Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it .
2 Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable .
3 It was Britain more than any other country which had placed a stamp on all European discussions about integration since the war .
4 When he had returned home that day , after leaving Franco , Maria Filippa had placed a dish on the table , filled with warm fresh taralli .
5 But he was under a cloud anyway after his men failed to find who had placed a bomb in the office of Major-General Seri Temiyaveh , the head of the Bangkok police department 's crime-suppression division .
6 St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent .
7 But within the clearing it was warm and safe-feeling ; Clumhach had lit their usual fire , which was burning up brightly , and somebody had placed a cauldron of spiced wine to simmer over it .
8 Sun Tzu had placed the subject at the end of his thirteen-chapter work with good reason .
9 Lessingham had placed the bottle of claret on the hearth .
10 Walter Carew had placed the painting of himself further down , dissociating himself from his weaker , lecherous , spendthrift brother .
11 His Uncle 's illness had placed the responsibility for all the sheep on George 's shoulders .
12 From the yard where the cart was kept , Rosa heard the Small splosh in the bucket after Sabina had placed the bird between her legs and slitted it to pull the guts .
13 Violently used , she could scarcely walk — and without a word , had placed the shilling on the kitchen table .
14 ( She was , actually , at that very moment congratulating Peter Herbert , the owner of Gravetye Manor , on ‘ the most delicious , old-fashioned , English , scrummy , hot pudding ’ ; as ever , she had placed the emphasis on all the wrong words . )
15 She had placed the worm-cake on one of her prettiest saucers .
16 There , by the easy chair , he had placed the works of Gerald Seymour-Strachey three fairly substantial-looking volumes .
17 The producer , Roy Emerson , had placed the soloist in the midst of the RPO strings rather than in front of the orchestra and conductor , as would be the normal configuration .
18 Neither Henry V nor his son had placed the solution to the problem of Aquitaine ( the old feudal problem ) high in his list of priorities .
19 Depositing the letters in front of him , and waiting until the younger girl had placed the tray on his desk , she flashed a dazzling smile at him , then retreated .
20 He had placed the torch on a small mound of dirt and the light shone on to Louise Butler 's cold and lifeless skin .
21 While we had been out Mrs Taylor had placed the paper in position .
22 The rise of the Greens had placed the SPD in a difficult position , in that any attempt to capture moderate votes might alienate existing party supporters and drive them over to the Greens .
23 ‘ So answer my question , ’ he urged after the waiter had poured their wine and another had placed the tapas in the centre of the table .
24 Air Marshal Sibun , Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force , announced on Oct. 18 that Indonesia had placed an order for 24 Hawk jet fighters from the United Kingdom at a reported purchase price of US$500 million .
25 Venice had placed an embargo on Bosphorus trade and was hesitant even over her Alexandria fleet .
26 He was thankful , too , that Len Brayton had healed the rift between him and his father , so that he was able once more to visit the family home .
27 The company collapsed , the ITA had to re-advertise the contract in July 1955 , and the ABPC film company , one-third owned by the American Warner Brothers , was persuaded firmly to accept it the very day before ITV started in London .
28 Because the sets were completely different , the Theatre Royal having a much taller stage , White had to restage the movements during the two-week break .
29 The wind had ripped the tarpaulin off some of the laid-up boats , and huge fragments of oilcloth were flying at random , wrapping themselves round masts and rails .
30 Once she started writing her a letter and had filled a sheet of paper before she realized that Maggie could n't read so there was no sense in sending it .
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