Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to perform a tracheotomy throat operation to aid his breathing . |
| 2 | Debra Busuttil will never have another baby because after labour was induced for the dead child doctors had to perform a life-saving hysterectomy . |
| 3 | Hogg explained : ‘ We had to perform a balancing act . |
| 4 | It claimed patients would have more choice over which hospital they went to , but in fact they would have less because they would have to go to the hospital with which their district health authority had placed a contract , he said . |
| 5 | But he was under a cloud anyway after his men failed to find who had placed a bomb in the office of Major-General Seri Temiyaveh , the head of the Bangkok police department 's crime-suppression division . |
| 6 | On the eve of poll he had placed a £5 bet at 16–1 with a Bristol bookmaker that the Tories would win an overall majority of between 20 and 25 seats . |
| 7 | George Clifford , whom Miller met in Holland , had placed a brilliant young Swede , Carl Linnaeus in charge of his large garden and menagerie at De Hartekamp . |
| 8 | In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 . |
| 9 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |
| 10 | Officers had placed a metal colander on the head of a suspect and attached the colander to the copier with metal wires . |
| 11 | It was Britain more than any other country which had placed a stamp on all European discussions about integration since the war . |
| 12 | Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable . |
| 13 | He mentioned a lake not far away , at the centre of which a farmer had placed a scarecrow . |
| 14 | But within the clearing it was warm and safe-feeling ; Clumhach had lit their usual fire , which was burning up brightly , and somebody had placed a cauldron of spiced wine to simmer over it . |
| 15 | When he had returned home that day , after leaving Franco , Maria Filippa had placed a dish on the table , filled with warm fresh taralli . |
| 16 | The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it . |
| 17 | In my self-conscious zeal to improve myself , I had placed a regular order for the London Times , not a paper normally stocked by that small newsagent . |
| 18 | Yolland saw that the BCR had installed a turntable at Stretford Bridge , constructed a platform and upon it had placed a temporary station — presumably a building of some sort . |
| 19 | By Nov. 20 Mahdi Mohammed was reported to be massing reinforcements in Warsheik , about 60 km north of Mogadishu , and had placed a satellite telephone call to the British Broadcasting Corporation denying that he had been ousted . |
| 20 | The bogus golfers had placed a triangular support under the open end of the decapitated golf-bag and had hammered a notched support into the grout at its base , which still rested on the trolley . |
| 21 | She had placed the worm-cake on one of her prettiest saucers . |
| 22 | Walter Carew had placed the painting of himself further down , dissociating himself from his weaker , lecherous , spendthrift brother . |
| 23 | Lessingham had placed the bottle of claret on the hearth . |
| 24 | His Uncle 's illness had placed the responsibility for all the sheep on George 's shoulders . |
| 25 | On returning to the surface , he carelessly looked away from where he had placed the briar and a snake ate it , whole . |
| 26 | Violently used , she could scarcely walk — and without a word , had placed the shilling on the kitchen table . |
| 27 | While we had been out Mrs Taylor had placed the paper in position . |
| 28 | The producer , Roy Emerson , had placed the soloist in the midst of the RPO strings rather than in front of the orchestra and conductor , as would be the normal configuration . |
| 29 | Neither Henry V nor his son had placed the solution to the problem of Aquitaine ( the old feudal problem ) high in his list of priorities . |
| 30 | Lee waited until the girl had placed the tray down on a small side table and backed silently from the room . |