Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnnie Spencer had called upon some of the highest names in the land as character witnesses , including his ex-wife 's own mother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy . |
| 2 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 3 | When Matey had returned on that fateful afternoon , Dr Neil had told her that he had proposed to McAllister , and that she had accepted him . |
| 4 | Laybacking had accounted for more than half his leader falls , and retreat did not bear thinking about . |
| 5 | ‘ They say if Jean had stayed in that night and washed her hair then she would be alive today . ’ |
| 6 | According to a report dated May 21 , Bosnia-Hercegovina had suffered by that date material damage estimated at US$60,000 million-100,000 million ; electricity output was down to 17 per cent of normal levels ; and about four-fifths of the republic 's industrial plant had been destroyed . |
| 7 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 8 | He wondered if this was what Grimma had meant by all the stuff about the frogs in the flower . |
| 9 | Taiwan had lagged behind some of the other economic " tigers " of the region in terms of deregulation . |
| 10 | In its evidence to the Ashby Committee , the WEA had asked for more grant-aid to finance ‘ a considerable increase ’ in the number of full-time staff . |
| 11 | A British submarine on patrol off Crete had come across several Greek caiques or schooners of around 100 tons and known to be carrying German troops , petrol and ammunition . |
| 12 | The eastern influence from Constantinople had merged with that of Italy to give a coherent style . |
| 13 | Rocky had accounted for all his truckers , with the exception of his three buddies , Chuck , Jube and Red . |
| 14 | The 1693 title-page calls attention to ‘ Alterations , Additions , and several new SONGS ’ , which is fair enough : Tonson had gone to some trouble to update it . |
| 15 | The LCC area had declined in population by 0.2 per cent overall , but within that Lewisham had increased by 26 per cent and Wandsworth by 34 per cent ; the population of Middlesex was up by 42 per cent in ten years , Essex and Surrey both by 30 per cent , while the population of Ireland had fallen by another 2 per cent . |
| 16 | Dissatisfaction with and criticism of validation procedures were paralleled by a recognition that the CNAA had succeeded through those procedures in gaining a wide measure of recognition and acceptance for its degrees , and for the institutions where they were offered . |
| 17 | This was the first time a Social Work Department in Scotland had come under such public fire for the same reasons . |
| 18 | An earlier phone call to Springfield from Curtis had seen to that , when the lieutenant had passed on his suspicion that the sect could in fact be a front for a Triad drugs operation . |
| 19 | On the few occasions on which she and Hugh had met since that time , neither of them had ever said a word about that holiday . |
| 20 | He was quite calm , a slight smile on his lips , a kind of self-sufficiency there that Munro had noticed in many airborne soldiers . |
| 21 | Thirty minutes since Dominic had gone inside that room … time enough for a readjustment of ideas , time enough to let resentment flood back to the place it had just left . |
| 22 | Maggie had dealt with that as best she could , taking it quietly and never complaining about the minor injustices which a teacher can inflict — work returned because of untidiness , petty sarcasms , rigorous enforcement of minor school rules . |
| 23 | ‘ I love it here , ’ she said enthusiastically , seeing that Lucenzo had relaxed to some extent and was actually exchanging a few pleasantries with one or two people . |
| 24 | After he had sent off this AC/189 , Gen McCreery took steps to deal with the second signal he had received from Gen Keightley that morning , the 0.413 in which Keightley had reported in more detail on the imminent arrival in Austria of the 300,000 German and 200,000 Croat troops , and had asked for authorization to accept the surrender of these forces as " formed bodies " . |
| 25 | Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again . |
| 26 | By 1808 the unpopularity of Godoy had spread beyond these circles to embrace all classes and the revolution prophesied in 1798 was turning against the court that supported his power : a monarchy which could disgrace itself and by its foreign policy plunge Spain into inflation , dear bread , commercial depression , and the loss of the American market must be limited by a constitution . |
| 27 | Looking past Adam , she saw Fand had stopped by another set of steps winding up into the rock . |
| 28 | In the closing er , pages of the , of the book , Freud draws on a suggestion of Darwin 's , which is that , in the beginning , human beings lived in what Freud calls primal hoard , and the primal hoard social structure is one that Darwin had observed in many mammals . |
| 29 | Sir Ralph Grunte had gone to some trouble over his constituency dinner party , La Noblesse being by no means cheap . |
| 30 | Contrary to making it plain that they were just friends , Simon had indulged in some imaginary kiss-and-tell . |