Example sentences of "had [verb] a [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had filled a cup for herself , but made no attempt to drink . |
| 10 | The Labour Party was particularly critical of government policy in this area when it emerged after April 1 that Guys , the major London teaching hospital which had formed a trust with Lewisham , had made 600 redundancies and closed as many as 25 departments in a series of cost-cutting measures . |
| 11 | Gillespie was jealous and angry because his wife Kay , 28 , had formed a relationship with another man . |
| 12 | And now Sutton had formed a coterie of cronies round him and was appointing the wrong staff , which had to be stopped at once . |
| 13 | The fire had formed a bed of glowing ash , a core on which from time to time they threw a branch . |
| 14 | The DP ( which in April had formed a government with support from the Social Democratic Party — SD — and the Republican Party-RP ) retained a slight overall lead in terms of the overall vote , with 43 per cent compared with 41 per cent for the SPA . |
| 15 | Another Nassauer battalion had formed a line to the right of the stream . |
| 16 | My state was an unhappy one compared with the other members of my family : my mother had become attached to the grim Porua , and Alec had formed a liaison with Nuria . |
| 17 | Behind the creation stood the familiar figure of Lloyd George who in the previous December had formed a coalition with himself as Prime Minister to replace the previous government of Herbert Asquith which had become discredited by criticisms of its conduct of the war . |
| 18 | I crept out from under the chair and smelt the dark liquid which had formed a pool on the hearth and soaked into the rug . |
| 19 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 20 | In 1911 , following six months ' military service with the Danish infantry , Rambush was invited to England by Arthur H. Lymn , who had formed a business in London to further develop and exploit commercially existing processes of gas production for industrial purposes . |
| 21 | ‘ Before I got on the plane , I had to treat a woman on the island of St Thomas , when she fell from a balcony , fracturing her skull . |
| 22 | Later in the 830s , Bernard had improvised a career in Septimania , outside Pippin 's kingdom , abandoning his old base in Barcelona for a new one in Uzès , where his wife Dhuoda was installed , and acquiring resources by appropriating local church lands in the Narbonnais . |
| 23 | Everyone had to carry a gas-mask at all times , and an air-raid practice was held on that first afternoon . |
| 24 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 25 | Vi had never imagined she could think kindly of any submarine again , but if it was one of your own then surely it was right and proper to wish it well , and raising her hand she had traced a blessing on the early morning air . |
| 26 | They had traced a relative of Miss Needham 's already , a Miss Frances Needham-Burrell . |
| 27 | They had traced a son of Ivan Makarov to Milan of all places . |
| 28 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 29 | It was almost uncanny the way he had painted a picture of her teenage appearance . |
| 30 | Additional accusations by the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi , of the possible involvement of the West German intelligence services had provoked a demonstration of an estimated 2,000 people outside the West German embassy in Tripoli on March 15 . |