Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 soldiers at the pub had to perform life saving first aid . |
| 2 | Over Maurice 's allegations , Unionists voted under no illusions ; Maurice had indicted Law as well as Lloyd George , and a packed meeting of the UWC under Carson resolved to back the government , not because they believed its explanations but because of their belief in the war . |
| 3 | Port Vale 's FA Cup run has hampered Rovers in their chase for Vale boss John Rudge , who they had placed top of their shortlist for the managerial vacancy . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Mike McMonagle , one of the leaders banned from Wichita , claimed that the campaign had " rejuvenated the pro-life movement nationally " and had placed Operation Rescue in the mainstream of that movement . |
| 5 | Capricorn , giving that address , had placed insurance policies at Lloyd 's up to £1.1m for a wide variety of categories of objects of art . |
| 6 | She had placed Donna next to Matthew Prescott , while Alex was seated beside one of the other men . |
| 7 | The Hammonds had placed Luddism as the resort to violence by traditional workers who had failed in the face of a growing laissez-faire |
| 8 | They had placed linen wadding soaked in water around her to keep her body cool , but despite the attentions of the attendants there was no stopping the persistent flies , and although it was still early enough in the season of shemu for the sun 's heat to be mild , her face was already puffy . |
| 9 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 10 | The only setback for the LDP was its defeat in the gubernatorial election in Tokyo where the party had withdrawn support from its veteran incumbent governor , Shunichi Suzuki , in favour of a candidate supported by the DSP and Komeito . |
| 11 | Morgan had claimed that her former husband had subjected their child to sexual abuse , and had withdrawn visitation rights . |
| 12 | ’ If the ship had sustained damage in any of those areas , I would have included the data in my damage survey . ’ |
| 13 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 14 | She had hated Dierdriu on the terrible day that Dierdriu had told her that she and Fergus were to be parted . |
| 15 | Blanche never did , and had hated maths ever since . |
| 16 | I had dismissed marriage as being unsatisfactory . |
| 17 | For many years they had formed part of The Market Place surface . |
| 18 | He indicated that he would introduce whatever evidence he thought to be appropriate , regardless of whether such evidence had formed part of the reasons for the suspension or not . |
| 19 | These texts were often inscribed on woodwork which had formed part of the old rood screens , reredoses , and triptychs ; this was the case at Binham Priory in Norfolk , where the medieval paintings of saints are now showing through the worn whitewash and black-letter Protestant text . |
| 20 | Set against the resentment which their greed aroused , the administrative reforms which the younger Despenser together with the Chancellor Robert Baldock and the Treasurer Walter Stapleton implemented between 1322 and 1326 were of little political significance , despite the fact that some of their measures , such as the reduction in the financial independence of the Wardrobe , had formed part of the Ordainers ' programme in 1310 . |
| 21 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 22 | Sihanouk 's return ended almost 13 years in exile , where he had formed part of the tripartite " Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea " with the Khmers Rouges and the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) led by Son Sann . |
| 23 | Two Iraqis , aged 29 and 49 , were sentenced to death on May 5 for informing on and torturing Kuwaitis who had formed part of the resistance to the Iraqi occupation of 1990-91 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In some areas fundholders had formed liaison groups and were meeting regularly to share experiences and develop their collective expertise . |
| 26 | His father , a seaman , had jumped ship to seek a better life when Bulgaria had been on the brink of civil war in the 1920s . |
| 27 | Having entered the Merchant Navy at the age of fifteen , he had jumped ship into the US Navy and ended in the Royal Navy for whom he played seventeen seasons of rugby . |
| 28 | The giant had jumped splat into the middle of the canal — and into the middle of the flock of ducks — and now stood there watching the chaos it had created . |
| 29 | I felt — I could not be more certain than that — that when I had treated polio cases on previous occasions I had actually sensed wasting muscles making slight quivers , contracting with the pain of a spasm ; and it was these contractions of muscles which , following normal treatment , so often caused shortening of the leg when the muscles withered . |
| 30 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |