Example sentences of "the king had " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , therefore , the King had turned to Henderson after MacDonald had proffered his resignation , or had sought the views of Labour Privy Counsellors as suggested by Herbert Morrison , he could have been accused of wasting valuable time . |
| 2 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 3 | And , since the King had played some part in securing the formation of the National Government in August , the election would , in a sense , validate the King 's action as well , ‘ Of course you are going to vote , ’ the King said to Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , on 2 October , before the Cabinet had alighted upon the doctor 's mandate formula which made the election possible . |
| 4 | It may be argued that the King had a special responsibility to preserve the agreement , in that , in a country such as Britain without a codified constitution , there is no reference point , no pouvoir neutre , over and above the exigencies of party politics . |
| 5 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 6 | But the opposition parties demanded their return , and the king had to promise that they would not be used except defensively , not even to eject Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 7 | Little justice could be done , especially among the nobility , obsessed as they were by family pride and the need to revenge their kin ; instead , in order to attract them to his service , the king had to remit the penalty of death . |
| 8 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 9 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 10 | On his death the same year , the king had the elder of János 's sons beheaded and the other , Matthias , imprisoned in Prague by the Bohemian ruler , George Podiebrad . |
| 11 | The king had ‘ the attachments and the amercements ’ , but the warden took the oak . |
| 12 | the foresters attach to come before them men who work in their own ground , making ‘ hoes ’ to sow corn , although the King had no demesne there : and they say that they have made waste and purpresture if they do not their will for having peace ; from each man holding land they will have the skin of a lamb or a farthing , and they say that is their fee . |
| 13 | In 1232 the Waverley annalist noted that it was now eight years since the king had confirmed the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest and the bishops had pronounced sentence of excommunication against those who violated them . |
| 14 | But his subjects evidently doubted his good faith , for in June the tax collectors in Staffordshire and Shropshire were resisted on the ground that the king had not carried out his promises regarding the forest . |
| 15 | One was the ‘ ship money ’ controversy , which was the question of whether or not the King had the authority to raise taxes without the permission of parliament . |
| 16 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 17 | In order to house his family the King had divided up many of the larger rooms , and the different floors had been connected by narrow spiral staircases which gave on to gloomy corridors badly lit by oil lamps . |
| 18 | During the 14C , Prague was the largest city north of the Alps and the king had the sole right to the silver from the mines of Bohemia and Silesia which John of Bohemia had acquired in 1331 . |
| 19 | The King had been so glum on his arrival and then , suddenly , almost out of character even for him , his mood had changed to one of enjoyment , drinking deeply , boasting that he would be with the Queen before the night was out , then off riding into that terrible storm to his death on the top of Kinghorn Cliff . |
| 20 | No one at the banquet could possibly have crossed the Firth of Forth in such weather with such speed and he knew from his own spies that only the King had crossed the Forth that night . |
| 21 | Deep in his heart Wishart believed the King had been murdered but he did not know how , or why , or by whom . |
| 22 | ‘ The King had been a widower for ten years , ’ he continued . |
| 23 | The King had convened a special meeting of the Council to discuss the imprisonment of a Galloway baron in England . |
| 24 | If he played strictly according to the rules , the king had to combine some of the qualities of general , prize fighter , judge and monk . |
| 25 | The King had gone back to Nicosia , taking his whole Council with him . |
| 26 | The King had forbidden Nicholas to attack , and when defied , had found a method of saving him . |
| 27 | He broke off and stepped back , for the King had broken free of his friends , and was running alone down the strand to the messenger . |
| 28 | Everywhere on their journey through France they found the people mad with celebration , for the king had agreed to observe the new constitution : |
| 29 | The king had tried to flee the country in June 1791 , and had been ignominiously brought back under guard . |
| 30 | With the outbreak of hostilities , it had been too strategically placed for alien ownership , and the king had reclaimed it as a royal demesne . |