Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [pron] had [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the outstanding legacy of Napoleon 's invasion lay with the bevy of experts he had brought with him who created the " Institute d'Egypte " producing numerous volumes that were to launch Egyptology in the Western academic world and , in time , to remind educated Egyptians of former glories . |
| 2 | It was run by a couple of brothers who had started with one large pub in North London and had built the company , by dint of aggressive take-over tactics and shrewd property dealing , to a sizeable enterprise with a turnover of nearly forty million pounds . |
| 3 | Burton never — to my knowledge — spoke of the early mass of films he had seen with any of that significant affection other actors give to their earliest influences . |
| 4 | Cynthia Merstam watched in silence as the nurse arranged the big bunch of gladioli she had brought with her to the nursing-home . |
| 5 | At Covent Garden , John was joined by Nerina and Heaton from the group of dancers he had worked with at Sadler 's Wells , and he quickly made new friends , including Ray Powell and , especially , Henry Legerton , an Australian who had also just joined the company after dancing for Massine in a play with ballets , based on the novel A Bullet in the Ballet . |
| 6 | Kylie Ann Minogue weighed in at just over 6lbs and was immediately established as the darling not only for the Minogues and their friends , but of mum Carol 's network of relatives who had emigrated with her from Wales to Australia . |
| 7 | However while there is one national study ( Bourner and Hamed 1987 ) which compares the performance of graduates who had entered with non-traditional qualifications with those who were traditionally qualified , this deals only with those obtaining CNM first degrees . |
| 8 | A group of men who had come with Leofnoth found a broached cask and began to drag it out of the rear of the wood , and Siward had three of them hanged . |
| 9 | I took one of the suitcases of clothes I had brought with me and went to Newhaven to get the boat for Dieppe . ’ |
| 10 | They talked freely together about everything , about her sad life , her worries , her bad health , about how foul the world was , and it was more illuminating than plenty of conversations he had had with educated folk . |
| 11 | Barbara , whose previous experiences in that line had been few but enjoyable , remembered with guilty nostalgia the handful of nights she had spent with the managing director at the Royal Albion in Brighton . |