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He had done nothing to foster good relations with the newly independent United States: both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson complained of his obstructive attitude and " aversion to having anything to do with us ". Subsequently he took little part in politics: in 1792, hearing rumours that a new coalition might be formed, he unwisely offered himself as its head and met with a firm rebuff from both Pitt and the King.
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had and done
Surprisingly, he had told the others what he had done.
He had done time for the theft.
He, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.
He had done his rustling openly and boasted about it.
An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.
Even in the very area where the shooting had been done, cattle were still disappearing.
My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.
Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.
At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.
He had always done well.
Never well known, but he had done his work competently.
When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.
As he had done on his first Imperial sortie a year and a half before, Lewis trekked southeast through Red Russia to Kamieniec.
The Artists contended that the Philistines, gross of soul, were all for having Son et Lumiere, since the French were footing the bill and the attraction, wherever it had been done, had proven popular.
It took Pike a long time to realize what Woodruff had done, and it had a profound effect on him.
When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.
Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.
had and nothing
His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
He could not grasp that Lord had withdrawn from the fight minutes ago, and that his leaden arms were flailing at nothing but the air.
For, with a single exception, nothing had happened to them.
She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness.
She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.
He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.
He lifts her, puts her down, and walks off, neither pleased nor disturbed, as if nothing had happened.
In prison he had been able to sketch nothing but figures from life, his guards, his companions in misery.
I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.
For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.
To attack Pike directly would gain Woodruff little, for as a penniless newcomer Pike had nothing to lose.
The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.
I felt very flattered to be included in the protection of their company even though I had nothing to be protected from.
It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.
We had assumed that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available to the public.
had and foster
his foster parents had taught him to see.
It was organized by the king's foster brother, Helmichis, with the support of Alboin's wife, Rosamund, daughter of the Gepid king whom Alboin had killed some years earlier.
The couple were also foster parents to a boy named Gerhard von Ahe, son of an SS officer who had died before the war.
She said my foster father had had no goals and no strength.
To foster openness, all employees had full access to the payrolls, although few employees ever took advantage of the privilege.
DNA tests later confirmed the boy, who had been living in a Bogotá foster home for more than two years under a different name, was hers.
Garfield's detractors later used this letter, which Chase never personally disclosed, to foster widespread criticism of Garfield as a betrayer, despite the fact that Halleck and Lincoln shared the same concerns over Rosecrans's reluctance to attack, and that Garfield had openly conveyed his concerns to Rosecrans.
Lisbon had already ( 1179 ) received a charter from Afonso I. Sancho also endeavoured to foster immigration and agriculture, by granting estates to the military orders and municipalities on condition that the occupiers should cultivate or colonize their lands.
Briefly associated with Terry Melcher, Manson had believed that Melcher would foster his musical aspirations ; when this did not occur, Manson felt infuriated and betrayed.
Commissioned by the U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ), the Information Science Research Institute ( ISRI ) had the mission to foster the improvement of automated technologies for understanding machine printed documents, and it conducted the most authoritative of the Annual Test of OCR Accuracy for five consecutive years in the mid-90s.
He had grown up moving from one foster home to another, as his mother was found to be unfit to raise him.
The Egyptologist Donald B. Redford observed that although Necho II was " a man of action from the start, and endowed with an imagination perhaps beyond that of his contemporaries, Necho had the misfortune to foster the impression of being a failure.
The suckling future king of the gods had unusual abilities and strength, and in playing with his nursemaid accidentally broke off one of her horns, which then had the divine power to provide unending nourishment, as the foster mother had to the god.
Mike's history as a longtime resident of Fenster was explained, since he had been an orphan from birth and had been shuffled around to many foster homes before permanently staying at Fenster from the time he was seven.
To foster the case for redevelopment, Spalliero donated land holdings he had near the airport to the township Board of Education.
Modernist painters had shows in the New York galleries, and the city ’ s museums were an invaluable resource to foster a budding artist ’ s knowledge, experience and skills.
Poe's mother Eliza, brother William, and foster mother Frances Allan had also died of tuberculosis.
Tyrker, one of Erik's thralls, had been specially trusted to keep in charge of Erik's children, as Leif later referred to him as his " foster father ".
She had a troubled childhood, spending sixteen years in foster homes after her mother, Emma, was judged to be mentally unfit to look after her children.
Initially he had felt writing to be at odds with his vocation, worried it would foster a tendency to individuality.
Medraut is never considered Arthur's son in Welsh texts, only his nephew, though The Dream of Rhonabwy mentions that the king had been his foster father.
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