Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Monde of Sept. 29 quoted Djohar as alleging that Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim , whom he had dismissed as head of government on July 4 [ see p. 38996 ; for his appointment in January 1992 see pp. 38706-07 ] , was behind the Sept. 26 coup attempt . |
| 2 | Up in the short-term car-park at Terminal Two , Lewis had to drive from floor to floor before he found a slot in which to put the car . |
| 3 | Read out aloud , it seemed to bear out word for word what Alfred Wells had recalled on oath in court . |
| 4 | The voice had veered from exasperation to incredulity . |
| 5 | No one had heard of access to ink print information in those days and as I was the only blind student there I did n't feel I had any support to ask for it to be made available . |
| 6 | We had stopped in Geysir for diesel and here it was , only three in the morning and we were half-way from the end of the road . |
| 7 | The prominence he had given to instruction in science had evidently made matters worse . |
| 8 | Poindexter 's conviction was quashed in a split two-to-one judgement on the grounds that the recollection of trial witnesses had been tainted by testimony which he had given before Congress under immunity in 1987 . |
| 9 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 10 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 11 | By the end of the fifteenth century many chantries had served their term : some had dissolved through lack of maintenance on the part of the families concerned , while others disappeared through amalgamation ; so that by the time of the suppression there were not more than 200 spread among the City churches . |
| 12 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 13 | However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case . |
| 14 | The Social Democratic Republican Party ( PRDS ) , the party with closest links to President Moaouia Ould Sidi Taya , was led by Sid Ahmed Ould Baba , who had resigned as Minister of Interior , Posts and Communications in July . |
| 15 | On Feb. 26 it was reported that Andras Galszecsy had resigned as Minister without Portfolio in charge of national security affairs . |
| 16 | I was very proud of the reputation I had earned for exactness on timing . |
| 17 | Since the revolution he had come under attack from laity and junior clergy , while Culture Minister Andrei Plesu condemned his church 's failure to provide a basis for an organized opposition movement to Ceausescu . |
| 18 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 19 | A couple of years earlier Wayne had come into conflict with director John Huston when they made The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1957 . |
| 20 | More recently , in Mary Tudor 's reign , the family had come into favour at court because of its reputation for piety and loyalty to the Church , and Sir Gregory had been able to build a new house on the site of the old . |
| 21 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 22 | There were no constraints and from the outset the showmen were not unaware that many of their patrons had come in search of entertainment that was not entirely respectable . |
| 23 | The worst of it was that Charlotte had intended to emphasize how she had come in search of information , not confrontation . |
| 24 | Detained under a section of the Mental Health Act in the first place , these patients had responded to treatment in hospital , and their leave was subject to a requirement that treatment should be continued outside hospital . |
| 25 | By the end of September both houses of the Swiss parliament had voted in principle in favour of the EEA . |
| 26 | That relative advantage was enhanced after the passing of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act , which allowed States to pass ‘ Right-to-Work ’ legislation prohibiting unions from insisting on ‘ closed shops ’ at plants , even those at which a majority of the workers had voted in favour of union representation in collective bargaining ( on which see Clark , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Croatians had voted in favour of secession in May [ see p. 38024 ] but at that time had appeared not to favour an immediate declaration . |
| 28 | He had to recite from memory in front of his headmaster fifty Greek lines from the play Medea — a severe punishment , for learning fifty lines of verse in a language imperfectly known would take several hours of spare time . |
| 29 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 30 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |