Example sentences of "had [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 4 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 7 | They had relayed it through the Royalbion representative there , Jim Fletcher . |
| 8 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 9 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 10 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 13 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 14 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 15 | When his caddie had fished the ball out and he had dropped it behind the stream he was facing his fifth shot . |
| 16 | He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia . |
| 17 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 18 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 19 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 20 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 21 | President Carter had applied it in the form of an embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union after the Christmas 1979 invasion of Afghanistan ; and it was to prove as ineffective as the Arab oil embargo . |
| 22 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 23 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 24 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 25 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 26 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 27 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |
| 28 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 29 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 30 | He had seen it from the outside . |