Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year earlier , at Erfurt , Napoleon had agreed with the tsar to accept the right of Russia to Wallachia and Moldavia , but to leave Serbia within the Ottoman empire . |
| 2 | Earl Spencer had collapsed in the courtyard at Althorp suffering from a massive cerebral haemorrhage and had been rushed to Northampton General Hospital . |
| 3 | If Kipling had stood on the Kop |
| 4 | McGowan was still sitting in the back , Creed had moved into the front . |
| 5 | A defence agreement signed by Kuwaiti and French government representatives in Paris on Aug. 18 was described as slightly less extensive than those which Kuwait had signed with the USA and the United Kingdom in September 1991 and February 1992 respectively [ see pp. 38455 ; 38790 . ] |
| 6 | At the Franco-German summit Kohl and Mitterrand had called on the April 28 summit to convene an intergovernmental conference on political union for December 1990 , to coincide with the planned summit on economic and monetary union . |
| 7 | According to a report on July 11 the French President François Mitterrand had called for the abolition of the consensus rule , saying that " this conference must adapt " . |
| 8 | The silver-framed photograph of Philippe Chaumont had appeared for the first time since he had known Chantal . |
| 9 | Part-way through entering the sale , Mr. S. had to go into the store-room to check a detail regarding the [ number of the ] machine that had been selected . |
| 10 | The way she saw Bella had changed during the course of that afternoon . |
| 11 | Like his father , Nicu Ceauşescu had gone to the top of the Communist Youth League at an early age . |
| 12 | Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone . |
| 13 | In the course of his visit to Sweden , Mandela had called on the international community to sever all diplomatic links with South Africa and to intensify sanctions in order to eliminate apartheid . |
| 14 | The report by Ramaphosa and others to Tambo said that Mrs Mandela had participated in the beatings of Stompie and other youths , and that the Crisis Committee had decided to demand that Mrs Mandela should produce Stompie and disband her private bodyguard , the so-called Mandela United Football Club . |
| 15 | She spoke to reporters from a ‘ secret location ’ at the weekend , describing how Mrs Mandela had arrived at the house early in the morning . |
| 16 | Certainly the fortunes of the Carews had declined over the years . |
| 17 | They spoke about the ‘ concerns and worries ’ President Gorbachev had expressed about the developments in East Germany in recent days . |
| 18 | The Aborigines had suffered at the hands of the sealers — many of the women were kidnapped and put to work plucking birds for the feather trade — but they retained their custom of a spontaneous welcome for anyone who put into port on the island . |
| 19 | In their different ways both Tom and Emilia had alluded to the same experience ; and before that experience she was utterly virgin . |
| 20 | David had moved from The King Bees to The Manish Boys and released a single , ‘ I Pity The Fool ’ , and having supported Gerry and the Pacemakers , The Kinks and Gene Pitney on tour , joined up with a group called The Lower Third , consisting of Graham Rivens , Phil Lancaster and Denis Taylor . |
| 21 | David had heard of the Wilikinses ' divorce there had been quite a lot about the circumstances surrounding it in the Birmingham Mail — and he had been told of a second , short-lived marriage . |
| 22 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw that David had dived below the surface . |
| 23 | David had come to the United States as a headliner . |
| 24 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 25 | What if Dr. Bach had lived in the desert and not in Oxfordshire with its lush fields and hedgerows . |
| 26 | Then he raised his wings and lifted himself up as Slorne had done to the very top of his cage . |
| 27 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |
| 28 | In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition . |
| 29 | Hainault had led to the development of close diplomatic ties between England and Hainault , Holland and Zeeland . |
| 30 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |