Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year earlier , at Erfurt , Napoleon had agreed with the tsar to accept the right of Russia to Wallachia and Moldavia , but to leave Serbia within the Ottoman empire . |
| 2 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 3 | Then , just as d'Alembord was about to sell his commission and retire to one of his prospective father-in-law 's farms , Napoleon had returned to France . |
| 4 | The impasse had resulted in California having no budget for 65 days , during which time the state 's authorities had been forced to issue more than $3,000 million-worth of " warrants " ( IOUs ) in order to meet payroll and other contractual obligations . |
| 5 | Singh had served as Prime Minister since early December 1989 . |
| 6 | But it seemed polite to visit the Freitas family , especially after Lina had come to Monte Samana on a fruitless errand . |
| 7 | By the final session , the average frequency of waking had fallen to once or twice a week and once or twice a night ; settling time had decreased . |
| 8 | We drove out of the city on the now four-laned highway , passing the airport and driving over the bridge where I silently saluted the ancient tower standing in the tide-water below , the place where the Sheikha had fallen from her camel . |
| 9 | By the way Batty was merely a promising youngster when Wilko arrived , and I do n't think Speed had played for the first team . |
| 10 | By Lesson 27 the speed had dropped to 87rpm , the speed I had to use to get the voice to sound the same as Lesson 1 . |
| 11 | The mistrust which their recent sufferings had engendered against all Turks made it impossible for the Serbs to collaborate with the more reasonable spahis , who were themselves the victims of the janissaries , whose leaders were known as dayis . |
| 12 | A lively lad in his youth , Thomas Borrow had been a champion wrestler in his time , but his fondness for the martial arts had led to his enforced banishment from the county . |
| 13 | Another early contributor was Ed Sanders , whose Fuck You — A Magazine of the Arts had begun from a ‘ secret location ’ in New York 's lower east side in 1962 . |
| 14 | Mr Thrale had written to Johnson care of Boswell at Aberdeen ; probably a refreshing fact to Sam who in his final illness observed to his servant , ‘ An odd thought strikes me — we shall receive no letters in the grave . ’ |
| 15 | Twenty minutes later the Tucker , Higgs and Kelly Cessna glided off the runway at Grand Bahama Island and tip-tilted one hundred and six miles north to the Abacos , cays where Sutherlands had dwelt since 1789 . |
| 16 | Lloyd won his fourth toss and , after Greenidge had gone for a duck , Richards shared in three century stands . |
| 17 | Collinson was gunned down after ordering bulldozers to demolish the bungalow which Dryden had built without planning permission . |
| 18 | Ron 's glance had fallen upon the huge mound of nettle roots and bramble stems that was the product of Edward 's afternoon . |
| 19 | The deliberate mockery had faded from his eyes , and the raw darkness she saw there made her stomach clench in anguish . |
| 20 | As he finished tying the cravat into an acceptable knot he saw that one of the cheese-knives had stuck to the table linen by virtue of the butter that had been left on it . |
| 21 | When they heard Plymouth had lost to Blackburn the celebrations began . |
| 22 | However , this walrus had reckoned without the courage and determination of a certain Tiki , also a kiwi , who vows to rescue his like-feathered friends . |
| 23 | It would have gone on to say , , that cases of food poisoning had risen by fifty percent , and then Mr Chadwick saying , ‘ It 's likely we 're receiving more notifications . ’ |
| 24 | Such an association had led in May 1986 to the removal of Stalker as head of a controversial inquiry team into allegations of a " shoot-to-kill " policy by the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) [ see pp. 36239-40 ] . |
| 25 | Colchester Hackney Carriage Association had pleaded with the borough council to relent after they were told cabbies would face five or six per cent increases on licence charges this year . |
| 26 | At the time of Ayliffe 's retirement the Association had grown to sixty-five branches . |
| 27 | Whatever the book 's faults might be , it was seen to be an original contribution of power , and that a new force in Christian thinking had appeared among the Churches in England . |
| 28 | Now , here again , in the past , group selectionist thinking had tended to the view that all you need for sex if it 's for the benefit of the species is a regular male , a regular female , doing the regular thing and er everything will be alright . |
| 29 | Johnnie Spencer had called upon some of the highest names in the land as character witnesses , including his ex-wife 's own mother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy . |
| 30 | Earl Spencer had collapsed in the courtyard at Althorp suffering from a massive cerebral haemorrhage and had been rushed to Northampton General Hospital . |