Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to perform a tracheotomy throat operation to aid his breathing . |
| 2 | Hogg explained : ‘ We had to perform a balancing act . |
| 3 | By Nov. 20 Mahdi Mohammed was reported to be massing reinforcements in Warsheik , about 60 km north of Mogadishu , and had placed a satellite telephone call to the British Broadcasting Corporation denying that he had been ousted . |
| 4 | Officers had placed a metal colander on the head of a suspect and attached the colander to the copier with metal wires . |
| 5 | Cranston had placed the wine cup and jug beside the bed , collapsed on to the mattress and was smiling beatifically at the ceiling , fast asleep . |
| 6 | Aileen Stewart had placed an eighteen-inch pie in the very centre of the board ; its summit gleamed yellow with a basting of egg . |
| 7 | That evening , when Mrs Hollidaye crept into Dot 's bedroom to damp down the fire for the night and check that the guard was securely in place , she had filled a trug basket with garden produce . |
| 8 | Rain and rivers eroded the soft sandstones that had filled the lagoon basin , scouring them away so that today the reefs are exposed once more , high and dry , facing not the sea but desert covered with clumps of spinifex grass and stunted mulga trees . |
| 9 | Holly had filled the plastic bag with oil and twisted the neck tight and fastened it with a snip of wire . |
| 10 | Yesterday Bushwing managing director David Walker confirmed they had withdrawn the business park part of the plan . |
| 11 | Would you believe it , the Africans there had formed a brass band and played all Irish tunes ! |
| 12 | Five of the practices had formed a fundholding team consisting of the practice manager , lead clinician , and one or two secretarial staff . |
| 13 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and Greens , which had formed a coalition government in Hesse for 14 months up to February 1987 , benefited from pacifist support immediately after the outbreak of the Gulf war . |
| 14 | The new parliament would have 240 seats instead of the 400 in the outgoing Grand National Assembly , to which Bulgaria 's first free elections had been held in June 1990 [ see pp. 37543-44 ] , and in which the BSP had held 211 seats to the UDF 's 144 ; BSP and UDF deputies had formed a coalition government in December 1990 [ see p. 37923 ] . |
| 15 | Various groups broadly sympathetic to the LTTE , which had formed the EDF alliance [ see parties above ] and won 13 parliamentary seats in the 1990 elections , boycotted parliament after a ceasefire between the government and the LTTE broke down in mid-1990 . |
| 16 | He arrived in England in the autumn of 1968 aboard the USS United States of America , along with 32 clean-cut American youths who had formed the Sailing Party of that year 's Rhodes Scholars . |
| 17 | In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war . |
| 18 | The odd thing about this new lava plug is that it went straight up , like a piston in a cylinder , wearing on top a thick cap of mud and clay , which had originally been deposited in a crater lake and had formed the ground surface prior to all the upheaval . |
| 19 | It was the first time she had uttered the word husband ; it gave her a sense of propriety . |
| 20 | Kopyion 's refusal to answer any of his previous questions had irritated the Time Lord . |
| 21 | One came from someone in prison who ‘ had nothing to give but enclosed stamp ’ ; another from a pensioner who had sellotaped a pound coin to her letter and apologized for not sending more . |
| 22 | She had come through her sternest test , she had proven the singing budgie brigade was woefully wrong and that she was now ready to take her career into the even more rarefied atmosphere occupied by only a tiny handful of superstars . |
| 23 | He had propped the tarpaulin trailer-cover against the Land Rover and weighted it with jerry cans to eliminate the wind that swept under the vehicle . |
| 24 | By the time CAMRA celebrated its first ten years it could pride itself on a large national membership and a series of hardhitting reports that had exposed the market domination of the big brewers and the shoddy beers they produced . |
| 25 | The laughter and voices were coming from the closed rooms at the end of the corridor that Ruth had christened the west wing . |
| 26 | On July 12th the Observer reported that a sheep in Hereford had wrecked a china shop … the fightback begins … |
| 27 | Within 2 days of the start , an explosion had wrecked a drilling machine at a small non-union mine . |
| 28 | Opponents spread rumours ; gossips passed them on — that Arthur had misappropriated funds , that he had wrecked the church car ; that he had insulted a senior white church lady , and so on . |
| 29 | It could be argued that these provisions would justify allowing any person to challenge exercises of power A , but also applying a more restrictive standing rule ( perhaps something like ‘ special interest ’ ) to challenges to exercises of power B on the ground that Parliament had intended the government body in question to be the prime guardian of the public interest in the exercise of power B. |
| 30 | Les Conn : ‘ By this time , I had arranged a recording test with Decca and David had his first single released called Liza Jane which was on Vocalion . ’ |