Example sentences of "had [verb] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 2 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 3 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 4 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 5 | They had relayed it through the Royalbion representative there , Jim Fletcher . |
| 6 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 7 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 8 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 9 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 10 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 11 | When his caddie had fished the ball out and he had dropped it behind the stream he was facing his fifth shot . |
| 12 | He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia . |
| 13 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 14 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 15 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 16 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 17 | President Carter had applied it in the form of an embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union after the Christmas 1979 invasion of Afghanistan ; and it was to prove as ineffective as the Arab oil embargo . |
| 18 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 19 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 20 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |
| 21 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 22 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 23 | He had seen it from the outside . |
| 24 | Because he had faith in her — she had seen it in the colours he painted her . |
| 25 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 26 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 27 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 28 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 29 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 30 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |