Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The little maid whom Elisa had seen earlier standing by the door in the sitting room came into the dining room on both occasions and whispered something into his ear . |
| 5 | Negotiations with Exeter , for whom Bastin had signed professionally only weeks before , were successfully concluded , but Bastin himself , showing remarkable maturity for his age , saw his training as an electrical engineer as a sounder career prospect than Arsenal . |
| 6 | I rang Morrison and he told me Nigel had driven down to Streatley and found the body dead in bed at about quarter past eleven on Sunday night . |
| 7 | There was nothing Karen had liked better than being taken on a guided tour of three or four climaxes . |
| 8 | After Rhydoldog , Jane was invited to undertake a second phase of decoration at Remaisnil and , as one of her first gestures , removed a series of framed modern posters which Bernard had positioned up the main stairway ; the focus of the hallway henceforth was a magnificent eighteenth-century Brussels tapestry . |
| 9 | He held his gun ready — one of the Kalashnikovs which Trent had smuggled ashore . |
| 10 | Workers walked off the morning shift in 66 enterprises , including the giant Minsk tractor works , which Gorbachev had visited barely six weeks before [ see p. 38079 ] . |
| 11 | When Goethe , in a scene of Faust I written in Rome , evokes the travail of modern man and shows it being assuaged by the contemplation of the " silver figures of the ancient world " ( der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten ) these shapes are the ideal models of Greek man which Winckelmann had set up in his historico-aesthetic studies ; and when , in his " classical " drama Iphigenia in Tauris , Goethe 's fervent heroine is eventually victorious and the play resolves itself into a serene and harmonious close , it is the spirit of Winckelmann that triumphs . |
| 12 | Alan stared at the noticeboard on the opposite wall , pretending to read something but seeing nothing but a blur of the leaflets , notes , scraps of ribbon and withered buttonholes which Lucy had pegged up there . |
| 13 | He looked exactly the same except for his hair , which Hari had shaved off for his experiments and which had now grown into a furry black stubble through which the numbered segments of his skull could still be faintly perceived . |
| 14 | Before Mrs Carroll could stop her Benny had galloped out of the shop and up the road towards the convent . |
| 15 | As such , the move attempted to recapture the populist politics of " People Power " from which Aquino had mobilized so effectively against Marcos . |
| 16 | His dream was to transform the world , as the key to the Theory of Evolution for which Darwin had striven so long . |
| 17 | She leaned against the wooden door of the orchard , which Léonie had left slightly ajar , and put a hand to the stitch in her side . |
| 18 | In brief , the good leader , the man who could inspire his army , not merely he who could avoid the obvious pitfalls of generalship which Frontinus had pointed out , might be born with certain inherent qualities , but these had to be developed in the only way that could lead to success , through practice and experience . |
| 19 | It was not until the following Monday that the affidavits on which Julia had worked so hard and for so long were presented to the court . |
| 20 | Near the start there are a couple of pieces which Tolkien had written up to thirty years before , both rewritten a little for their new context : Frodo 's ‘ Man in the Moon ’ song in the Prancing Pony , Sam 's ‘ Rhyme of the Troll ’ near Weathertop . |
| 21 | She walked up the same hill which d'Urberville had driven down so wildly that June day . |
| 22 | Maureen hid her feelings and plied him with tea and food from the trolley which Helen had wheeled in . |
| 23 | Eliot was fascinated by the idea which Cornford had put forward ‘ in ‘ The Origin of Attic Comedy ’ , [ that ] this [ medicine-man ] Doctor may be identical with the Doctor who is called in to assist Punch after he has been thrown by his horse' . |
| 24 | It turned out the reason we all had to face north-west was because it was the direction ‘ from which Rose had come forth ’ ! |
| 25 | ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 26 | However , there was a separate issue that stemmed from Mr Gillespie 's original agreement with Lawrence which MIH had taken over . |
| 27 | There was also the monthly parish draw — top prize , £5 — a ‘ Children 's Corner ’ ( rabbits and a cross to colour in this month ) and Peter 's ‘ Letter from the Rector ’ , which Anna had given up reading because she could not recognize the man in the message . |
| 28 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 29 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 30 | ‘ Awful , awful trouble , ’ she replied and began to re-tell the story which Derek had told earlier in the evening . |