Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surviving accounts of his triumph dwell on the size of the booty , but of greater interest to us is its dispersal : statues were dedicated in Italian and even in Spanish towns , where Mummius had earlier served as praetor ( judicial magistrate ) and provincial governor . |
| 2 | With supporters opposed to the Douglas braggarts he set off towards Tantallon castle , where Angus had precipitately fled on learning that the king was loose and in vengeful mood . |
| 3 | The 18-year-old 's third Test century came from only 135 balls , and contained 14 fours : he hit two more before giving a catch to second slip , where Moody had earlier dropped Kapil Dev on 0 . |
| 4 | The growth of this industry was the most fundamental change in the country 's economy in the later Middle Ages ; where England had previously relied for its exports largely on the export of raw wool for the more advanced industrial economies of the Low Countries and Italy , it became in this period a manufacturing nation in its own right , and cloth replaced wool as its main resource in international trade . |
| 5 | Having given herself a good talking to , and feeling ashamed of her misplaced , foolish pride , Laura made her way into the twins ' small bedroom , where Ross had just finished telling them a story . |
| 6 | An old rocking chair , where Jake had always sat , stood like a cliff . |
| 7 | She settled in a four-roomed cottage with a garden at No. 13 Rue Norvins , where Zola had once lived . |
| 8 | British rule was even being extended again ( under pressure from Australia and New Zealand ) into the South Pacific , where Fiji had recently been acquired . |
| 9 | Western reports , citing a PLA source , said that the 1,300-strong group mainly comprised officers from the Guangzhou and Chengdu military commands in the south where Zhao had previously worked . |
| 10 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 11 | Behind the town , where Wallace had ecstatically rambled with his butterfly-net through glowing forests , the hills were bare . |
| 12 | She settled down to my right where Steve had just been sitting . |
| 13 | Robert , Herluin , Hugh and the stranger departed in the direction of the abbot 's lodging , where Radulfus had already come out to greet them . |
| 14 | He made me drive , so Armstrong had yet another policeman in the back , and directed me towards Mile End . |
| 15 | Minto was ‘ more excited ’ than Warnie had ever seen her when he returned from Aldershot far week-end leave , happy to leave behind him his fellow-officers , whom he nicknamed the Aldershits . |
| 16 | Although Mitterrand had reportedly originally intended to exclude the United States , Havel persuaded him during a visit to Paris in March 1991 that delegates be invited from members of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) and would thus include the USA , Canada and Japan [ see p. 38155 for EBRD membership ] . |
| 17 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 18 | The reader is both astonished and utterly convinced , as he is later on in the interview when Porfiry plays the dangerous game of saying he has got no real proof , he 's going on hunch and ‘ psychology ’ — so Raskolnikov had better confess . |
| 19 | The leader of the more radical Khalqi faction in the PDPA , Hafizullah Amin , declared that although Afghanistan had virtually no proletariat , its vanguard party , the PDPA , was a proletarian party because of its internationalist connnections . |
| 20 | The cat , delighted that its ordeal was over , burrowed under the covers like a furry hot-water bottle , and although Mildred had only meant to sit and get warm , within a few minutes her eyelids began to droop , and before long she was fast asleep — so fast asleep that she did not hear the door opening very quietly . |
| 21 | These were of immense consequence in giving elected Indian officials their first real taste of power , and in encouraging them to ask for more — much more , needless to say , than Curtis had either foreseen or intended . |
| 22 | Although Melody had already said her farewells to Seb , she found time to visit Anna before she left with the others . |
| 23 | He held his shoulders well back and straight , and although Camille had never got close enough to make certain , she was convinced that he strode with his eyes half closed and a small , smart smile on his lips : unique , invincible , the splendid solitary leader of the procession , never to be challenged , usurped or tripped up . |
| 24 | She was n't a Wickrithe girl any more ; she belonged to Coniston , and Uncle Nick was more her father than Jake had ever been . |
| 25 | ‘ So Nigel had absolutely no motive to kill his father . |
| 26 | Blue-banded grass parakeets abounded in the neighbourhood of Spring Hill , feeding on corn from the margins of cultivated land in flocks larger than Gould had ever seen before ; compared with the proliferation of different species around Hobart , however , only a few birds were collected on this overland journey . |
| 27 | That was his reward for a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy in a cavalry regiment and it was more money than Sharpe had ever earned in his life . |
| 28 | It was only a faint smile , glimmering , but more than Ruth had ever thought she 'd see from Fand . |
| 29 | Partly as a result , Whitehaven came to prominence in the Virginia tobacco trade during the 1740s , although Lowther had only indirect links with the merchant community . |
| 30 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |