Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singh had served as Prime Minister since early December 1989 . |
| 2 | Allegations that Kuwait had moved into Iraqi territory were " a falsification of reality and a resumé of inverted truths " because it was Iraq which had a " full history of violations of Kuwaiti territories " . |
| 3 | During the war , Aziz claimed , Kuwait had advanced into Iraqi territory and had set up military establishments and oil installations . |
| 4 | Dora had asked about sporting facilities in the region and been promised an interview with the manager of a leisure complex in Alès ; Rose , who belonged to an amateur drama group in Carshalton , was to meet the director of a forthcoming performance of ‘ son et lumière ’ whose office was in Anduze . |
| 5 | In a letter to the summit meeting President Gorbachev had asked for immediate support for his economic restructuring programme in the form of credits , technical co-operation , personnel training , joint ventures and joint projects . ) |
| 6 | It was a priority for Soviet leaders to limit the damage their intervention in Afghanistan had wrought on Soviet Iranian relations . |
| 7 | The location aside , it was a holiday much like many others which Branson had taken in recent years : the party of friends consisted almost exclusively of Virgin employees — Simon Draper , Nik Powell , Ken Berry . |
| 8 | As for species origins , Lyell had argued against spontaneous generation and against new species arising by the modification ( ‘ transmutation ’ ) of older ones . |
| 9 | By the time the fleet of ambulances arrived , Elfman had metamorphosized from popular hero to universal laughing-stock and he never fully recovered from the experience . |
| 10 | Chatterton had spoken with genuine admiration . |
| 11 | The house of Albret had emerged from obscure origins to become the most important single lineage in the duchy . |
| 12 | By then Woosnam 's tie was loosened and the top button of his shirt undone , as he underwent a late-night press conference just as Sandy Lyle and Nick Faldo had done in previous years . |
| 13 | Waiting just like the other four men Hitch had positioned at various places along the Thames . |
| 14 | But whatever else was lost , the impetus that Winckelmann had given to Greek scholarship in Germany survived ; and if we wish to understand its subsequent history and the remarkable growth of German classical scholarship as a whole , we should not forget his formative contribution , even though much of the impending development can hardly be traced directly back to him . |
| 15 | Azerbaijan , Armenia , Byelarus , Moldova and Ukraine had applied for similar status . |
| 16 | A former Justice Minister who had been elected Speaker only the previous January [ see p. 36943 ] , Ninn-Hansen had come under considerable criticism for a directive which he had issued in 1988 as Justice Minister to immigration authorities to give low priority to reuniting the families of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in Denmark . |
| 17 | After the contents of the twentieth Party Congress speech sank in , there was a general revolt , logically enough , among the East European satellite regimes which Stalin had held in contemptuous subjugation . |
| 18 | In the final confrontation Jaq and Grey Knights had fought through savage ranks of cultists who all showed some mark of Chaos — a tentacle , a sting , tendrils instead of hair , suckers , claws ; through to the warlock of the coven ensconced deep within the caverns where young captives whimpered piteously in cages . |
| 19 | OLIVER rolled his eyes back , lit a cigarette and said that the very phrase common sense was a contradiction in terms , and if Man — at which point he pretended to be extremely embarrassed and correct himself to Man-or-Woman — if Man-or-Woman had relied upon common sense over the previous millennia we 'd all still be living in mud huts and eating frightful food and listening to Del Shannon records . |
| 20 | They had been to see La Boheme , at which Mr O'Hara had cried quite openly , and which Ellie had sat through dry-eyed , but with a breaking heart . |
| 21 | May had burst into full glorious bloom , turning the surrounding countryside into a scene from a painting with its rich greens and golds , but Fran could draw no pleasure from it . |
| 22 | A case in point was a series of devastating strikes that Finniston had to weather at British Steel in 1974 . |
| 23 | Louis Agassiz had shown from geological evidence that glaciers ( not just icebergs as Smith thought ) had existed in the British Isles . |
| 24 | Vico had looked for historical fact in the poetic metaphors of myth and legend ; this piecing together was his ‘ new science ’ . |
| 25 | Merkel had worked on Big Wednesday , probably the best film about surfing ever made . |
| 26 | Bruges and Ghent had grown from modest beginnings to be flourishing centres of manufacture and trade ; and the wealth of London and England indeed were closely linked with them . |
| 27 | From July onwards the town of Whaddon had waited with bated breath . |
| 28 | Their dining-room table was set , its centrepiece her lovely home-baked cake , which Carol had iced in white with a red frill . |
| 29 | Amidst suspicions that the North Korean government was prevaricating in order to relocate and conceal evidence of its nuclear weapons programme , the South Korean and US governments on March 2 reiterated their demand that North Korea had to submit to inter-Korean and IAEA inspections by April and May respectively . |
| 30 | On 1 June , Thorneycroft warned that because of the possibility of an Autumn election , Heath had asked for interim reports by the end of the month . |