Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silver-framed photograph of Philippe Chaumont had appeared for the first time since he had known Chantal . |
| 2 | In the course of his visit to Sweden , Mandela had called on the international community to sever all diplomatic links with South Africa and to intensify sanctions in order to eliminate apartheid . |
| 3 | In their different ways both Tom and Emilia had alluded to the same experience ; and before that experience she was utterly virgin . |
| 4 | Then he raised his wings and lifted himself up as Slorne had done to the very top of his cage . |
| 5 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |
| 6 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she … well … vanished , and so far had come up with nothing . |
| 7 | After the death of Henry VI , Innocent took advantage of the continuing civil war in Germany to undo any of the advances that Frederick Barbarossa had gained over the papal power . |
| 8 | Carlie had said to the social worker in charge of her case . |
| 9 | Carlie had to go to the foster home because she could n't get along with her stepfather . |
| 10 | Out in the yard , Alejandro had turned from the charming rogue of yesterday into a roaring tyrant , bellowing instructions to all the boys . |
| 11 | The heirs of the executed and forfeited rebels lacked the means and the backing to use force to regain what their fathers had lost , and the enemies Edward had made in the extreme north by concluding a truce with the Scots were in no position to make their influence felt . |
| 12 | But er no , Sir Edward had to go through the full rigmarole of a meeting with the great man , I put that in inverted commas , but er I suppose he thinks he is , the great man himself , Saddam Hussein . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , against the pope 's better judgement , Edward had recalled from the papal Curia another exile , Winchelsey . |
| 14 | Edward had arrived by the overnight train and felt like death . |
| 15 | Edward had won over the industrial towns of Flanders in 1340 , and the maintenance of the English position there was to be a basic strategic principle until its decisive failure in 1385 . |
| 16 | Blyth had taken off the hollow plastic leg and left it lying tangled in its straps and the long grass blades . |
| 17 | It was this role that the new model unions had consciously adopted in the eighteen fifties and that the Webbs had emphasised in the eighteen nineties . |
| 18 | Indeed , John Knox was later to claim that after Beaton had cried into the dying king 's ear that there should be four regents , with himself as principal , ‘ a dead man 's hand was made to subscribe a blank ’ . |
| 19 | Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face . |
| 20 | But , what Freud had realized by the nineteen twenties was that there are lots of different ways of doing that , and has given one example . |
| 21 | If Richard had heard about the old Angevin claim when he began work on a castle within the political orbit of Châtellerault he probably thought it had long since lapsed . |
| 22 | Claudia held on to her temper with an effort ; it was bad enough that Dana had leapt to the right conclusion without her confirming it . |
| 23 | He said Hall had written to the dead man 's mother expressing his sorrow . |
| 24 | The governments of Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Uzbekistan and Ukraine had called on the Russian government on April 2 not to deregulate oil prices before Oct. 1 , fearing for their economies if the cheap fuel they received from Russia was instead sold to them at world prices . |
| 25 | Already we were beginning to talk among ourselves about the feasibility of a Hungarian-type reform to replace the central planning mechanism which Stalin had created in the 1930s . |
| 26 | The assembled guests well knew they were after bigger quarry than hare or stag and it the small town of Kirkmichael , Mar , on Tuesday 6 September , formally proclaimed James King of England , Scotland and , as tradition required , France , a poor return for all the help the Bourbons had given to the Jacobite cause . |
| 27 | Benny had looked at the cream-coloured blouses and soft pink angora sweaters . |
| 28 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 29 | Lepine had applied to the Polytechnique school of Engineering in 1986 , but was offered just a conditional place pending the completion of a chemistry course . |
| 30 | Its leader , Mahmut Alinak , who in May had resigned from the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP — the junior party in the governing coalition ) said that he hoped that the OZEP would absorb the former Kurdish nationalist People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) . |