Example sentences of "had [verb] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , China had protested at the Dalai Lama 's visit to Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia . |
| 2 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 3 | For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention . |
| 4 | Mona had recovered from whatever embarrassment she had felt at the Eliot knife becoming common knowledge , and said crisply : ‘ I ca n't believe that 's true about Pascoe , Alex . ’ |
| 5 | Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unable or unwilling to deliver what the Americans thought he had promised at the Houston summit it last July — political muscle to make progress on farm-reform at the GATT talks . |
| 6 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |
| 7 | Heads of state and government of the 12 member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) met in Luxembourg on June 28-29 to take stock of progress in the negotiations on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and European political union ( EPU ) which had opened at the Rome summit in December 1990 [ see pp. 37905-06 ] . |
| 8 | Bosnia-Hercegovina 's ethnic leaders had agreed at the April 23 round of EC peace talks to continue their March 18 accord [ see p. 38832 ] to negotiate a new constitution . |
| 9 | In addition , he had called at the Fleming house where he had got no reply to his bell-ringing . |
| 10 | Oliver was not there and she supposed he , Cobalt and Tim had stayed at the Jonquil . |
| 11 | We had stayed at the Soleil d'Or , a little hotel as warm-hearted as its name . |
| 12 | THE FIRST thing I had to do at the NME was draw a cucumber . |
| 13 | The company , when Mr. O'Brien first became associated with it , had banked at the Watford branch of Barclays Bank . |
| 14 | Only two of the party that had arrived at The Randolph , some fifty hours earlier , were no longer in their original seats — the seats immediately behind Mrs Roscoe . |
| 15 | By the time the Scotland team had arrived at the Sierras hotel in Alta Gracia the rot had set in . |
| 16 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 17 | His chief financial adviser , Simon Scher , a young Englishman who , after Cambridge , had trained at the Harvard Business School , was urging him to go public . |
| 18 | According to Le Monde of April 19 some Dev Sol fighters had trained at the PKK camp in the Bekaa [ see also p. 38833 ] . |
| 19 | He had served at the Khyber Pass and said he recognised the place at once . ’ |
| 20 | The skins taunted the police with what had happened at the Brixton riots a few days previously . |
| 21 | Mr Walker sought advice from a colleague who , some years earlier , had worked at the Chester Beatty in preparation from her doctorate . |
| 22 | For five years she had worked at the Ashmolean before moving across the street to The Randolph ; and for the latter part of that time she had actually worked for Dr Kemp , amongst others . |
| 23 | Maureen , 44 — who had worked at the Gateshead mill for ten years — declared : ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had put my name to it . |
| 24 | Courtney had worked at the Whipps Cross and Charing Cross hospitals in England , at Dublin 's University College hospital , in Saudi Arabia and at the Royal Free hospital and medical school , where he was researching a project on caesarian sections . |
| 25 | Fourth , the Roman choreographer Pietro Sodi had worked at the Comédie ltalienne from around 1746 , where his brother Charles ( C.1715–88 ) was violinist and composer . |
| 26 | Mr. Tom Andrews , whom I remember as a very old man , had worked at The White Hart Hotel and even in his old age was in demand if a ham had to be sliced for a wedding or similar function . |
| 27 | For the first two minutes Charlie defended himself well , using the ropes and the corner as he ducked and dived , remembering every skill he had learned at the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 28 | In a statement quoted by Syrian Arab Republic Radio Arafat praised the pan-Arab position which Syria had expressed at the Madrid conference . |
| 29 | Afterwards we all said that it was good for the game that the transplant of power which had begun at the Sydney Football Stadium in our bi-centennial year had taken so robustly . |
| 30 | Byelarus and Ukraine had stated at the Dec. 21 meeting that they wished to sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |