Example sentences of "had [verb] in the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff at the BICC wiring division headquarters on Merseyside crossed their divide when Riley recommended casual clothing for a discussion day he had arranged in the Lune Valley . |
| 2 | Staff at the BICC wiring division headquarters on Merseyside crossed their divide when Riley recommended casual clothing for a discussion day he had arranged in the Lune Valley . |
| 3 | Bao Tong , a senior aide of deposed Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) general secretary Zhao Ziyang , was tried and sentenced on July 21 for his role in the pro-democracy movement which had culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |
| 4 | He was not just antithetical to the way national politics had developed in the United States in the 1970s , he was totally out of sympathy with the very foundations of the political system . |
| 5 | The underground-as it had developed in the United States and Britain — was unknown . |
| 6 | When he was in the bath his head just filled with water ’ and ‘ I am sorry , I ca n't hear you my head 's full of water ! ’ — IAN McGEECHAN ( Scotland manager ) and DODDIE WEIR ( Scotland lock ) on the eardrum Weir had perforated in the Calcutta Cup match . |
| 7 | Ulster champion jockey Paddy Graffin was taken to hospital with an injured hand after Late Stretch had fallen in the Mares Race , but he returned in time to ride Glenmavis in the final race . |
| 8 | The resistance of Ulster was also linked to its business roots with such slogans as " Industrial Ulster is united " or " They mean business " , and Law made the same point when he described in Norwich a recent meeting that he had addressed in the Ulster Hall : |
| 9 | Duhalde had tendered his resignation with effect from Dec. 11 , when he was to be sworn in as Governor of the province of Buenos Aires , a post which he had won in the Sept. 8 elections [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 10 | US carriers were permitted to widen the already liberal rights they had enjoyed in the Netherlands for several years . |
| 11 | Since German unification in October 1990 , 18 east German delegates had sat in the EP [ see p. 37718 ] . |
| 12 | Duff had sat in the Belfast Corporation since 1946 as an official Unionist but he was now backed by Ulster Protestant Action as a protest against Maginess , the Attorney-General at the time of the Maura Lyons case . |
| 13 | It was Nicholson , the young clergyman he had met in the Lorton Valley , shy , the unsuccessful wooer of Miss Skelton , poorly paid , but on several occasions a most useful conversational refuge for the restless Colonel . |
| 14 | By creating a Viceroyalty , the tsar went beyond the policy of devolution which had operated in the Caucasus under Ermolov . |
| 15 | In fact Ruth thought , his features were very like those of a man in the reproduction of an Italian painting which had hung in the Longhills ’ drawing room . |
| 16 | They crashed through their set as if they were in a competition to see who could get through the most songs in the shortest time , sounding like an unrehearsed version of the group Charlie and I had seen in the Nashville . |
| 17 | He explained away the list of things that Waddell had seen in the Ross 's house as having been published at the trial or in the newspapers , which was not the case . |
| 18 | Women burdened with loads attracted him , as they had done in the Borinage , pushing wheelbarrows , sweeping , and fetching coal . |
| 19 | The conflict with the second director derived from his wanting Dustin to play the role of Valentine Brose just as David Warner had done in the London production . |
| 20 | Our panel gave more weight to unemployment throughout the final campaign than they had done in the Pre-Campaign wave . |
| 21 | In view of the circumstances of his team 's downfall , perhaps the most ironic touch about the final was that Chapman had said in the Sunday Express a week before the game : ‘ I know nothing of the art of clairvoyance , but I should feel happier if someone would foretell me the vital incident which is almost sure to decide the match . |
| 22 | Adding these to the other elements of the claim and demands for extra London weighting , Mr Clarke had said in the Commons that ambulance workers were looking for ‘ rather a lot more money ’ . |
| 23 | Labour MP Don Dixon had said in the Commons on Tuesday that he believed Mr Fallon could have abused Parliament 's pre-paid mailing facilities . |
| 24 | By 1952 the contacts Ramsey had made in the US led to her being awarded a Smith-Mundt scholarship and she toured the country speaking as an authority on what was then pioneering work being done in the UK . |
| 25 | She was buried under the pavilion she had built in the Roshanara Gardens . |
| 26 | He told a press conference that negotiations had entered a difficult phase and that he therefore wanted to obtain a new mandate from his people to defend the principles he had upheld in the New York talks . |
| 27 | The ultimate clue to Ecgfrith 's regnal chronology , however , is the documentary report of the council of Hatfield which Bede includes in the Ecclesiastical History ( IV , 17 ) and which demonstrates , by reference to Ecgfrith in his tenth year on 17 September in a year which can only be 680 ( see below , p.113 ) , that Ecgfrith certainly succeeded no earlier than 17 September 670 — which introduces an even longer interregnum if Oswiu had died in the February of that year and makes his death in February 671 more likely still . |
| 28 | After joining the AIB in July 1955 and doing my first investigation on an Auster that had ditched in the Bristol Channel in August of that year , I was sent out to Tripoli , Libya in September 1955 to assist Penny Garnons-Williams ( known to many in the aviation industry as Garney Bill ) to investigate an accident to a BOAC Argonaut that had crashed at Castel Benito in a sand storm . |
| 29 | Isidora had drowned in the Nile in the second century AD . |
| 30 | Not content with just the interminable Benson and Hedges World Series Cup , the players also had to fit in the Benson and Hedges Challenge between the fourth and fifth Tests , a jamboree dreamed up to latch on to the sporting frenzy which the TV and marketing people had decreed would seize the nation when the America 's Cup yacht races were staged off Fremantle . |