Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had obviously been well cared for throughout her illness — but then , Shiona had never for one moment doubted that . |
| 2 | Arriving in East Berlin at the height of the country 's most serious political crisis for more than three decades , Mr Gorbachev had earlier in the day , in a brief encounter with enthusiastic East Berliners , spoken of the need ‘ not to panic — that 's the most important thing ’ . |
| 3 | What he had loved about Sylvie had always in part been his inability to pin her down , to capture her . |
| 4 | Travis had enough on his plate just now without being asked to go against his promise to Rosemary to reveal nothing about her . |
| 5 | Under this alliance the Black Prince agreed to give Pedro help against his enemies , and the enemy whom Pedro had chiefly in mind was his illegitimate half-brother Henry of Trastâmara , who was in exile at the French court and was seeking French support for his designs upon the Castilian crown . |
| 6 | The Rio Group 's relationship with Cuba had yet to be resolved . |
| 7 | McCreery had already by the afternoon of that day recognised that the question of what should be done about the Croats posed a particular problem . |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Aycliffe had better post an advertisement to that effect , then , before I am burned at the stake ! ’ |
| 9 | The only part of the globe not mentioned is the Antipodes , for Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander had not yet returned from their voyage with Captain Cook in the Endeavour and plants from Australia , New Zealand and the Pacific Islands had yet to be described . |
| 10 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 11 | Louis had more in common with Carl than with Sam , Jerry or me . |
| 12 | The case against ITV had initially to be made against something that did not yet exist . |
| 13 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 14 | Prime Minister Amadou Cheiffou had earlier in the month held talks in Algiers with his Algerian counterpart , Sid-Ahmed Ghozali . |
| 15 | His position in England had to be secured , and early difficulties in Denmark , Thorkell , Olaf of Norway and Anund Jacob of Sweden had all to be overcome ; thus , not until 1028 did Cnut 's position in Scandinavia rival Swegen 's in 1013 . |
| 16 | Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ . |
| 17 | Gabriel had never in his life contemplated stealing so much as a flea from a dog . |
| 18 | Barth and Brunner had most in common . |
| 19 | France had never at heart been enthusiastic about the EDC , regarding it at a minimum as perhaps a lesser evil : fundamentally , it did not want West German rearmament . |
| 20 | No solution was found : within a few years the European powers were at war again , essentially over the question whether Spain and her colonies were going to pass into the hands of a relation of the King of France or a relation of the Holy Roman Emperor ; in the end they passed into the French line of descent , and in the eighteenth century policy towards France had always to be conducted in the light of the possibility that the French and Spanish government might ally for war . |
| 21 | In their efforts to pinpoint the causes of Japanese aggression and warmongering , the allies ' experts on Japan had long before 1945 reached the conclusion that the structure of land ownership was a fundamental evil . |
| 22 | Yet the electorally oriented ultra-right 's slide in Germany had far from spelt the end of the ‘ new right ’ that emerged throughout western Europe in the past decade . |
| 23 | Employees of the National Semiconductor company arriving for work in Swindon had more on their minds than usual this morning . |
| 24 | Shrewsbury had never until then sensed the bitterness of this recoil , or its galling comedy . |
| 25 | The day scheduled for 8th March had unfortunately to be cancelled due to lack of support . |
| 26 | Pomerania , the Vistula delta and East Prussia had little in the way of natural resources or industrial centres ; worthwhile manufactured goods and raw materials for export were located some 250–500 kilometres inland in areas that lay south of Poznán , Warsaw and Lublin . |
| 27 | An initial US$400 million commitment by the USA had yet to be implemented . |
| 28 | For her part Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , told the UK House of Commons on April 19 after publication of the Kohl-Mitterrand letter that the EC had enough on its plate without getting involved in such " esoteric things " . |
| 29 | Creggan had never in his short life felt so desolate , and try as he did he could not rest and fall asleep . |
| 30 | ‘ Why , Mummy , ’ the child was asking in the bath , tickling her little bottom moving up and down on the sandy deposit at the bottom of the bath until Tony had nowhere for his legs , ‘ when the sky is blue very very blue all over and you look at it is it white ? ’ |