Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night 's crucial Maastricht vote following the debate in the House of Commons meant Mr Gummer had to pull out of the Welsh farming conference organised by the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society , the Welsh Agricultural College and Midland Bank . |
| 2 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 3 | We 'd arrived and Mr Tuckett had driven off and within minutes I could be seen , from the street , through the open curtains , upstairs in a bedroom . |
| 4 | Mr Friel had staggered back towards his friend 's house and they had heard him shouting for help . |
| 5 | Mr Friel had become so frightened that he took refuge in a friend 's house nearby until he thought the coast was clear at midnight . |
| 6 | Mr McWhirter had shuffled in , looking like a morose vagrant , some ten minutes late , and had taken up a position in front of the fire . |
| 7 | But by the end of last year Mr Yanagitani had lost so much money that he was unable to honour the investment guarantees he had given to his clients . |
| 8 | The Rose-Noelle was well-equipped as Mr Glennie had set off to start a new life cruising the South Pacific . |
| 9 | The driver of one of the vehicles told police afterwards that he had seen Mr Adams , who lived in Witney , ahead of him , but Mr Reid said Clarke clearly failed to notice him , even though Mr Adams had switched on both his front and rear bicycle lights . |
| 10 | But ANC officials said that after a meeting with police , Mr Mandela had decided not to attend the funeral because of increased tension in the Table Mountain district , outside Pietermaritzburg . |
| 11 | In a statement to police Mr Burn had explained how he had tried to calm Mr Pollard down . |
| 12 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |
| 13 | He denied any guns had been involved in the raid although Mr Beaton had said earlier in the trial he had been told he would be shot if he tried anything stupid . |
| 14 | Mr Bresslaw had collapsed once before , in October last year , and on that occasion he had to be carried on a stretcher out of a show business dinner . |
| 15 | Mr Knightley had arrived home in grand — if not entirely dignified — style , and luckily he was just in time to decide whether or not the quarry project should go ahead . |
| 16 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 17 | Lord Justice Watkins , sitting with Mr Justice Garland , also rejected criticism made by Mr Justice Henry at an earlier hearing that Mr Saunders had set up a trust fund to render himself less likely to face litigation and reduce his ability to pay legal costs . |
| 18 | But many people wondered why Mr Peairs had used quite so powerful a weapon , and why he had not simply fired it into the air ; or why , living as he did in a relatively safe middle-class suburb , he had been so scared . |
| 19 | Mr Crumwallis had said earlier on that he might . |
| 20 | Then Mr Crumwallis had walked in . |
| 21 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |
| 22 | The court was told Mr McNally had consumed more than three times the limit for driving . |
| 23 | And he added Mr Dobson had returned just last week from a working trip to Turkey . |
| 24 | On the evidence before him Mr Patten had decided not to take the listed building enforcement action needed . |
| 25 | Gin , however , whether the Dutch variety or no , was beginning to have distressing results on the ladies in particular , who nevertheless persisted in their belief that it was all right because Mr Dickens had said so . |
| 26 | The money , £108,000 , would 've been paid out from a mortgage protection policy Stroud and Mr Stokle had taken out when they bought a bungalow together . |
| 27 | A week after he first lobbed Scuds into Tel Aviv , Mr Hussein had managed only to kill three elderly women . |
| 28 | ‘ Obviously you do not have to answer at this stage if you would prefer not to , but I wondered if Mr Riddle had taken out any substantial life insurance or endowment policies ? ’ |
| 29 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
| 30 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |