Example sentences of "had [verb] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’ |
| 2 | Dorothy 's husband had plumbed in the second-hand washing machine for her , and refused to accept money , taken all Saturday morning doing it . |
| 3 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 4 | It was Eric 's turn next : his presenter appeared in jogging track suit , and false beard , and needed to do little more than puff heavily round the stage several times intoning ‘ no , not on the roof , no , not on the roof , to bring the house down , rousing laughter even from those who did not know that these were the mysterious words that the Warden had uttered in a loud cry when abruptly roused from slumber during a session of group therapy . |
| 5 | ‘ I must talk to you ! ’ he had uttered in an urgent undervoice . |
| 6 | The Burrows children were expected to be examples to the other youngsters in the corps , and had to sit in the front seats of any hall they attended , where Captain Burrows could keep his eagle eye on them . |
| 7 | These symptoms were present most of the time , but became much worse if Sheila drove the car , used certain aerosol sprays , or had to sit in the same room as someone wearing perfume or aftershave . |
| 8 | Rain was impressed by the amount of information he had gathered in a short time . |
| 9 | There were reports in mid-February that leaders from the 17-party Joint Action Committee of the Iraqi Opposition ( JACIO ) established in Damascus in December 1990 [ see p. 37927 ] and the pro-Western Free Iraq Council ( FIC ) formed in London on Feb. 9 , had gathered in the Saudi capital , Riyadh , to discuss the formation of a government-in-exile . |
| 10 | But word got around and by 9am some 30 anglers had gathered in the Little Chef at Bath , prompting a sweepstake on the local Bristol Avon . |
| 11 | Fry noted that night visits had trebled in the seven years from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 12 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 13 | She and Oliver ran through the downpour to Cobalt 's car and then had to wait in the inadequate shelter of the wall until he arrived . |
| 14 | This trend had culminated in a joint communiqué issued at the UN on Sept. 30 , in which South Korea and the Soviet Union had announced their intention to establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level with immediate effect . |
| 15 | Yet even as these deliberations were going on in Washington , a new Sino-American crisis had developed in the Far East . |
| 16 | On this ground , Ritschl was critical of much previous theology , and especially of the way the doctrine of the person of Christ had developed in the early centuries . |
| 17 | The many Victorian great houses had developed in the contrary direction , separating themselves progressively from the ‘ other nation ’ on whose labours they depended . |
| 18 | Berkeley 's philosophy marks the turn of the tide against the world picture which had developed in the seventeenth century , and which had reached one of its classical expositions in Locke 's Essay . |
| 19 | Mills , like Marxists , also presented an historical account of the transformation of power in American society to explain how and why it was that a new power elite had developed in the post-war world . |
| 20 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 21 | When he had left , he had loved them desperately , and had hidden in the stifling furnace of his cabin for days , weeping himself dry . |
| 22 | Ginny had hidden in the big cupboard in the dining room . |
| 23 | Julie smiled , remembering the times she and her friends had hidden in the old shed during hilarious games of hide and seek and sardines . |
| 24 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ The car had crashed through a wall and had overturned in a marshy field . |
| 26 | Her prodigious roarings and weepings would be licensed in her mind by the examples of St Mary of Oignies ( whose book she had heard in an English translation ) , St Bonaventure , St Elizabeth of Hungary and an unnamed priest she had heard of who wept ‘ so wonderfully that he wetted his vestment ’ . |
| 27 | The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) . |
| 28 | She had stopped in a busy street in Cardiff city centre after a shopping trip , and left the engine running after hearing a strange noise . |
| 29 | THE new government had to draft in a hasty replacement to lead its delegation to the first annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development following the election defeat of overseas development minister Lynda Chalker . |
| 30 | Between early May and late August 1921 , no rain had fallen in the Middle Volga , central and eastern Ukraine , and the steppes north of the Caucasus . |