Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be no doubt that by competing with the plaintiffs both as regards supplies and customers he had placed himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interest and duty . |
| 2 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 3 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 4 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 5 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 6 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 7 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 8 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 9 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 10 | Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard . |
| 11 | The idea of a National Government , then , had implanted itself in the mind of the King , and in that of his closest adviser , as a possible solution to the economic crisis which many felt to be imminent . |
| 12 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Joseph Usher , Tace 's hero , had hidden himself in a chamber of the mine but had been driven out by hunger and thirst and , having given himself up , been taken away to trial and execution . |
| 15 | Sapt had hidden me in a room in the old castle , and he and Fritz brought her to me there . |
| 16 | Even so , she had hidden herself in the claustrophobic cabin , afraid she might be recognized . |
| 17 | His father , Philip Henry Thomas , had distinguished himself in a Civil Service Examination ( Executive Branch ) and had been posted to a staff clerkship for light railways and tramways at the Board of Trade . |
| 18 | From their own number they chose Bel Shanaar , Prince of Tiranoc , an Elf who had distinguished himself in the war and yet was seen as a voice of peace and reason . |
| 19 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 20 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 21 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 22 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 23 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 24 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And he had stopped her in the lobby once to enquire , ‘ How are things going ? |
| 27 | He was an old man like the guard who had stopped us in the road the night before . |
| 28 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 29 | She recalled the swift bruising kiss he had given her in the restaurant . |
| 30 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |