Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility of confusion is very great ; for just as Eleanor of Castile landed at Acre in 1270 , accompanying Edward on the seventh crusade , so Eleanor of Aquitaine had landed there 120 years before , accompanying her husband ( that is , her first , Louis VII of France ) on his crusade — which is presumably what Pound means by ‘ Acre , again ’ . |
| 2 | Fausto Zapata , of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) , whose election as governor of the state of San Luis Potosí in August had sparked off great controversy , resigned following a meeting on Oct. 9 with President Carlos Salinas de Gortari . |
| 3 | By the time the Palestine Central Council ( PCC — the PLO 's advisory body ) met in Baghdad on Oct. 15-16 , 1989 , President Mubarak of Egypt had put forward a 10-point peace plan , which was followed by a five-point initiative by US Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 4 | The chronicler William of Newburgh was disposed to believe that King Sverre of Norway had brought about the destruction of King Magnus 's fleet in 1186 by invoking the Devil . |
| 5 | In January 1960 , shortly before Mikoian 's visit , Eisenhower issued another in a series of conciliatory statements , and throughout 1959 Ambassador Philip Bonsal in Havana had worked untiringly to establish grounds for accommodation . |
| 6 | By the second century the temple of Apollo at Delos had accumulated as many as sixteen hundred . |
| 7 | The very diversity of the Scottish experience , from the views and activities of the constitutional suffragist , Bady Frances Balfour , to the continuing connection in Glasgow between the working-class suffragettes and the Independent Labour Party ( at a time when the WSPU in England had become very middle class ) makes it particularly worth studying . |
| 8 | By the middle of 1756 Britain 's conflicts with France outside Europe had turned quite unexpectedly into a war in which the three major powers of Europe were allied against Frederick of Prussia and so were preparing to attack George 's Electorate of Hanover . |
| 9 | Maybe that Maria Luisa in Seville had meant as much to him as Fernando had to her . |
| 10 | When by 1292 John of York had become too old and infirm to perform the duties of his Forest office , Edward I granted him a pension of ‘ three pence daily out of the issues of the forest , at the hands of the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and six cartloads of firewood in the said forest by view and delivery of the foresters there ’ . |