Example sentences of "had [verb] it in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 5 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 6 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 9 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I thought I had seen it in a Met report , some time back . |
| 12 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 13 | Because he had faith in her — she had seen it in the colours he painted her . |
| 14 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 15 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 16 | He had done it in the street in front of everyone . |
| 17 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 18 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 19 | If one of his deans or canons had written it in a Meditation he would have read it out to Bob in a mock-clerical voice , and deleted it , snarling . |
| 20 | Perhaps she had missed it in the flat , these passagings . |
| 21 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 22 | It 'll Be All Right on the Night host Dennis Norden searched for his cordless telephone , only to discover that his pet dog had buried it in the garden of his London home . |
| 23 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 24 | In despair at the greasiness of her hair , Daisy had washed it in the river — how the hell had women coped in biblical times ? — and it had dried all crinkly . |
| 25 | But nearly half of those who had used it in the past , though not using it currently , rated it as never good . |
| 26 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 27 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 28 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 29 | Obviously he had to put it in a letter . |
| 30 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |