Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Welsh and M Davidson had drafted revised job descriptions , re-balancing job loadings , adjusting responsibilities , and allowing for grading differences , for both library assistants ( AA & AO ) , and CW had obtained approval for the changes from existing staff . |
| 2 | Fields privately resented the way in which Branson had taken responsibility for the purchase of the first Virgin aircraft ; while Branson , for his part , grew increasingly alarmed at the way in which his new partner appeared to be running the rest of the company . |
| 3 | On the Beagle voyage , Darwin had discovered evidence for the ‘ law of succession of types ’ by unearthing South American fossils related to the unique modern inhabitants of that continent . |
| 4 | Some work had been done there by 1372 , but in 1375 inquiry was made into allegations that Lewyn had received money for the work but had failed to carry out the repairs . |
| 5 | Malcolm had left Trinidad for the United States in the 1920s and whilst educating himself at Fisk and Howard Universities had developed a temperament of a distinctly militant revolutionary nature . |
| 6 | In any case , he was relieved to learn , on 22 August , that Eisenhower had given orders for the French 2nd Armoured Division , commanded by General Leclerc , to head for Paris . |
| 7 | In addition to his military household , rewarded with " annual gifts " of clothes and equipment , Charles had to field armies for the sort of warfare that did not appeal much to Frankish nobles — namely , defensive or non-expansionist war ; and here the availability of cash stipends may have helped recruit professional warriors ( including Vikings ) . |
| 8 | William and Gladys Wilkins had paid £23,000 for the work — which experts said should only have cost £2,700 . |
| 9 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 10 | Her father had been a history master at the local grammar school and Dotty had kept house for the old man until his death , when she sold their home , bringing some of the furniture , all the books , four cats , two dogs and a collection of medicinal herbs to her new home . |
| 11 | The evidence of the signature is thus open to so many alternative interpretations that it can not by itself be taken to indicate , let alone prove , that Molla Fenari had left Bursa for the pilgrimage by that date . |
| 12 | Alex Trocchi had escaped Glasgow for the city , and release from Calvinism . |
| 13 | He repeated the information he 'd passed on to the Abigails and to Mr Plant : that George Joseph Smith had bought fish for the late Miss Munday , and eggs for Mrs Burnham and Miss Lofty . |
| 14 | Christon Tembo and three other officers accused of high treason [ for start of trial in November 1989 see p. 37142 ] , an Army officer giving evidence as a state witness claimed that President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe had pledged support for the plotters before their planned coup attempt in October 1988 [ see p. 36264 ] . |