Example sentences of "had [verb] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun Tzu had placed the subject at the end of his thirteen-chapter work with good reason . |
| 2 | Lessingham had placed the bottle of claret on the hearth . |
| 3 | Walter Carew had placed the painting of himself further down , dissociating himself from his weaker , lecherous , spendthrift brother . |
| 4 | His Uncle 's illness had placed the responsibility for all the sheep on George 's shoulders . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Violently used , she could scarcely walk — and without a word , had placed the shilling on the kitchen table . |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | She had placed the worm-cake on one of her prettiest saucers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had placed the torch on a small mound of dirt and the light shone on to Louise Butler 's cold and lifeless skin . |
| 13 | While we had been out Mrs Taylor had placed the paper in position . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But Jay 's spine became electric as Pergolese 's Stabat Mater came through the speakers sure as it had filled the dusk of her dream . |
| 18 | Keeping furniture to a minimum , she had filled the place with books and plants . |
| 19 | He had filled the post in an acting capacity since the resignation of Vitaly Masol in October . |
| 20 | These were so extreme that I was sure some office junior had filled the form in wrongly ! |
| 21 | Norway had negotiated terms for joining the EC in April 1972 , but had withdrawn the application after a national referendum the following September [ see pp. 25525-26 ] . |
| 22 | The next day , the solicitor phoned to say the vendor had withdrawn the property from the market , leaving us very disappointed and £1,000 worse off after paying legal and survey fees . |
| 23 | He expected limitless serenity of a man half Indian , and indeed Thomas had sustained the expectation for twenty years or more . |
| 24 | She had hated the taste of it and spat it out immediately . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , she felt almost certain that he had guessed the reason for her sudden change of tack . |
| 26 | She had guessed the truth from the way he spoke those two words . |
| 27 | Already in 1975 , however , the American Defence Secretary , Schlesinger , had justified the need for the Diego Garcia base as a response inter alia to an extensive naval ‘ facility ’ built by the Soviet Union at the Somalian port of Berbera . |
| 28 | Speaking in Taif , Saudi Arabia , on Feb. 11 , the Information Minister , Badr Jasim al Yaqub , had dismissed the possibility of early elections and had hinted that a period of martial law might be necessary . |
| 29 | In a radio interview of Oct. 5 President Taya had dismissed the idea of a multiparty conference : " It consolidates the success of those who shout with the loudest voices , the most arrogant lobbies , and the tribes with strong dependency on the outside . " |
| 30 | When Airtours had announced its full-year results in December , chairman David Crossland had dismissed the idea as nonsense . |