Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Mistress Philippa had invited us all for supper in Beauchamp Tower . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Mistress Philippa had invited us for supper . ’ |
| 3 | Fernando Serra had instructed him to instruct her when she arrived that there was no room at the inn ! |
| 4 | Bernard Warner had lost that sort of a sum from that sort of a fortune . |
| 5 | On Jan. 14 Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut had confirmed that the USA would double to 96 the number of combat aircraft stationed at the NATO military base at Incirlik . |
| 6 | Allan Stewart had flushed with discomfiture at the defusing of his story . |
| 7 | Before we reached the BUPA hospital in Paddington , I felt I knew every temperature change Salome had gone through in the past five days , what her grandmother — phoning twice daily from Jamaica — thought about life , the universe and young people driving around in fast cars , and how difficult Frank had found going to the launderette . |
| 8 | Lance Corporal Garry Manning had demonstrated both . |
| 9 | His rather surprising decision to accept the modest living of Little Tuckett had put an end to that . |
| 10 | Ung Phan had served as Minister of Communications , Transport and Posts until his arrest in mid-1990 for attempting to establish a new , liberal political party in Cambodia [ see pp. 37598-99 ] . |
| 11 | Nyamwisi Movingi had resigned from this post on March 22 , accusing the government of leading the country to disaster . |
| 12 | He observed that the economy had expanded steadily since 1981 , and repeated something that Kenneth Baker had said earlier in the week : that there was ‘ no precedent for eight years of sustained growth ’ . |
| 13 | ( On Jan. 3 the UK Home Secretary Kenneth Baker had held talks in Delhi on a draft extradition treaty . ) |
| 14 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 15 | I was so pleased to note that someone more knowledgeable than your reviewer Robert Nye about the Rev William Gaskell had written to you ( the Rev Andrew M Hill , Points of View , 13 March ) . |
| 16 | Remembering how General Steiner had met his end in the Gestapo cellars at Prinz Albrechtstrasse , it seemed likely to Schellenberg that Himmler might have other reasons . |
| 17 | Colonel Windsor had to prompt when Tubby relapsed once again into a brooding torpor . |
| 18 | Colonel Windsor had asked . |
| 19 | But in her heart Isabel had known it was too late . |
| 20 | General Orsborn had written that at a first High Council newcomers should keep quiet and listen to what people say . |
| 21 | High adventure drew from Dickson McCunn a latent heroism : Thomas Carlyle Craw had buried his sense and courage far more deeply but they are at least glimpsed at the end of an adventure story which interprets the concept of honour in terms of individual rather than of chivalric motives . |
| 22 | Both were fined by Southampton and boss Ian Branfoot had to think seriously about playing them together . |
| 23 | If he had n't known that fact himself , Devlin Parnham had pointed it out to him repeatedly with a self-satisfied little smirk . |
| 24 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Drake had told jurors to remember that the ‘ hurt ’ caused to Mr Donovan lasted less than a year and would end with a verdict in his favour . |
| 25 | Announcing the cuts to the National Assembly on Feb. 5 , Prime Minister Michel Rocard had said that wage costs and the cost of servicing the public debt and the defence budget would not be included in economies . |
| 26 | Graham defended the decision on the grounds that Bolger and the French Prime Minister Michel Rocard had agreed during the latter 's visit to New Zealand in April 1991 that the Rainbow Warrior affair was closed . |
| 27 | In the same instant Ward had revved the engine and rammed the gear lever home . |
| 28 | To Nora 's barely hidden horror William had joined a partnership in Northumberland . |
| 29 | But even if Patrick Milligan had known the size of ‘ Buck ’ O'Hara 's munificence , he would not have raised any objections . |
| 30 | Having lost her mother the moment she was born , the baby needed a nursemaid , so Patrick Milligan had hired the rat-faced Mrs MacDonagh who lived opposite . |