Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun prp] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some trepidation did exist therefore on this occasion but I was fortunate and the MV Brendan had only to negotiate a slight swell on its way past Eriskay to South Uist . |
| 2 | Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife . |
| 3 | As the Kingsway Subway had not yet been deepened , except for single deck cars , the L.C.C . |
| 4 | When she returned to the camp Travis had already packed up . |
| 5 | If Harbury had heard the story Pascoe had just related , he might have been confirmed in his belief that it was possible . |
| 6 | All at once she looked and sounded uncertain and very much the sister Claudia had always loved . |
| 7 | With nearly thirty years in the force Wycliffe had rarely felt so shamed by others . |
| 8 | They had broken their meeting temporarily while the fire was dealt with , but when Fischer returned the Ping Tiao had already gone . |
| 9 | A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ . |
| 10 | However the Earl John had duly turned up at Edinburgh , with one hundred and fifty men and the information that the enemy had passed well to the east of Doune . |
| 11 | The talks were regarded as significant given that on previous visits to the United States , the Dalai Lama had not been granted a meeting with the President . |
| 12 | ‘ I was born here , ’ she said , sensing the question Charlotte had not asked . |
| 13 | All those years ago they had thoughtfully placed it unusually low on the wall to make it easy for the child Maggie had then been to reach . |
| 14 | ‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me . |
| 15 | He was the Maurice Charlotte had always known then , the Maurice she had loved as a brother and trusted as a friend . |
| 16 | Since the outbreak of the war Harriet had rather prided herself that she and Tom had been able , for the most part , to manage their property by themselves and certainly the employment of any domestic help at this juncture seemed a luxury to which she was almost ashamed to admit . |
| 17 | The picture Gay had just painted was a very attractive one . |
| 18 | It had seemed such a marvellous idea at the time , to leave behind her northern home town , the scene of all her unhappy memories , and to apply for the job Caro had just vacated , to take over Caro 's lease . |
| 19 | France , Australia and the United Kingdom had already pledged military contingents . |
| 20 | The Commission stated in limine that in 1983 , before Spain had become a member of the Community , the United Kingdom had not taken appropriate measures to exclude ‘ Anglo-Spanish ’ vessels from its fishing fleet , apparently because those vessels fished mainly in areas to the west of Ireland and mostly for species ( such as hake ) for which there was a much better market in Spain than in the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | The United Kingdom had consistently expressed reservations over intervention , in contrast to the stance of the USA which called for preventive bombardment of Serb positions ; however , on Dec. 20 outgoing US President George Bush and UK Prime Minister John Major agreed in Washington to support a UN resolution enforcing the flight ban . |
| 22 | In a statement Mr Brown the recessions in North America and the United Kingdom had adversely affected Thomson 's businesses over the past three years , particularly newspaper publishing . |
| 23 | The British Government had proposed to the Council of Europe that it should examine a range of questions including that of service of process abroad , which the United Kingdom had hitherto included in its bilateral civil procedure conventions . |
| 24 | The United States had already agreed under the Mutual Defence Aid Programme to provide 70 B-29 bombers ( renamed Washingtons in RAF service ) as a stopgap , and these had started to arrive in March 1950 as part of the NATO build-up in Western Europe before the Korean War began . |
| 25 | The first accused Washington of backing the failed coup ; the second , complaining of the Bush ‘ wimp factor ’ , said the United States had not done enough . |
| 26 | Stern appeals to principle might in time have closed the dollar gap in Britain 's trade with the United States had not cancer removed this economic dictator-by-consent , greatly weakening the Labour government 's authority in 1951 . |
| 27 | The United States had not subscribed to the convention , which had been criticized by US conservative groups for not explicitly protecting the rights of the unborn child . |
| 28 | If the United States had not been able to run a deficit to finance the investment abroad , one response could have been a lower value of the dollar , more competitive exports and a sufficient trade surplus to finance the overseas investment . |
| 29 | Although the resolution authorized a governing body established in Geneva , consisting of all 15 members of the Security Council , to decide how much would be paid into the Fund annually , the United States had reportedly pressed for between 40 per cent and 50 per cent of Iraqi oil revenues to be diverted each year . |
| 30 | The United States had always regarded Latin America as its own " backyard " — an area in which US influence , both political and economic , was undisputed . |