Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] had [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chesney Wold is supposedly based upon Rockingham Castle ( Fig. 12a ) , a mainly Elizabethan house within its Norman walls , where Dickens had spent some pleasant periods of his life when staying with his friends , the Watsons . |
| 2 | And , avoiding the area , now shiny with disinfectant , where Carter had fallen most prisoners finished their lunch . |
| 3 | Cocoa production had largely shifted from the coastal area , where disease had destroyed many cocoa trees , into Ashanti . |
| 4 | Melodrama , perched on the uneasy edge between tragedy and the horribly grotesque , points also to the music hall , where Eliot had found those last vestiges of English myth . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , although Parliament had done little to exercise its authority over them during the Tudor period , customs duties were not fully under the Crown 's control . |
| 6 | Once Shamir had rejected this invitation , Peres entered into intensive negotiations in an attempt to achieve a majority . |
| 7 | Although Wordsworth had produced more poems than Coleridge for their joint volume , Lyrical Ballads , honour was satisfied by giving the long Ancient Mariner — or Ancyent Marinere as it was originally spelt — pride of place . |
| 8 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 9 | Her mother came from a high-born Portuguese family , so Sara had learnt that language from the cradle ; and the devoted services of the family chaplain had provided her with considerable ability in French and Latin as well . |
| 10 | Although Bush had imposed some sanctions immediately following the massacre [ see pp. 36722 ; 36815 ] , he had subsequently faced a great deal of congressional criticism for his " soft " China policy [ see p. 37341 ] . |
| 11 | Although Iraq had paid some $1,300 million ( or roughly one-half ) of the money for the ships , their delivery had been blocked by the imposition in 1986 of an Italian embargo on lethal weaponry to Iran and Iraq . |
| 12 | Although Woodie had given this explanation pretty often , he was surprised to have to make it to a child of six . |
| 13 | Over half of the Dwarf force had been slain and although Skarsnik had lost many good warriors they were losses he could easily afford . |
| 14 | Although Ceausescu had paid most of the country 's $11,000,000 million foreign debt during the 1980s , depriving the Romanians of food for the sake of export revenues , it was expected that Romania would need to raise foreign loans before the end of the year . |
| 15 | I keep wondering if Kemp had found some other floozie — and Sheila Williams found out about it . ’ |
| 16 | I recorded one and he took it home and if Jim had recorded another episode on it I do n't remembering him doing it . |
| 17 | If Hereford had made more of their chances they could have hit the headlines |
| 18 | She glanced up , apparently casually , to see if Nenna had taken this too hard . |
| 19 | But er , if Freud had done any of that , you 'd never hear the end of it . |
| 20 | If Kegan had waited another few minutes I could have got it settled . |
| 21 | If Labour had eliminated these plans from its programme and continued to emphasise John Smith 's prudence ( as opposed to his curious ideas about minimum wages and confiscatory ‘ social justice ’ ) , then they would have swung more London and Midlands marginals their way . |
| 22 | ‘ I know that if Ken had had any kind of sexual relationship it would n't have been with anyone he knew well . |
| 23 | Agatha giggled as if Corbett had posed some riddle . |
| 24 | Wishart stared at Corbett and laughed as if Corbett had told some pleasantry . |
| 25 | I wondered if David had got this evening to catch a bottle of wine |
| 26 | The Doctor waited until Bernice had abandoned all hope of recalling her long-forgotten theoretical mathematics . |
| 27 | Undoubtedly British official statistics would have advanced more rapidly , particularly in the use of sampling techniques , if Bowley had had more to do with them . " |
| 28 | If England had held any one of the three catches they put down they would have won , since the three top-scoring West Indies batsmen all had a ‘ life ’ . |
| 29 | The junctures of my life seemed to be marked off monotonously by men at desks , as if Fate had adopted this as a regulation traffic-signal meaning " Sharp turning " . |
| 30 | If Pecham had harboured any idea of renewing the struggle when his second provincial council met at Lambeth in 1281 , it was forestalled by a royal writ of prohibition of the general kind which simply barred some action . |