Example sentences of "[noun prp] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson pondered the ruin of the building : ‘ The church of Elgin had , in the intestine tumults of the barbarous ages , been laid waste by the irruption of a highland chief , whom the bishop had offended . ’ |
| 2 | No , not enough of a clue as to whether these were the same depredations Johnson had deplored : Elgin had suffered marauders more than once . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was buried with the kings of France until Napoleon had the remains removed to the Invalides in 1800 . |
| 5 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Napoleon had fought one of his early battles at Toulon , but Rose-Marie had n't realised this until Catriona pointed it out . |
| 9 | The Poles had nurtured the hope that the French would restore the old Polish state with Danzig attached as before , but Napoleon had other ideas . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was based on the principle of ‘ a nation in arms ’ , much as Napoleon had employed a levee en masse . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The French army , which the Duke still thought was massing south of the border , was probably the finest instrument that Napoleon had ever commanded . |
| 14 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | In June 1940 the land of Louis XIV and Napoleon had experienced swift defeat at the hands of Germany . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 21 | The first Napoleon had been a patron of men of science , perhaps hoping that finance and political economy might be thus ‘ removed from the sphere of party ’ ; and men like Berthollet , Laplace , Cuvier , Gay-Lussac , Arago , Dumas and Berthelot played prominent parts in , or received titles from , governments of different colours during the century . |
| 22 | History might have been different if Cleopatra 's nose had been longer or Napoleon had been taller . |
| 23 | ‘ Wait till you have a bloody beard and all , ’ Hoomey had sympathized with him on occasion , for Mr Singh had a large beard secured under his turban . |
| 24 | On one occasion Mrs Singh had asked me to go with her to visit one of the boy 's teachers . |
| 25 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 28 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 29 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 30 | Mrs and Mrs Singh had received a letter offering Balbinder a place at Cedars . |