Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authorities such as Rochdale ( Grt Manchester ) and Tyne & Wear had used existing legislation to declare informal IIAs before 1977 . |
| 2 | It was rather as though Attlee or Macmillan had spent post-war autumn holidays at Saratoga Springs while eschewing any contact with the United Nations in New York . |
| 3 | When we arrived home Ben asked Montagu Slater to write the libretto ; he was a playwright and had worked in films , and Ben had written incidental music for a number of his Left Theatre productions , including a very well-XXXX received play called Stay Down Miner , during the thirties . |
| 4 | With the two sections of the National Insurance Act , however , Lloyd George and Churchill had introduced new approaches to two major social problems , which were of lasting importance . |
| 5 | Both Rennenkampf and Samsonov had distinguished military records as cavalry commanders in Manchuria , but they had quarrelled and become bitter enemies . |
| 6 | As a final bonus , he could pass on his expertise in the saddle and both Tamar and Victoria had made rapid progress under his guidance . |
| 7 | Ana had beamed at this and Mitch had looked stunned , especially as Felipe had almost choked over the necessity to say Mitch and extend the same courtesy to both his guests . |
| 8 | By the nineteenth century , however , and especially in the life sciences , the metaphysics that had underpinned the work of Copernicus , Kepler , and Newton had become obstructive . |
| 9 | In June 1940 the land of Louis XIV and Napoleon had experienced swift defeat at the hands of Germany . |
| 10 | Yeltsin and Gorbachev had held separate meetings with military commanders on Dec. 11 , apparently in an attempt to ensure armed forces support for the new Commonwealth . |
| 11 | Paul and Blyth had fallen asleep , and Eric was lying with his hands behind his neck , staring drowsily up at the bright blue . |
| 12 | In a statement , the foreign ministers said political and economic reforms in Poland and Hungary had made considerable progress but added : ‘ The process remains fragile and could be called into question by economic problems . |
| 13 | The Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran ( VIRI ) reported on May 7 that Genscher and Vellayati had discussed bilateral relations and had agreed on the need to maintain Iraq 's territorial integrity . |
| 14 | Flaherty and MacKnobb had produced thin gold and silver and emerald paint with which they had coloured the fine charcoal designs and the end result was really rather good . |
| 15 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 16 | No doubt collaboration with the Greek or Hellenized aristocracies of southern Italy and Sicily had become essential to Rome . |
| 17 | While West Germany and the UK argued in favour of removing most restrictive legislation ( although the UK had appealed for the treatment of certain oil and gas projects as a special case , while West Germany and Spain had made similar appeals for their coal industries ) , France and Italy demanded that they be allowed to retain their rules restricting the access of foreign contractors to certain projects in these fields . |
| 18 | erm Right on the last few minutes with five minutes to go erm the erm Steven was again through and Leach had to go full length to save . |
| 19 | Bulgaria and Moldova had established diplomatic relations in February 1992 . |
| 20 | Iran and Ukraine had established diplomatic relations on Jan. 21 . |
| 21 | Before long Britain and Russia had concluded similar treaties . |
| 22 | To remain near the screens , he and Elaine had to stand close to the strange woman called Lacuna , but even Lacuna seemed less threatening than the jungle of lines and forms that were still proliferating everywhere else in the room . |
| 23 | Normally Rachel slept for a few hours after the feed and Carrie had made sure her husband knew what to do should the baby wake up before she got home . |
| 24 | So , he was in London on some business or other and had simply dropped by to tell her that Jeff and Silvia had got engaged . |
| 25 | Although she and Rune had exchanged verbal descriptions of their respective relations the previous evening , words were no substitute for flesh and blood . |
| 26 | Vietnam and China had normalized diplomatic relations in November 1991 [ see p. 38574 ] . |
| 27 | Ukraine and China had established diplomatic relations on Jan. 4 , 1992 . |
| 28 | Although Vietnam and China had restored normal diplomatic relations in November 1991 , relations remained strained because of a large number of outstanding territorial disputes on land and at sea . |
| 29 | George enjoyed military detail and Maxim had got lucky with the library . |
| 30 | Both Thurmaston and Countesthorpe had become industrial villages in the sense that the majority of the population were employed at a single craft . |