Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , not enough of a clue as to whether these were the same depredations Johnson had deplored : Elgin had suffered marauders more than once . |
| 2 | But then Ferdinando made sense of another rumour , that Napoleon had reneged , that he had made peace with the Austrians at Villafranca the day before and all was now over for Italian hopes . |
| 3 | The citadel of Bayonne , on the right or northern bank of the Adour , stood out against the English for three months , by which time Napoleon had abdicated and the war was over . |
| 4 | It was based on the principle of ‘ a nation in arms ’ , much as Napoleon had employed a levee en masse . |
| 5 | The author , himself a captain of artillery in the Regiment of the Canton of Berne , did not , of course , fail to point out that Napoleon had begun his career as an artillery man , a fact which provided a point of departure for comment on the Emperor 's ideas in general . |
| 6 | Paris gave the immediate illusion of spaciousness and grandeur ; the swelling pride of Louix XIV and Napoleon had expressed itself in truly monumental architecture . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 9 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 10 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In June 1940 the land of Louis XIV and Napoleon had experienced swift defeat at the hands of Germany . |
| 14 | Napoleon had fought one of his early battles at Toulon , but Rose-Marie had n't realised this until Catriona pointed it out . |
| 15 | Mrs and Mrs Singh had received a letter offering Balbinder a place at Cedars . |
| 16 | Singh had served as Prime Minister since early December 1989 . |
| 17 | On one occasion Mrs Singh had asked me to go with her to visit one of the boy 's teachers . |
| 18 | It also provided an opportunity for Devi Lal , whom Singh had dismissed as his deputy in August , to rally opposition to the government [ see pp. 37710-11 ; 37774-75 ] . |
| 19 | She and Mr Singh had visited the school for a Christmas event and had been pleased to hear that Balbinder was being moved into the second class . |
| 20 | Earlier on , in the playground , as Balbinder had gradually gained confidence and begun to explore and use things Mrs Singh had said , wistfully , ‘ I do hope Balbinder learn so quickly he will soon go back to his school . ’ |
| 21 | The right-wing Hindu-backed Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) formed the state government in Uttar Pradesh , and BJP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had invited an all-party delegation to visit the site after coming under criticism from nearly all political parties for allegedly violating court orders regarding the disputed plot . |
| 22 | Mrs Singh had seemed mystified by the advice , as she believed the school should be responsible for progress in English and mathematics and shrugged helplessly when I suggested that parents also had an important role . |
| 23 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 24 | Following the accident , the government of the then Prime Minister V. P. Singh had grounded India 's remaining 18 Airbuses , on the grounds of the alleged safety risk . |
| 25 | V. P. Singh had launched an inquiry into the HDW submarine deal on April 9 , 1987 , three days before he resigned as Defence Minister in the Gandhi government [ see pp. 35381-82 ] . |
| 26 | ‘ If Allah had intended us to fly , he would have given us wings , not arms , ’ the policeman had replied . |
| 27 | The EPA had ruled that any plant operator wishing to do so must first notify the public , allowing them an opportunity to challenge the change . |
| 28 | Earlier , the EPA had issued regulations allowing public utilities up to 21 years to remove dangerous levels of lead from drinking water . |
| 29 | But it seemed polite to visit the Freitas family , especially after Lina had come to Monte Samana on a fruitless errand . |
| 30 | Earlier in 1991 BMS had suspended sales of polyurethane covered breast implants until the FDA received safety data . |