Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alone in the dining room — for Twomey had stopped softly jangling spoons and forks and fitting plates each to each , and gone , quietly as his shadow — Nicandra 's mind became a perfect blank . |
| 2 | And the number for March had gone down to single figures . |
| 3 | The figures showed that the jobless total for January had reached more than 7,700,000 or 6.2 per cent of the workforce , up from 6.1 per cent the previous month , with an increase of 230,000 in unemployment outside the farming sector . |
| 4 | However , charges subsequently set by individual local councils were almost without exception in excess of this level , and on March 21 Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that the average actual charge for England had turned out to be £363 ; he blamed this excess principally on the actions of Labour controlled councils ( and announcements on April 3 and 10 listed a total of 21 local authorities which were to be " capped " — i.e. their expenditure limited to a level determined by the central government ) . |
| 5 | His preparations for carrying out work at Arundel Castle , Sussex — a project curtailed by his death — were reported by a correspondent of the antiquary Richard Gough [ q.v. ] in 1787 : ‘ At Greystoke Castle I found Mr. Hiorne the gothic architect , whom the Duke of Norfolk had invited there to consult with relative to his intended repairs at Arundel Castle ; and we made a party to see Alnwick Castle , etc. in Northumberland , for Mr. Hiorne 's information . ’ |
| 6 | From this one can infer that it belongs chronologically to that transition period in Spanish ceramics when the displaced potters of Malaga had set up afresh in Valencia but were still using the traditional designs of Andalusia in their new environment . |
| 7 | As early as 1566 , the Earl of Sussex had pointed out that Calvinism was being preached throughout the country , and after 1570 it was difficult to hear or read any non-Calvinist theology . |
| 8 | In the past the people of Elling had lived communally in a series of longhouses that were not , as now , separated into single family dwellings . |
| 9 | As this demonstrated , the defection of Warwick had opened up gaps in the king 's authority and Gloucester was again an immediate beneficiary . |
| 10 | As this demonstrated , the defection of Warwick had opened up gaps in the king 's authority and Gloucester was again an immediate beneficiary . |
| 11 | A great wedge of MacIans had driven in to cut off the Macleans ' attacking force ; the few men left fighting by the ships had neither time nor numbers to relaunch them . |
| 12 | Ordinarily she would have relished the variety which the creators of Moloch had offered up for her pleasure without a qualm or a second thought , but this time something was getting to her , making her nervous . |
| 13 | The United Mineworkers of Scotland had enrolled about 4,000 Fife miners , but otherwise there was nothing comparable with the Communist-led unions of Germany or France . |
| 14 | In reality it was not part of the city at all ; the builders of Kinsai had carved away the plateau and slotted the massive stones of the defences into place around the old structure so that the marvellous symmetry of the circular layout would not be interrupted . |
| 15 | This latter business was undertaken in the most difficult financial circumstances and , even after the newly founded Bank of England had taken over from Herne , it was his credit that kept the artillery train in Flanders from starving late in 1694 . |
| 16 | Mr Nelson responded to interventions by MPs on both sides who claimed that if the Bank of England had acted sooner fewer depositors would have lost cash . |
| 17 | The marriage of Henry of Anjou to Eleanor and his accession , two years later , to the throne of England had brought together under a single sceptre peoples and provinces which hardly knew each other . |
| 18 | Following the thread of light upwards into the darkness , Bernice found that the curves and kinks which had been so obvious from the surface of Belial had straightened out a little more . |
| 19 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |
| 20 | The first earl of Westmorland had married twice and had dismembered his patrimony to provide for his family by his second wife , Joan Beaufort , granting them the lordships of Middleham , Sheriff Hutton and Penrith . |
| 21 | The first earl of Westmorland had married twice and had dismembered his patrimony to provide for his family by his second wife , Joan Beaufort , granting them the lordships of Middleham , Sheriff Hutton and Penrith . |
| 22 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |
| 23 | Oh , heavens — suppose the subject of Hugh had cropped up today ? |
| 24 | erm The warden of Merton had to get out of Oxford quick when the king arrived , because , and spent the erm war in London , name was Nathaniel Brent , and he was quite an important man in the organisation of the Parliamentary war effort , and Lincoln had rather mixed loyalties , too . |
| 25 | Although the Jones elected not to continue the intervention , their handling of Olwyn had changed considerably . |
| 26 | If the House of Commons had done so in relation to the allegedly offending provision under review in Pickin 's case , would the provision nevertheless have remained valid ? |
| 27 | By the 1960s the State of Israel had become more secure . |
| 28 | Up to this moment , the Messiahship of Jesus had passed almost unrecognised . |
| 29 | This paranoid fear of a Catholic insurrection was heightened in 1641 by the news that the Catholic Irish of Ulster had risen up in armed rebellion against the Protestant settlers of that province , and it subsequently became one of the most powerful influences motivating those who took up arms against Charles I in the civil war . |
| 30 | The chief cargo handled here was coal , and within a century the population of Goole had shot up from under 500 to 20,000 The docks are close to the centre of the town , which was largely the creation of the canal company that built the docks with their brick warehouses and harbour offices . |