been cited as a justification by the military for staging the February 1991 coup [ see p. 38004 ] , shortly after which Manoon had fled the country . |
| 4 | Bad news had a habit of springing ghastly surprises , the way that shattering news about her mother had sprung the cruellest surprise of all … the way her foolish idyll last night had been ruthlessly shattered this morning … |
| 5 | On Nov. 15 the Senate judiciary committee voted to confirm William Barr as Attorney General [ see p. 38521 ] following hearings during which Democrats had characterized the Bush administration 's approach to BCCI as lethargic and piecemeal . |
| 6 | Mortimer crouched at the corner of the short tunnel through which Benny had entered the previous day . |
| 7 | My brother had enlisted in the Grenadier Guards , and was at Camberley , but my mother and sister were still in Merstham ; and it seemed to me that , in the event of a German landing , for which Churchill had alerted the public , a place as safe as any would be my Wiltshire village of Seend , where there was a delightful little Guest House , kept by a Mrs Earle . |
| 8 | How far this interpretation can be extended to the whole gamut of characters for which Burdon had shown the populations to be polymorphic must be very doubtful . |
| 9 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 10 | Full employment and proof of their ability had given the new generation greater self-confidence . |
| 11 | I also asked Grand Met what percentage of its tenants had left the trade completely since the beer orders were introduced less than two years ago . |
| 12 | The Yugoslav air force denied any of its aircraft had violated the air exclusion zone . |
| 13 | One of her contacts had breathed the information down the telephone and she had clambered aboard Perfidia , her professional charm switching itself on and eager to deal with any obstacles between her curiosity and The Truth . |
| 14 | Only the reflective coating of her suit had prevented the enemy weapons identifying her as a target . |
| 15 | She went to the houses of friends , she was invited everywhere , but not one of her schoolmates had crossed the door of Maple Gardens . |
| 16 | Word of his presence had reached the army commander at Inverness and 1500 men were secretly sent off to capture him , but his hostess got wind of the plan and sent the prince to shelter in the woods , having posted four servants with a local blacksmith to watch for the approaching column . |
| 17 | It was as if the dominance of his spirit had conquered the physical results of lack of sleep , lending him a new vitality which arced across the distance between them , charging her own weakened batteries , as he responded to a challenge which had been originally hers . |
| 18 | Sidacai had never carried any excess weight , and the period of his imprisonment had stripped the flesh from his bones . |
| 19 | Only one small , white-highlighted ripple showed where the supple arrow of his body had pierced the water . |
| 20 | Doubtless many of his victims had believed the same . |
| 21 | None of his staff had given the information to the news agency and the explanation was accepted . |
| 22 | Once , trying to resist his Destiny , Duroc had studied for the priesthood , but the vocation of his family had outweighed the call of Rome . |
| 23 | In an age when sin and madness were so strongly associated , the only reason for confessing to having been insane would be that complete recovery showed divine forgiveness of whatever sin had caused the madness in the first place ; and this is the reason advanced by the two mediaeval authors who admit to having been mad , Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve . |
| 24 | Some of the members of our community had taken the decision to join the mass political organizations or the armed struggle but that was their personal choice and the community never expressed an opinion on the subject . |
| 25 | Behind him Bagshot had opened the door . |
| 26 | Through the three days of their charter , Gomez was the only one of the four Latinos with whom Trent had formed the slightest relationship . |
| 27 | He was out in the sunshine , his feet crunching the gravelled drive with which Riddle had put the finishing touch to his little estate . |
| 28 | Because he made that statement when discussing the concentric spheres with which Aristotle had built the cosmos , he was evidently aware that authoritative world-pictures were not inviolable . |
| 29 | Rain asked about the ease with which Cobalt had found the heroin . |
| 30 | Even if they had never contemplated the smallest act of resistance themselves , the notion of FAKINTIL in the hills with their leader had offered the possibility of freedom one day . |