Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 2 | Fernando Serra had never truly cared for her and did n't now . |
| 3 | AI has repeatedly expressed concern about the case to the Tunisian Government since October 1991 but the Tunisian authorities have continued to insist that Faisal Barakat had never been arrested and that he died in a road accident . |
| 4 | Since being ‘ sacked ’ ( his own expression ) by President Mitterrand nearly two years ' ago , Michel Rocard had virtually disappeared from the national political scene . |
| 5 | If Harbury had heard the story Pascoe had just related , he might have been confirmed in his belief that it was possible . |
| 6 | In 1343 Archbishop Zouche of York at first resisted the king 's nominee for the deanery of York because Cardinal Talleyrand had already been papally provided ; when the king 's judges found against him , Zouche acquiesced in the royal candidate , rejected the cardinal and endured papal excommunication for the last four years of his life . |
| 7 | LAST time gold 's price was fixed at yesterday afternoon 's level Prince Andrew and Lady Sarah Ferguson had just announced their engagement . |
| 8 | However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 . |
| 9 | When she returned to the camp Travis had already packed up . |
| 10 | This story Ramsey had flatly to deny . |
| 11 | Ben Gurion had strongly favoured Abdallah 's support of partition in 1937 . |
| 12 | A decaying treestump sprouted a collar of saffron fungus of a kind Edward had never seen before . |
| 13 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 14 | For all his reverence for Hugh of Lincoln Richard had always been determined that other bishops should not be like him . |
| 15 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 16 | On this thought , Catherine put her head in , politely excusing herself to Bruce Davidson , and said that Miss Huntley had finally got here . |
| 17 | The first of the tries came after six minutes after Neil Jenkins had already landed a 30-metre penalty . |
| 18 | Miss Honey had never seen her looking so wide-eyed and peculiar before . |
| 19 | Konrad Adenauer had already suggested that West Germany should be allowed the means to defend itself , and that the surest way of winning the population over to a massive commitment to democracy was to give it a stake in the responsibility of defending Western Europe . |
| 20 | Daniele might be running the team for 1976 , but Niki and Clay Regazzoni had very much the upper hand . |
| 21 | Back at the desert base , David Stirling had earlier been busy on the radio , signalling the deputy director of operations on 10 July regarding jeeps . |
| 22 | Their companion cast them exactly the sort of curious glance Isabel had just been anticipating . |
| 23 | It transpired that Peter Carrington and his Foreign Office team of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce had all resigned , and a little later it was announced that Francis Pym was to take over as Foreign Secretary . |
| 24 | Miss Grimes had certainly been glad of the presents but she had not really seemed as destitute and lonely as Ianthe had expected — perhaps secretly even hoped — and she found herself resenting the way she had taken the violets . |
| 25 | That impatient man did not have so long to wait as he had feared , for the very next evening a young townsman arrived at Hoddom from Annan , ten miles distant , with the news that Edward Balliol had indeed returned to his army . |
| 26 | Miss Grimsilk had surely never , ever known a man ‘ quite well ’ unless it was her father . |
| 27 | Mrs Elsie Morgan had travelled on the train on her honeymoon in 1920 ; Lady More recalled some of Sir Jasper 's memories ; Colonel Sykes remembered that , as a boy , the engine driver used to allow him to drive the train when he returned to school at the beginning of term ; and Mrs Lucy Hemmings had regularly tested the milk carried by the train for the Creamery . |
| 28 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 29 | When one thinks about it , when one remembers the way Miss Kenton had repeatedly spoken to me of my father during those early days of her time at Darlington Hall , it is little wonder that the memory of that evening should have stayed with her all of these years . |
| 30 | Richard Branson had long admired the simplicity and effectiveness of the Time Out concept . |