Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | Mrs and Mrs Singh had received a letter offering Balbinder a place at Cedars . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | The Sun published a front page lead stating that a Labour London borough had banned the teaching of Baa Baa Black Sheep as racist . |
| 7 | erm called Bocodonism and it turns out , find out later in the book that the reason they outlawed this is because of the guy Bocodon who was , who originated the religion had made a deal with the head of the state of the country that he would outlaw it , so that 's how the religion thrived , because it was outlawed |
| 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 | It said it could n't understand why the British Amateur Weight Lifter 's Association had reached the decision not to take action against the two weighlifters . |
| 10 | On Tuesday evening , the family heard that a housing association had struck a deal with a local farmer to buy a house which will be refurbished , extended and rented to the family , but a last minute call yesterday morning to the Scottish Office for more time to allow the family to move was turned down . |
| 11 | In previous years the British Independent Programme Producers Association had taken a stand and we were initially distressed to find that this was not to be the case in 1990 — a decision based on the exorbitant cost ( they will retain a stand at MIP-TV ) . |
| 12 | Hundens Lane resident Ian Haszeldine said members of the allotment association had taken a lot of criticism about the way their land was kept . |
| 13 | Rumours that the Football Association had ordered a replay made it necessary for secretary Sir Frederick Wall to issue a statement confirming the result . |
| 14 | Castle Square tenants association had submitted a petition calling on the council to withdraw the offer . |
| 15 | Since 1870 , Banks insisted , the association had had an office in the town devoted exclusively to the rescue of women and children . |
| 16 | She went to the houses of friends , she was invited everywhere , but not one of her schoolmates had crossed the door of Maple Gardens . |
| 17 | His unexpected display of kindness had opened the floodgates again . |
| 18 | We know that Stein had designed an escapement action by 1777 because Mozart describes it in a letter of that year . |
| 19 | But these inversions were quite different in purpose and effect from those that Pound had practised indiscriminately in his earliest collections , and thereafter castigated ; these were not poeticisms , but indications that he was addressing a sophisticated urban intelligentsia , that of Great War London , just as propertius had addressed the sophisticates of Augustan Rome . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Alcuin had become an instrument of Frankish policy . |
| 22 | And yet the best form of relief for this boy whom grief had made a man would be in action . |
| 23 | Once the initial surge of grief had passed the funeral was almost a celebration . |
| 24 | IF THE Angry Brigade had chucked a bomb through the window of one particular Granada TV studio instead of Employment Secretary Robert Carr 's front room in '71 , the world would be free of Bernard Manning , Jim Bowen , Mike Reid , Stan Boardman , Frank Carson , and Tom O'Connor , such was the northern Working Men 's Club potential and future might of Johnny Hamp 's Comedians line-up . |
| 25 | Boro manager Lennie Lawrence was disappointed that his side had missed the opportunity to move into an automatic promotion place . |
| 26 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 27 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 28 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
| 29 | Stephenson had told the Pakistanis that Graveney 's remarks were a ‘ throwaway line ’ and had never been meant seriously . |
| 30 | AJAX , disqualified from European competition for two years after their fans had caused the abandonment of a UEFA Cup tie , had the punishment halved on appeal yesterday . |