Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pierre Balmin , Yves St Laurent , and Pierre Cardin had bought old palaces in the town and renovated them elegantly . |
| 2 | It seemed rather typical of her luck that she had ended up with the wrong sort of cat , and she could n't help wondering if Miss Hardbroom had made sure that the misfit kitten had been given to Mildred , rather than someone like Ethel . |
| 3 | The neighbour , Sandra Maher , told the Cardiff hearing that Miss Williams had seemed confused on Christmas Eve , but refused to see a doctor . |
| 4 | As we left Number 10 that evening , Downing Street had become thick with reporters and cameramen . |
| 5 | Khumalo , who was a leader of the Inkatha Youth Brigade until March 1991 , claimed at a news conference on Jan. 10 that 200 Inkatha activists had received massive financial aid as well as military training and political instruction from the SADF . |
| 6 | Miss Malabedeely had looked embarrassed , discovered on her knees like that , but it had n't mattered because of her niceness . |
| 7 | By 1875 , the Liverpool physiologist Richard Caton had detected tiny fluctuations in voltages present on the surface of the brains or scalps of monkeys , cats and rabbits . |
| 8 | This time Tuan Ti Fo had to work hard to defeat him . |
| 9 | Thus , on her appointment as Producer , Verity Lambert had to give careful consideration to the casting of her four main leads . |
| 10 | Edward Swift had founded Swift Investments , and left it to his eldest son , Charles . |
| 11 | Movingly he admitted that the divorce of his own parents — actor Terence Donovan and children 's TV presenter Sue McIntosh had left deep scars . |
| 12 | For once Miss Coldharbour had looked uncomfortable and said she 'd have to ask Canon Wheeler , from which Julia had inferred that they had hoped to get her for free . |
| 13 | And Alan Millet had spoken soft words … |
| 14 | Long before the end of the century , with increased expectancy of life and , except among the less privileged , rising standards of living , the interests and ambitions of the young were turning into very different channels from those that Jane Taylor had thought desirable . |
| 15 | Demonstrators reacted violently to the news that two NDP candidates had won local seats , and attempted to burn down a police station ; four supporters of independent candidates were killed , and some 60 civilians and seven policemen injured . |
| 16 | Polanski was also known to some of the Hollywood crowd through its inter-connection with the swingers of London and the skiing crowd who populated Gstaad and Aspen , notably his friendship of one of the men at the hub of the English scene , Victor Lownes , the cool , urbane and towering figure whom Hugh Hefner had appointed vice president of Playboy International and despatched to London to oversee the new playboy Club in Park Lane . |
| 17 | North Korea had made immense progress with the assistance of the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Was this the moment , he wondered , on this dank pine-shuttered road to Tyler 's Hard , that she had realized , for the first time , that there truly was no turning back , that the momentum of her progress towards whatever awaited her on Profitis Ilias had become irresistible ? |
| 19 | As Selborne pointed out , Russians captured in France after the Normandy invasion had expressed extreme apprehension about their return home . |
| 20 | Thoughtful as ever , Dr Wirths had made available the annex of his own living quarters — a delightful apartment ( with its own kitchen and bathroom ) beyond whose patterned lace curtains stood a high white fence . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , by early December Jordan had received firm commitments for some US$500,000,000 in aid ( from Canada , China , France , Germany , Japan , South Korea , the Netherlands and Taiwan ) ; in addition , a further US$12,600 million had been pledged by the European Communities ( EC ) and the Gulf financial crisis co-ordination group to the three so-called " front-line states " , Jordan , Egypt and Turkey . |
| 22 | However , three of the North-East 's Tory MPs dismissed Mr Milburn 's accusations and said the NHS reforms had made real progress in shortening hospital waiting lists . |
| 23 | Well , it was interesting , McLeish thought gravely , making an unnecessary note , that Giles Hawick had admitted unprompted to the local knowledge necessary for disposing of Angela Morgan 's body in that particular place . |
| 24 | If Aunt Emily had looked shocked before her eyes now dilated in horror . |
| 25 | Elisabeth Danziger had fallen silent . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , in Budapest , a top weightlifting official , Tamas Ajan , denied that Olympic champion Alexander Kurlovich had tested positive for steroids before the Games . |
| 27 | The Lancashire members were furious when they heard that Gooch and the other England selectors had axed Red Rose favourite Phil DeFreitas , preferring Essex pacemen Neil Foster and Mark Ilott . |
| 28 | Jane Dalgliesh had bought Larksoken Mill five years earlier when she had moved from her previous home on the Suffolk coast . |
| 29 | It was unfortunate that Aunt Bertha had seen fit to phone so soon . |
| 30 | That same evening , but after Simon Cormack had fallen asleep and Sam Somerville lay in Quinn 's arms while the tape-recorder breathed into the wall socket , five time-zones further west the White House committee met in the late evening . |