Example sentences of "had [verb] it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 2 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 3 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 4 | This happened first in Germany , when Georg Siemens , the founder and head of Germany 's premier bank , Deutsche Bank , saved the electrical apparatus company his cousin Werner had founded after Werner 's sons and heirs had mismanaged it into near collapse . |
| 5 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 6 | ‘ Nobody was to know that Germans had made it onto British soil . |
| 7 | Eating the cake , he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth , every mouthful an act of shared indecency . |
| 8 | The paper owner , the local council , had bought it for eventual use as a road , but had no immediate use for it . |
| 9 | He had not only preserved the room , he had cleaned it with meticulous care and provided fresh flowers in the little glass spill . |
| 10 | The apartment itself was enormous and , as if she were scared of the space , Jane Pargeter had crammed it with expensive furniture . |
| 11 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 12 | Local militia had to protect it against enthusiastic souvenir hunters . |
| 13 | Now , Taheb had set it with large earthenware tubs , from which a profusion of tall dark-green plants grew . |
| 14 | The key thing appeared to be that Delander had fitted it with double wheel or duplex escapement — and it could be the first of the rare group of his clocks that include the feature . |