Example sentences of "and [noun prp] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few but important things Preston and William had in common as children was the dominant role of women in their lives . |
| 2 | Strangely enough these stemmed not from any hostility towards Doctor Who the concept all three were thoroughly supportive of the format — only from reservations Wilson and Newman had about the way Verity Lambert and David Whitaker were interpreting their prodigy . |
| 3 | Even though caring meant postponing many of the plans Mary and Jim had for their retirement , when her father died , Mary expressed satisfaction about the time spent caring for him . |
| 4 | Equally significant for the political equilibrium was the rapport which de Gaulle and Adenauer had with each other . |
| 5 | Elizabeth became Dame Bludden , and Hester had at least one other daughter who married George Farrington . |
| 6 | Ricky and Alejandro had to be dragged away from the horses to a lunch laid out on a blue-and-white checked tablecloth under the gum trees . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's not coming , ’ she replied , and she and Sebastian had to almost physically restrain him when she revealed that Rosemary 's husband was with her . |
| 8 | Jessica and Karen had by now brought a picnic from the cottage , and spread it on a blanket for a cloth . |
| 9 | The Holy Roman Emperor , the shah of Persia and the sultan in Constantinople were honoured with large sheets ( the fact that two of the three were non-European illustrates how large a role Asia still played in Russian foreign policy ) , while the kings of Sweden , Poland , England and Denmark had to be content with smaller ones . |
| 10 | Security was tighter here than it had been in the Union building , and Reynolds had to be signed in by Diane before he could be issued with a visitor 's pass . |
| 11 | But the Cold War was fundamentally one of history 's wars of religion , and there were those who realized that the struggle to preserve American Ideals from the ideas of Marx and Lenin had to be conducted on a religious or moral plane . |
| 12 | The drummer lashed out at Tom and caught him a glancing blow on the jaw and Tom had to be held back by Ollie to prevent him retaliating . |
| 13 | A report of June 16 noted that Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Moldova , Kazakhstan , Russia , Turkmenistan , and Uzbekistan had at a meeting in Minsk decided to introduce standardized customs tariffs and categorization of goods for foreign trade [ for customs agreement see p. 38874 ] . |
| 14 | But the Willowfield man was not to be caught and Paddy had to be content with second place with Lyle fading to finish fourth some 15 seconds behind third-placed man Greg Luke ( North Belfast ) . |
| 15 | ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time . |
| 16 | He and Robert had in any case disappeared to drink and play cards ( the express had a gaming saloon ) soon after dinner . |
| 17 | The leaders of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan had on Aug. 20 held negotiations with Kazakh President Nazarbayev on " preserving a single economic space " . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's to be fair shares for all , ’ he had said to Cathbad , and Cathbad had at once said , ‘ Oh dear me , yes of course . |
| 19 | Henry and Louis had in effect entered upon a private treaty of peace , against the wishes of many of their most powerful subjects . |
| 20 | A wish for children was about the only thing Karen and Manuela had in common , apart from their interest in me . |
| 21 | Gen Schwanitz said that national security offices in Cottbus , Dresden , Suhl , and Rostock had to be closed after his staff were attacked by angry crowds . |
| 22 | Whigs and Dissenters had in the past shown themselves prepared to defend the prerogative powers of the Crown , especially in the ecclesiastical sphere , as we have seen with regard to the Declarations of Indulgence in 1672 and 1687 , and Danby 's proposals for limitations on a popish successor in 1677 . |
| 23 | But Cooper 's figures also possess a larger than life boldness due not so much to childlike innocence but to the kind of confidence we imagine Eve and Adam had before the Fall , However , she is not confronting us with an easily gained optimism nor do her disembodied heads , upturned women and mild impassive eyes really evoke a vision of dream . |
| 24 | Blackberry 's reasoning had been first-rate and Bigwig had at least shown which way any sound-hearted rabbit would be likely to lean . |
| 25 | In this instance the foul play was the deliberate knock-down , and Derek had to be sure that Rory would have caught the ball and that no Australian would have legally prevented him scoring a try . |
| 26 | Danny and Teddy had to be evacuated with their school and Bridie had found lodgings as near as possible to where they were going for herself and Monica and Michael . |
| 27 | The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace . |
| 28 | Eire and Italy had to be given special concessions in order to take part , Britain refused to join the ERM , and French economic policies caused five changes in the ‘ central rate ’ in 1981–3 . |
| 29 | ‘ Andy ( Roxburgh ) and myself always thought that Switzerland and Italy had to be considered the favourites to qualify but there is now a dog-eat-dog contest involving three countries for second place , ’ said Brown . |
| 30 | It was clear that he and Talbot had at least one thing in common — the wish that he remain aboard the Ariadne . |