Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 2 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 3 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
| 4 | It is said that he was found out by one of the groups of civilian vigilantes who sprang up spontaneously on 22 December : apparently he had disguised himself in ordinary working clothes and was driving a Dacia 1300 when stopped , but suspicion was aroused when a search of his car revealed citrus fruits , like oranges and pineapples , in the boot — no ordinary Romanian had access to them . |
| 5 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 6 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 7 | Pippin , the first of the line , had destined it for his first-born , the young Charlemagne in the 750s ; Charlemagne had assigned it in 790 to his son Charles , later labelled primogenitus and designated heir to the regnum Francorum ( though he predeceased his father in 811 ) . |
| 8 | It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953 . |
| 9 | Until top jockey Mark Dwyer was handed the plum ride on Jodami this season , the trainer 's daughter Anthea and her husband Patrick Farrell had partnered him in all his races . |
| 10 | This from eight-year-old Leslie who had let him in earlier . |
| 11 | Whenever the two women were together , the conflict of loyalties had torn her in two . |
| 12 | The Republicans had committed themselves in 1920 to remaining outside the League of Nations , and there was no serious attempt to reverse this policy subsequently . |
| 13 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 14 | Since the early part of the 1960s the sense that the universities needed to take their national role more seriously , as Reid had reminded them in 1948 , had been somewhat enhanced by the appointment of the Robbins Committee . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Proponents of scientific inquiry would often argue that God had revealed Himself in two books — the book of His words ( the Bible ) and the book of His works ( nature ) . |
| 17 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 18 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 19 | She had seen something in those dark tragic eyes , something akin to the anguish betrayed now in Tyler 's . |
| 20 | Those who had seen her in this mood before faded quietly out of reach ; others got their fingers burnt . |
| 21 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 22 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 23 | She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS . |
| 24 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 25 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 26 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 27 | And whoever took this four marb eight marbles had chucked them in this hole and if a even number come out it was mine , if a odd number came out then he 'd take the eight . |
| 28 | A kolkhoz to the east of Smolensk city in the Dorogobuzhskii raion complained that in 1921 its two shefi , a nearby hospital , and a regiment , had helped with the harvest , but no one had visited it in 1922 . |
| 29 | Basquiat 's estate , administered by his accountant father , still faces lawsuits from a dealer asking for $900,000 for three paintings Basquiat had promised her in 1982 but never delivered . |
| 30 | George had told him in private the reason for Sarah Butler being packed off to Leeds , and he had realised then that her infatuation for George was an obsession . |