Example sentences of "had [vb pp] the [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lessingham had placed the bottle of claret on the hearth . |
| 2 | Shortly beforehand , Ben Ali had dismissed the secretary of state for national security , Mohamed Larbi Mahjoubi , who ( like Khelil ) had only been appointed in March 1990 . |
| 3 | In 1932 a number of independent student groups , dominated mainly by the Communist Party , had formed the Federation of Student Societies and this group was accepted into the ULF at its Cardiff conference in January 1936 . |
| 4 | The citizens of Pisa by then had recently taken over its government from the archbishop — they had formed the commune of consuls in the early 1080s which was to be a model for innumerable cities in Tuscany and Lombardy and Umbria to follow in the next two generations , the characteristic Italian commune . |
| 5 | He was contemptuous towards the United Nations , critical of the operation of the western alliance , and hostile to supranationalist tendencies in Europe ( even though , for pragmatic reasons , he had honoured the Treaty of Rome and taken France into the Common Market ) . |
| 6 | Prior to this he had painted The Death of Nelson ( Colour Plate XIX ) , again on a big format and based on a reproduction of the central group in Daniel Maclise 's mural of the same subject for the House of Lords . |
| 7 | Elsewhere , any respite that was felt in 409 was short lived ; in 412 another barbarian people , the Visigoths , crossed to Gaul from Italy , where they had sacked the city of Rome in 410 . |
| 8 | It was remembered long after Anselm 's death that he had professed himself afraid to die , and to appear in the sight of God , until he had punished the archbishop of York for infringement of the jurisdiction of Canterbury . |
| 9 | Following the death of James I , Charles I became King of England , in 1625 , and the Duke of Buckingham ( who had been James I 's favourite ) retained his influence over the throne until he was assassinated at Portsmouth , in August 1628 , but not before he had arranged the marriage of Charles I to Henrietta Maria of France . |
| 10 | The same month , a United Nations commission , set up as part of the peace agreement , said that it was d'Aubuisson who had arranged the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 . |
| 11 | It appeared that someone had rammed the back of McCallen 's bike , wrecking the exhaust pipe on the lap before the accident occurred . |
| 12 | The Phoenix Guard , survivors of those warriors who had witnessed the Ascension of Aenarion , waited beyond the flame to drape the newly woven feathered cloak of kingship round his shoulders . |
| 13 | The Archbishop of York , Dr John Habgood , said he had consulted the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr George Carey , now in Sri Lanka . |
| 14 | In the time of Henry VII he had stripped the whole of Fife of oak and fir trees in order to build a huge man-of-war , the Great St Michael , and had given hospitality to the impostor Perkin Warbeck as son of Edward IV and therefore rightful king of England . |
| 15 | It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces . |
| 16 | A team of ballistic missiles experts headed by Douglas Englund , who had earlier been forced to abandon their mission [ see p. 38451 ] , arrived on Oct. 1 following the government 's approval of helicopter flights , and on Oct. 8 Englund announced that UN inspectors had completed the destruction of Iraq 's first " super-gun " [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ; 37471 ; 38361 ] as part of a programme to supervise the demolition of 28 declared Iraqi missile launch sites . |
| 17 | The Supreme Soviet immediately approved the decree , in contrast to its response in October 1991 when it had overturned the state of emergency imposed by the Russian administration in an attempt to subdue a rebellion in Chechnia [ see p. 38582-83 ] . |
| 18 | Cadfael went to meet him , and the porter , who had heard the stir of arrival and come out into the doorway of his lodge , halted on the threshold , and left it to Cadfael as an elder of the house to take charge of the returned prisoner . |
| 19 | Firemen sifting through the ashes had heard the click of bangles . |
| 20 | She broke off , straightening her aching back , for she had heard the sound of wheels . |
| 21 | Miss Honey had heard the sound of Matilda 's feet racing over the gravel and now she straightened up and turned and stepped out of the rose-bed as the child came running up . |
| 22 | They had heard the gist of Cramer 's call and sensed that it was all going to fail , somehow , somewhere . |
| 23 | The desire or need for a fresh start arose either because , as in the United States , some neighbouring communities wished to unite together under a new government ; or because , as in Austria or Hungary or Czechoslovakia after 1918 , communities had been released from an Empire as the result of a war and were now free to govern themselves ; or because , as in France in 1789 or the U.S.S.R. in 1917 , a revolution had made a break with the past and a new form of government on new principles was desired ; or because , as in Germany after 1918 or in France in 1875 or in 1946 , defeat in war had broken the continuity of government and a fresh start was needed after the war . |
| 24 | Even the earliest report of the Borough Surveyor in 1961 had recognized the impact of population shift : |
| 25 | Syrian sources claimed that logistical problems had delayed the release of Erriquez and confirmed that he would soon be freed . |
| 26 | The violence had placed severe strains on the ANC 's relationship with the government over the issue of perceived police partiality towards Inkatha supporters , and had delayed the holding of negotiations on a post-apartheid constitution . |
| 27 | When they heard that multitudes in Samaria had received the word of God , they gladly sent them Peter and John ; and when they heard that in Antioch a great number had believed and turned to the Lord , they at once despatched Barnabas who , when he came and saw , rejoiced ’ ( McGavran 1959:25 ) . |
| 28 | And it says , now when the apostles , who were in Jerusalem heard that Somaria had received the word of God they sent them Peter and John , who came down and prayed for them , that they might receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | In verse fourteen it says , when the apostles in Jerusalem that Somaria had received the word of God and we can not become Christians without God 's word . |
| 30 | Was not their incontestable success the sign that they had received the mandate of heaven ? ’ |