Example sentences of "duke of [noun prp] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His preparations for carrying out work at Arundel Castle , Sussex — a project curtailed by his death — were reported by a correspondent of the antiquary Richard Gough [ q.v. ] in 1787 : ‘ At Greystoke Castle I found Mr. Hiorne the gothic architect , whom the Duke of Norfolk had invited there to consult with relative to his intended repairs at Arundel Castle ; and we made a party to see Alnwick Castle , etc. in Northumberland , for Mr. Hiorne 's information . ’ |
| 2 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 3 | The Duke of Wellington had appeared with his staff . |
| 4 | 11.57 / 3 Now some of the trees he planted are coming to the end of their natural life and the present Duke of Marlborough has begun a restoration programme to replace them and keep the landscape gardens they were originally laid-out . |
| 5 | THE super-rich Duke of Northumberland has banned charity tea ladies from his castle — because he has opened his own cafe . |
| 6 | He told her in no uncertain terms that his father , the Duke of Edinburgh had agreed that if , after five years , his marriage was not working he could go back to his bachelor habits . |
| 7 | Nor could the Reverend Baron but he left immediately he heard in May that the Grand Duke of Tuscany had abdicated : that , he vowed , was the clearest possible indication of open war and he wanted to be away . |
| 8 | Likewise Granton where the Duke of Buccleuch had constructed the harbour for his own needs in the mid 19th century . |
| 9 | He had been much taken with a small low-growing Kalmia at Whitton — from Pennsylvania so the Duke of Argyll had told him — but did not specifically request it . |
| 10 | The second Duke of Montagu had planned to make Bucklers Hard into a port rivalling Southampton . |
| 11 | During the years 1175 to 1179 the power of the Duke of Aquitaine had surged to a level never before attained . |
| 12 | The Duke of Richmond had gone pale . |
| 13 | Charles and Sarah had met at Ascot in June 1977 when Sarah was licking her wounds after her romance with the Duke of Westminster had ended . |
| 14 | THE Duke of Westminster has praised a new anti-crime initiative which aims to keep young people out of trouble . |