Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was based on the principle of ‘ a nation in arms ’ , much as Napoleon had employed a levee en masse . |
| 2 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 3 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 4 | Mrs and Mrs Singh had received a letter offering Balbinder a place at Cedars . |
| 5 | She and Mr Singh had visited the school for a Christmas event and had been pleased to hear that Balbinder was being moved into the second class . |
| 6 | The right-wing Hindu-backed Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) formed the state government in Uttar Pradesh , and BJP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had invited an all-party delegation to visit the site after coming under criticism from nearly all political parties for allegedly violating court orders regarding the disputed plot . |
| 7 | V. P. Singh had launched an inquiry into the HDW submarine deal on April 9 , 1987 , three days before he resigned as Defence Minister in the Gandhi government [ see pp. 35381-82 ] . |
| 8 | The CPV had made a number of errors in the past ; it had taken too much time setting forth the initial stage of the transitional period to socialism and had made " many mistakes " in reforming prices , wages and money and in ideological and organizational tasks . |
| 9 | Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door . |
| 10 | I KNEW that Earl Spencer had made a special provision in his will . |
| 11 | Cunningham had spent an agreeable week in the country with his friend Van Cheele . |
| 12 | We know that Stein had designed an escapement action by 1777 because Mozart describes it in a letter of that year . |
| 13 | Before Mikey had swung the bus around and brought it to a stop she had seen their pale faces in the wet night , the two umbrellas . |
| 14 | Alcuin had become an instrument of Frankish policy . |
| 15 | Stephenson had told the Pakistanis that Graveney 's remarks were a ‘ throwaway line ’ and had never been meant seriously . |
| 16 | Corbett had discovered no trace of any assassin active in England . |
| 17 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 18 | He was n't sure how Creed had covered the distance between the window and the door . |
| 19 | Creed had organised the funeral himself . |
| 20 | Boudiaf had met the leaders of eight opposition parties on Feb. 9 in order to give them prior notice of the measures . |
| 21 | Fakrid and Jinkwa had spent an anxious hour waiting for the Doctor . |
| 22 | Jinkwa had left the command vehicle under the control of the Environments Officer and ventured forth in a scouting party with two of his troopers . |
| 23 | Although a number of embassies in Kuwait had defied the Iraqi orders that they should close by Aug.24 [ see p. 37639 ] , all but a dozen ( including the USA , Canada and eight EC countries ) had abandoned them by Aug. 12 because of conditions there . |
| 24 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 25 | SHe had been impressed with how Tammuz had adjusted the machine to behave just like a real counter-girl . |
| 26 | Tammuz had dimmed the lights , put his feet up , and asked the computer to tune in the wall-screen . |
| 27 | Dr Neil had left the kitchen , to finish his toilet , presumably . |
| 28 | When Matey had ventured a favourable comment about his midnight drinking having stopped , he had simply said , ‘ You must thank McAllister for that , ’ and so her influence seemed to be a good one . |
| 29 | On April 7 Mitterrand had announced the cancellation of a further 10 per cent of Poland 's US$5,200 million debt to France , Poland 's second largest creditor . |
| 30 | Mitterrand had visited the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Oct. 3-4 , holding talks on Oct. 4 with King Fahd before travelling on to Yanbu to see French troops there ; an announcement on Oct. 17 that the French contingent was to be supplemented by the dispatch of a further 500 troops would bring its total strength to 750 air and 5,700 ground troops . |