Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , the United States administration had vastly over-reacted to Nkrumah 's book Neo-Colonialism : The last stage of imperialism ( 1965 ) , though the views he advanced were becoming the commonplace of Third World writing . |
| 2 | Although Michael Ainslie , president and chief operating officer said in April that the Acquavella deal had now paid for itself , there are rumours that payments for sales have slowed , and new sales are difficult . |
| 3 | Tad Szulc discusses the problem of the Cuban government 's trials of Batista ’ war criminals ' by revolutionary justice : ’ … the issue — in the eyes of Fidel Castro and masses of Cubans — was that while the United States government had never protested against the killing and torture of thousands of the old regime 's opponents by the Batista police and soldiers ( and public opinion took hardly any notice ) , now that the victorious revolutionaries were punishing their opponents with executions and lengthy prison sentences Americans were indignant [ about the lack of Anglo-Saxon judicial guarantees ] ' ( 1986 , pp. 385–6 ) . |
| 4 | And of course the 1964 diary and the Abbotsfield dream had already stirred up Peter 's memories , like sticks stirring the bottom of a muddy pond . |
| 5 | She had observed with a quiet pleasure how the strident Roscoe woman had markedly cooled towards her former partner after his refusal ( and that of most of the others ) to sign her petulant letter of complaint concerning Sheila Williams . |
| 6 | Although the Mulroney government had generally succeeded in maintaining a tight rein on federal spending , the country 's budget deficit had remained stubbornly high at around Can . |
| 7 | Minister of Education and Culture Vladimir Pavletic had also resigned on April 10 , following criticism from parliamentary deputies over schoolbooks which continued to name the mother country as Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | Co-chairman John Roberts said Colwyn Bay had provisionally agreed to the ground sharing plan subject to permission being given by Colwyn Borough Council . |
| 9 | They had consistently opposed relatives ' visits ( which the UK government had finally permitted in March 1991 — see p. 38096 ) to the graves of Argentinian soldiers killed in the 1982 Falklands War . |
| 10 | When I asked him once whether his FI career had really mattered to him that much , he answered characteristically that of course it had , but that he enjoyed racing in any form , and of all the forms of racing he enjoyed winning best : ‘ I win more over here , ’ he said , adding with a characteristic grin , ‘ and it 's easier . ’ |
| 11 | The era of the 1963 Robbins Report had truly come to an end . |
| 12 | Shekhar had granted the USA refuelling rights in late 1990 and the US administration had reportedly responded by helping to facilitate an IMF loan to India [ see below ] . |
| 13 | ILP membership had already dropped by one third in the past four years , and three months after disaffiliation the NAC estimated a loss of 10 per cent of the remaining branches in protest . |
| 14 | Nottingham Forest had almost despaired of breaking down Everton 's rebuilt defence in an entertaining tie at the City Ground when Lee Chapman won the match seven minutes from the end . |
| 15 | Nottingham Forest had almost despaired of breaking down Everton 's rebuilt defence when Lee Chapman won an entertaining fourth-round tie at the City Ground with a smartly taken goal seven minutes from the end . |
| 16 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 17 | This scheme was shrewd , but for the fact that the ‘ crumbling ’ in England came too late , when much SNP support had already drifted to Labour in expectation of a hung parliament , and was n't registered at all in the polls . |
| 18 | Perhaps the Norwich striker had not adjusted to the importance of the occasion , but Norman was able to make a crucial save . |
| 19 | The PR lady had thankfully disappeared by the time we reached the Wigmore Street entrance to St Christopher 's Place , which was probably just as well . |
| 20 | The west Belfast woman had even appeared in a Northern Ireland Office ‘ Crack Crime ’ television and billboard advertising campaign . |