Example sentences of "[art] shah had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Shah had made a showplace of his country with his colossal purchasing of weapons , and look what it had all come to : ‘ If you drive from Shiraz to Isfahan even today you 'll see hundreds of helicopters parked off to the right of the highway . |
| 2 | The Shah had actually asked his twin sister , Princess Ashraf , to leave the country — she was too much the symbol of the royal family excesses . |
| 3 | Members of the National Front , the opposition the Shah had crushed in the fifties and ignored ever since , leftists , rightists , monarchists , republicans , dentists , doctors , lawyers — almost anyone it seems could finally get into see His Imperial Majesty . |
| 4 | The Shah had sometimes shown disdain for many such people . |
| 5 | Everyone 's solution was subjective , he thought , based on the resentments and jealousies festered in the long , bitter years of internal exile that the Shah had imposed on all those who would not recognize his sole and divinely inspired leadership of Iran . |
| 6 | A few weeks before he left Iran , the Shah had asked one of the most respected members of the opposition that he had crushed in the fifties to try to form a government . |
| 7 | Until only months before , the Shah had genuinely believed that he was beloved by the Iranian people . |
| 8 | Only a year ago the Shah had seemed to himself and to his allies to be utterly secure . |
| 9 | And then the Shah had allowed the publication of a scurrilous attack on his clerical enemy , Ayatollah Khomeini . |
| 10 | A few days after the massacre , the Shah had an opportunity to show himself as a compassionate leader after an earthquake destroyed the town of Tabas and killed about twenty thousand people . |
| 11 | He had met the Shah year before and the Shah had lectured him imperiously on the need for law and order in affairs of state . |
| 12 | " You in the United States do n't understand how a country should be run , " the Shah had declared . |
| 13 | All through his life , the Shah had depended on the counsel of foreigners . |
| 14 | The Shah had at court a tall , slim , well-dressed man , a former ambassador to Washington , Vienna and Bonn . |
| 15 | All through his life the Shah had been obsessed by the what other nations controlled or manipulated Iran , particularly the British , the Russians and the Americans . |
| 16 | None the less , faced with the greatest crises of his reign , and unable to sift through the unfathomable views , and motives of his countrymen , the Shah had turned increasingly to foreign advisers . |
| 17 | On one occasion in the early autumn , the Shah had turned on Sullivan , recited almost every incident of unrest and declared that it was all so sophisticated that it must be the result of foreign intrigue against him . |
| 18 | In some of their talk the Shah had seemed drained by events . |
| 19 | But he remembered that the Shah had a house in Switzerland . |
| 20 | The Shah had repeatedly been to American during the last thirty years. ; he had been welcomed with full honours as not only an important chief of state by also a vital ally by every single president since Harry Truman . |
| 21 | Instead of flying straight to the United States , the Shah had decided at the last minute to accept an invitation from Anwar Sadat of Egypt to pause briefly in Aswan . |
| 22 | It had been literally years once the Shah had drive men in the streets of Teheran . |
| 23 | The Shah had taken a leading role in this process . |
| 24 | The Shah had imagined it as a modern version of the Congress of Vienna of 1815 , where the rulers of the world could meet and discuss matters of great import . |
| 25 | This time the dish was repeated for the guests and the Shah had an artichoke . |
| 26 | At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime . |
| 27 | One of Russians means of exerting its power was the Iranian cossack Brigade , which the Shah had founded after a visit to Russia and which had Russian officers . |
| 28 | In his place , the Shah had very little idea of what was happening , Shorn of more and more of his powers but Mossadeq , who tended to ignore him , the Shah retreated into alternating bouts of gloom and high spirits which involved playing practical jokes on guests . |
| 29 | Sadat and the Shah had become friends the previous year , after first quarrelling at an Islamic summit in Rabat , about the measures needed to protect an Islamic shrines under Israeli occupation . |
| 30 | Since the mid-seventies the Shah had extended substantial financial aid to Egypt . |