Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generous to a fault , he had booked the ballroom suite at the best hotel in Lexington and a popular jazz band to entertain the several hundred guests whom Cora-Beth had invited for Harry 's party . |
| 2 | His lore says that Abraham Stoker , a graduate of Trinity College , Dublin , had given faithful service as general amanuensis to Sir Henry Irving , the fearsome Victorian actor-manager — for whom Stoker had given up his civil service career . |
| 3 | The man whom Patrick had seen through binoculars was using an artillery sight to fine-tune the angle . |
| 4 | I remembered all kinds of girls whom Harvey had wanted to marry at some time or other . |
| 5 | It was the largest I had ever seen , split up into walled units , ten of them Ward had said , and when I reached the western limit of it I was face to face with the heaving bulk of the ocean . |
| 6 | John Buddle , a mine inspector and owner 's agent with whom Davy had consulted , wrote to Davy on 1 June , 1816 : ‘ I am convinced that with the happy invention of the safe lamp large proportions of the coal mines of the empire will be rendered available , which otherwise might have remained inaccessible . ’ |
| 7 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 8 | It is at this stage that it becomes necessary to record a debt of gratitude to Headingley , for whom Ian had played at club level and who suggested he might be interested in coaching . |
| 9 | the two remaining messengers whom Burnell had sent with them , to accompany him fully-armed . |
| 10 | Through the three days of their charter , Gomez was the only one of the four Latinos with whom Trent had formed the slightest relationship . |
| 11 | Andropulos , whom Grierson had reported as having a remarkable affinity for scotch , seemed relaxed to the point of garrulity . |
| 12 | Charles Caldecott , who owned the Whetstone Park Stud , was an odd character whom Kelly had met a couple of times and had never really taken to . |
| 13 | This could suggest a domestic crisis , for the Chronicle records immediately after that the aetheling , Ealdberht , whom Ine had exiled , went into Surrey and Sussex and it is not inconceivable that Ealdberht was either Ine 's son or the son of his brother , Ingild , who died in 718 , seeking recognition perhaps as Ine 's heir . |
| 14 | All his energy was concentrated on putting one foot in front of the other , to get out to the Lock before Marie provoked Simon into uncoiling his other self , the one hidden behind the attentive , polite , charming Simon in whom Marie had invested so much of her trust and hope for the future . |
| 15 | They included railway and police personnel , Mary Ashley , a coach driver , the chemist from whom Tawell had purchased the prussic acid , and the barmaid of the Windmill Inn . |
| 16 | There was , though , always Lou , to whom Ken had introduced the delights of a theatre that she had hardly known existed . |
| 17 | On 7 November he was made justiciar of north Wales for life in place of Hastings to whom Warwick had given the office in the previous August . |
| 18 | On 7 November he was made justiciar of north Wales for life in place of Hastings to whom Warwick had given the office in the previous August . |
| 19 | His own queen , whom Surere had revered so deeply , when she requested that she be buried not in the new City of the Horizon , but near her old home , in the Valley of the Dead across the river from the Southern Capital , had been granted her wish , though it had hurt Akhenaten deeply . |
| 20 | Kingsley Barrett , the Methodist , whom Ramsey had chosen for the faculty at Durham , wrote of his belief that a special providence must watch over the Church of England to give them at least some good bishops in spite of the deplorable method of their appointment . |
| 21 | It also provided an opportunity for Devi Lal , whom Singh had dismissed as his deputy in August , to rally opposition to the government [ see pp. 37710-11 ; 37774-75 ] . |
| 22 | Stratford , a royal diplomat , had been provided to Winchester in 1323 against the wishes of the king and paid a heavy penalty for it : his temporalities were seized and exploited for a year , and even after they were restored Stratford was placed under recognizances of £10,000 to the king ( £2000 down and the rest conditional upon his good conduct ) , £1000 to the Despensers , and 1000 marks to the chancellor , Robert Baldock , a clerk for whom Edward had intended the bishopric ; moreover , Stratford was summoned to answer in the King 's Bench for his conduct of a royal mission to the papacy . |
| 23 | About that time the Tower of London fell to the rebel citizens and Bishop Stapledon of Exeter , whom Edward had left in charge of the city , was lynched : he was dragged from his horse to the great cross in Cheapside , stripped of his armour and beheaded with a bread-knife . |
| 24 | Mancini reported that the woman in question was a foreigner whom Edward had married by proxy on the orders of the earl of Warwick , a reference perhaps to Bona of Savoy . |
| 25 | Mancini reported that the woman in question was a foreigner whom Edward had married by proxy on the orders of the earl of Warwick , a reference perhaps to Bona of Savoy . |
| 26 | Among the former was the yeoman of the chamber Nicholas Leventhorpe of Bramham ( Yorks. ) who acted as go-between for the exiled king and Henry Percy , whom Edward had restored to the earldom of Northumberland in 1470 . |
| 27 | Among the former was the yeoman of the chamber Nicholas Leventhorpe of Bramham ( Yorks. ) who acted as go-between for the exiled king and Henry Percy , whom Edward had restored to the earldom of Northumberland in 1470 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For instance , the peasants of the Maramureş to whom Ceauşescu had appealed to preserve their ancient ways had only been able to do so until then because their poor hill-side farms had not yet been collectivized . |
| 30 | Bérégovoy , hitherto Minister of State for Economy , Finance and Budget , replaced Edith Cresson , whom Mitterrand had appointed 10 |