Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] had [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |
| 2 | I was n't going to get anything else out of Pardy anyway so I had a statement typed up and after Deanes had put a magnifying glass over it , the lad signed and was ushered out by Deanes doing a mother-hen act over him . ’ |
| 3 | Les Wheeler , his wife Shirley and twin daughters Ceri and Amey from Pillowell in the Forest of Dean had to endure the full razzmatazz of the pools publicity machine before they found out exactly how much they 'd won . |
| 4 | In the previous month the Bank of Indonesia had announced the partial deregulation of foreign exchange dealings . |
| 5 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 6 | It was here that , at the Competition for the Crown forty-two years before , Edward the First of England had met the Scots magnates and set in motion the actions which ultimately led to the Wars of Independence . |
| 7 | Edward of England had ordered an advance headquarters to be set up at Bamborough in Northumberland , with levies from all over the North of England to assemble there ; he himself was expected to arrive there in late March or early April , to lead his assault on Scotland in person . |
| 8 | A few months earlier , Sammy Woods of Australia and Harry Wood of England had had a near miss in this particular department , but it took a brace of Smiths to achieve a Test first . |
| 9 | Khrushchev 's denunciation of Stalin had angered the Chinese Communist leaders , as they believed in rigid adherence to the Stalin type government , and they disapproved of any form of ‘ co-existence ’ . |
| 10 | Le Monde of March 13 reported that President Boris Yeltsin of Russia had established a Russian Space Agency ( RKA ) to replace the former Soviet programme . |
| 11 | The Slovene League of Communists ( LC ) , which at the end of January had plunged the federal League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) into crisis by abandoning the 14th extraordinary LCY congress [ see p. 37172 ] , on Feb. 4 held a party conference at which it renounced its links with the LCY . |
| 12 | After the Stafford Forest Eyre of 1286 the Bishop of Coventry had to pay the enormous fine of £1,000 to recover his ‘ free chase ’ within the royal forest of Cannock . |
| 13 | North reported back that the line was working ; the Second Channel had noted to Cave ‘ that RR being a man of God had removed the only argument they had — that Allah was on their side . ’ |
| 14 | However , reports later in April said that the leadership of Chechnia had urged a common military , economic and information space with Russia , and the news agency Interfax reported on April 30 that Chechnia was ready to resume negotiations with Russia . |
| 15 | But the King of France had shown a contemptuous disregard for Henry 's complaints . |
| 16 | As a child Rose of Lima had watched a different version of the ‘ penetration of the universe ’ , as the silver mines were sunk deeper and deeper into the mountains , at high risk , in search of treasure . |
| 17 | The subsequent growth of Teheran had made the previous royal quarters in town too cramped and after an attempt on the Shah life in 19965 , on of several that he survived , the family had moved to Niavaran . |
| 18 | It was easy for the Jews to comply with this custom because Hecataeus of Abdera had produced a little model of what was expected of them . |
| 19 | By the turn of the century , the United States of America had become an imperial power and her pre-eminence among Western countries was already confidently predicted . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall . |
| 21 | In the early thirteenth century Gerald of Wales had advocated the combined use of archers and knights ; it was precisely this combination which , as shown above , was to be employed to such good effect in defensive positions against the Scots in the first half of the fourteenth century , before being used , in broadly similar conditions , against the French at Crécy , Poitiers and , later , at Agincourt . |
| 22 | Secondary , or higher , education in that corner of Oxfordshire had enjoyed an interesting but not untypical history . |
| 23 | Publishers such as Ackermann had to employ a considerable body of engravers and watercolourists to keep the work moving smoothly . |
| 24 | The long wars against France had left the British more confident about their position overseas than before , but not necessarily more interested in activity outside Europe . |
| 25 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 26 | Nothing explicit had been said but she knew her relationship with Urquhart had crossed a new frontier : he had become an enemy . |
| 27 | Three secretaries who in March had taken the unprecedented step of tendering their resignations to the GPC [ see also p. 37333 ] were also affected : Izz al-Din Mohammad al-Hinshiri , hitherto Justice Secretary , was moved to the Secretariat of Transport and Communications while Mubarak al-Shamikh and Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim , hitherto Secretaries for Transport and for Higher Education respectively , stood down . |
| 28 | On the 31st May this year Hilda Hyam , correctly dressed in a blue leotard and a pink rose , celebrated her ninetieth birthday in style , for her fellow teachers in Avon had organised the perfect day just for her : — classes morning and afternoon interspersed with coffee — a tasty lunch — and a delicious tea complete with a birthday cake . |
| 29 | On the 31st May this year Hilda Hyam , correctly dressed in a blue leotard and a pink rose , celebrated her ninetieth birthday in style , for her fellow teachers in Avon had organised the perfect day just for her : — classes morning and afternoon interspersed with coffee — a tasty lunch — and a delicious tea complete with a birthday cake . |
| 30 | Although a number of embassies in Kuwait had defied the Iraqi orders that they should close by Aug.24 [ see p. 37639 ] , all but a dozen ( including the USA , Canada and eight EC countries ) had abandoned them by Aug. 12 because of conditions there . |