Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lessingham had placed the bottle of claret on the hearth . |
| 2 | While we had been out Mrs Taylor had placed the paper in position . |
| 3 | Once she started writing her a letter and had filled a sheet of paper before she realized that Maggie could n't read so there was no sense in sending it . |
| 4 | When Airtours had announced its full-year results in December , chairman David Crossland had dismissed the idea as nonsense . |
| 5 | Shortly beforehand , Ben Ali had dismissed the secretary of state for national security , Mohamed Larbi Mahjoubi , who ( like Khelil ) had only been appointed in March 1990 . |
| 6 | The DP ( which in April had formed a government with support from the Social Democratic Party — SD — and the Republican Party-RP ) retained a slight overall lead in terms of the overall vote , with 43 per cent compared with 41 per cent for the SPA . |
| 7 | In 1932 a number of independent student groups , dominated mainly by the Communist Party , had formed the Federation of Student Societies and this group was accepted into the ULF at its Cardiff conference in January 1936 . |
| 8 | Their junior commanders were mainly young urban middle-class men , the sort who had formed the audience for Sukarno . |
| 9 | In those days she had likened the climb to life : she had dared to hope that there might be wonderful things over the horizon . |
| 10 | His thoughts teetered nastily , and he wondered if he had uttered the possibility in order to ward it off . |
| 11 | A similar 10 per cent tax had been announced in 1987 [ see p. 35723 ] with effect from January 1989 but was dropped in April 1989 after it had provoked a flight of capital abroad [ see pp. 36597-98 ] . |
| 12 | He it was who by crowning Otto at Aachen had plunged the papacy into trouble . |
| 13 | Someone had arranged a scatter of sea-shore pebbles on a low trunk , trying for a random pattern to make it look as though they had been cast like dice . |
| 14 | The welcoming party for Ali Bacher , first off the plane , and the 94-strong South African party was only a small one , comprising Jamaican and West Indian Board officials and assorted media , but all present knew they had witnessed a piece of history that only recently seemed destined for the next century . |
| 15 | One suffragette , Rosa Lamartine Yates , recounted that she had witnessed the double-standard in action while standing bail for two women at the west London police court . |
| 16 | He had witnessed the death by hanging of two members of the Al Daawa al Islamiya who were believed connected with the attempt on the life of the Chairman . |
| 17 | Neither had consulted a doctor about bowel problems . |
| 18 | To this end he had formulated a plan of action in his devious mind . |
| 19 | His car was an extraordinary contraption , an ancient Ford truck from which some amateur carpenter ( or maybe the ship 's chandler ? ) had stripped off a ten-hundredweight body , and on the chassis had erected a kind of ambulance — with a stretcher bed in it and one chair firmly screwed to the floorboards . |
| 20 | We found that the natives , After we 'd reoccupied the village , Had erected a sort of shrine for Celia Where they brought offerings of fruit and flowers , Fowls , and even sucking pigs . |
| 21 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 22 | They thought that he reconciled himself too easily to his position , and that he had developed a taste for exile as an escape from business . |
| 23 | On the one hand he had developed a taste for study , which he nourished with a diet of steady and wide reading . |
| 24 | They were found in 16% of 98 children who had completed a course of sclerotherapy , all of whom responded to simple dilatation . |
| 25 | Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case . |
| 26 | Police even found he had hidden a piece of metal , which they believe he planned to file into a knife , hidden in the sole of his shoe . |
| 27 | During the getaway , he had hidden the money in undergrowth in woods near Auchterarder . |
| 28 | When the Halifax last readjusted , it had to accommodate a rise in mortgage rate in 1988 from 10.3 to 13.5 per cent . |
| 29 | The long , narrow living room had to accommodate an assortment of furniture — two navy sofas , a floral sofa , almond-green curtains and a TV set , not to mention a variety of side furniture in different woods . |
| 30 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |