Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earl Spencer had collapsed in the courtyard at Althorp suffering from a massive cerebral haemorrhage and had been rushed to Northampton General Hospital . |
| 2 | Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone . |
| 3 | The report by Ramaphosa and others to Tambo said that Mrs Mandela had participated in the beatings of Stompie and other youths , and that the Crisis Committee had decided to demand that Mrs Mandela should produce Stompie and disband her private bodyguard , the so-called Mandela United Football Club . |
| 4 | What if Dr. Bach had lived in the desert and not in Oxfordshire with its lush fields and hedgerows . |
| 5 | Earlier , Mr Justice Judge had ruled in the Manchester High Court that the terms of a temporary injunction be lifted , allowing him to show financial details of the club to his advisers . |
| 6 | It had been placed there when Mr Blakey had finished in the garden . |
| 7 | The Bruces , whose currying of favour with Edward had resulted in the restoration of their estates , stirred up minor troubles but seemed glad to yield for the time being to their benefactors and express disapproval of Wallace 's wild conduct . |
| 8 | Frankie had hovered in the background , eager to cuddle the puppy but not daring to approach the bigger dogs . |
| 9 | By 1952 the contacts Ramsey had made in the US led to her being awarded a Smith-Mundt scholarship and she toured the country speaking as an authority on what was then pioneering work being done in the UK . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel better now , ’ said young Tilney to Toby , as the boys sat around eating supper — a potato pie that Mrs Garfitt had left for them , and which Toby had put in the oven . |
| 11 | Parts of Mornings in Mexico had appeared in the Criterion , and in mentioning them , Eliot returned explicitly to the theme of city and savage . |
| 12 | On Dec. 16 some 4,000 Pomaks had demonstrated in the town of Goce Delcev ( south-west Bulgaria ) to call for the restoration of their cultural and religious rights and for a criminal investigation into atrocities committed against their 300,000-strong community during a campaign of forced assimilation in 1972-73 . |
| 13 | The ultimate clue to Ecgfrith 's regnal chronology , however , is the documentary report of the council of Hatfield which Bede includes in the Ecclesiastical History ( IV , 17 ) and which demonstrates , by reference to Ecgfrith in his tenth year on 17 September in a year which can only be 680 ( see below , p.113 ) , that Ecgfrith certainly succeeded no earlier than 17 September 670 — which introduces an even longer interregnum if Oswiu had died in the February of that year and makes his death in February 671 more likely still . |
| 14 | Carolyn asked , as they sat picking at some smoked ham and coleslaw Alan had found in the fridge . |
| 15 | Thoughts flitted to and fro in his brain like swallows : phrases from Ruggiero Miletti 's letter , an insinuation of Antonio Crepi 's , something Ivy had said in the car , what Valesio 's widow had told him , Luciano Bartocci 's brisk new manner , Italo Baldoni 's story , Cinzia Miletti 's breasts … |
| 16 | This opinion was consistent with the opinion which Mr. Tinker had formed while the deceased was at Samuel Saye House and that Dr. Rao had formed in the period before the deceased 's death . |
| 17 | It was the day following Ari 's first test and Leila , Ari and Roirbak had met in the canteen . |
| 18 | Patrick and Jane had remained in the flat in Kelly Street since they had brought there two days ago , they had n't ventured outside the door and had remained quiet and away from the windows . |
| 19 | Moran began to see how little Maggie had to do in the house and that she needed money for dances and clothes now . |
| 20 | ‘ I was looking after her chickens for her until she came home , ’ Liam had cried in the chapel . |
| 21 | Barycz sniffed thoughtfully , then laughed , recalling how Hammond had spat in the Director 's face . |
| 22 | Miss Alicia Lockwood had died in the night , quietly and painlessly in her sleep . |
| 23 | The room was a little dusky , it smelt of flowers which Franca had picked in the garden that morning . |
| 24 | Very soon the coast of England had vanished in the distance . |
| 25 | The picture , very like the one Rufus Fletcher had taken in the summer of 1976 , occupied the screen for about fifteen seconds . |
| 26 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , to put him out of his misery , ‘ you know that big skylight Sunil had put in the bathroom when the house was done up . ’ |
| 27 | Labour MP Don Dixon had said in the Commons on Tuesday that he believed Mr Fallon could have abused Parliament 's pre-paid mailing facilities . |
| 28 | One of the first women to be awarded a master 's degree in business administration from Harvard University , Franklin had served in the White House under President Richard Nixon . |
| 29 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 30 | Michael Walsh had taught in the school for six years , and had been involved in meetings in the Humanities department when the idea was discussed : |