Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [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 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 . |
| 7 | We know that Stein had designed an escapement action by 1777 because Mozart describes it in a letter of that year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Alcuin had become an instrument of Frankish policy . |
| 10 | Stephenson had told the Pakistanis that Graveney 's remarks were a ‘ throwaway line ’ and had never been meant seriously . |
| 11 | Corbett had discovered no trace of any assassin active in England . |
| 12 | He was n't sure how Creed had covered the distance between the window and the door . |
| 13 | Creed had organised the funeral himself . |
| 14 | Boudiaf had met the leaders of eight opposition parties on Feb. 9 in order to give them prior notice of the measures . |
| 15 | Jinkwa had left the command vehicle under the control of the Environments Officer and ventured forth in a scouting party with two of his troopers . |
| 16 | SHe had been impressed with how Tammuz had adjusted the machine to behave just like a real counter-girl . |
| 17 | Tammuz had dimmed the lights , put his feet up , and asked the computer to tune in the wall-screen . |
| 18 | Dr Neil had left the kitchen , to finish his toilet , presumably . |
| 19 | On April 7 Mitterrand had announced the cancellation of a further 10 per cent of Poland 's US$5,200 million debt to France , Poland 's second largest creditor . |
| 20 | Mitterrand had visited the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Oct. 3-4 , holding talks on Oct. 4 with King Fahd before travelling on to Yanbu to see French troops there ; an announcement on Oct. 17 that the French contingent was to be supplemented by the dispatch of a further 500 troops would bring its total strength to 750 air and 5,700 ground troops . |
| 21 | In November President François Mitterrand had proposed the convening of the High Court , the only body which could try politicians for offences committed while in ministerial office . |
| 22 | Prior to his visit to the Middle East , Mitterrand had held a round of talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Paris , and Mubarak had also held talks with visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on Nov. 15 . |
| 23 | Now they were heard to ‘ twitter with execration ’ at the news that the Nazi SA had seized a number of Jews in the town of Worms , thrown them into a pigsty and beaten them . |
| 24 | [ In fact , Lufthansa had pioneered an airmail service to South America in 1934 , by way of a depot ship in the South Atlantic . |
| 25 | There had been a tense week , in which Alexandra came to hear that Dora had wanted the position of head cook at Langley Dene , but she said nothing to Dora , and continued to interest herself in the kitchen just as before , and the matter went away quietly of its own accord . |
| 26 | Braun had asked the City Council to create , or at least support , the creation of a system of pathways which would connect the several museums bordering Museumsquare in order to encourage visitors to circulate . |
| 27 | Earlier Bernie Slaven had hit the post and seen a shot cleared off the line and a corner from Walker had struck the bar . |
| 28 | The last fling came when the Lewes Bonfire Boys fought a pitched battle in 1847 with troops and the Metropolitan Police after Lord Chichester had read the Riot Act . |
| 29 | In late January ULFA had issued a statement saying that it was ready to respond to any mediatory initiative [ see p. 37964 ] . |
| 30 | The match ball , which plummeted from the sky into match judge Fred Trueman 's eager hands , conveyed by a female member of the 4th ( V ) Battalion The Parachute Regiment 's free-fall team , hardly left the ground as Chris Lewis bowled his early sighters after Pakistan had grasped the nettle by batting first . |