Example sentences of "had [verb] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His solemn burial was at Constantinople alongside the cenotaphs of the twelve apostles which he had placed in the church of the apostles on the city 's highest hill . |
| 2 | Sendero Luminoso had threatened to kill all candidates as well as those voting in the municipal elections , and 200 mayoral candidates and about 300 other candidates had withdrawn in the areas under states of emergency [ for which see pp. 36972 ; 37065 ] . |
| 3 | ‘ It was painted throughout in a very unattractive shade of green , ’ she explains , ‘ and someone had plumbed in a WC there — what a bizarre thing to do . ’ |
| 4 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 5 | As an air-raid had just begun they could not leave and had to remain in an ambience where , as they now acutely realised , they were not wanted and did not belong . |
| 6 | His feet splashed in the pools that had formed in the night . |
| 7 | The cyclone in late April had formed in the Bay of Bengal and brought winds of up to 145 mph . |
| 8 | B. Layers of peat had formed in the marshes and between them there were layers of mud or silt . |
| 9 | This opinion was consistent with the opinion which Mr. Tinker had formed while the deceased was at Samuel Saye House and that Dr. Rao had formed in the period before the deceased 's death . |
| 10 | He would recall some prostitute he had frequented in the rue de la Cigogne : ‘ I fired five shots into her , ’ he would boast to me . |
| 11 | But he had none of the grandiloquence of Vasco Núñez ; he uttered none of the proud formulae Balboa had uttered in the Gulf of San Migud . |
| 12 | If Earl Eric was in England at this time , it may increase the likelihood that Swegen was also , for the two had collaborated in the defeat of Olaf Tryggvason , and Eric later fought for Cnut and was given the earldom of Northumbria . |
| 13 | Gedanken had to sit in a seat opposite Chris Parker . |
| 14 | Apparently they all had to sit in a circle and put their hands on the playing board . |
| 15 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 16 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 17 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 18 | Beneath the lid was enacted , in Boucheresque eighteenth-century terms , exactly the same scene as some ancient Greek had painted in the kylix two thousand years before . |
| 19 | The continual slamming of the seas under the bridge-deck beat at them , fountaining up through the manhole Trent had unscrewed in the saloon deck . |
| 20 | She had taught in a language school in Birmingham three mornings a week , a language school with a crèche , run by an enlightened Belgian woman , where Charlotte and Luke had gone until they were old enough for school . |
| 21 | Michael Walsh had taught in the school for six years , and had been involved in meetings in the Humanities department when the idea was discussed : |
| 22 | As she was from a neighbouring Emirate which had a far less critical attitude toward the participation of women in education , Girl ‘ A ’ , it was discovered , had taught in an infant school after finishing her own schooling . |
| 23 | On 9 February 1956 a large group of Falangist students had gathered in a street in the university quarter of Madrid to commemorate the anniversary of the death , in 1934 , of one of the party 's first martyrs , the student Matias Montero . |
| 24 | A knot of dark-suited Garrick members had gathered in the hall and were muttering anxiously . |
| 25 | In the port of Dürres on March 29 police again unsuccessfully attempted to disperse a crowd which had gathered in the hope of emigrating . |
| 26 | A small crowd had gathered in the piazza as the morning advanced and people came out to buy bread or eat a hurried breakfast in the bar before catching the bus . |
| 27 | The family had gathered in the kitchen for a late lunch made up of left-overs . |
| 28 | By midday , a crowd estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 had gathered in the grounds of Eglinton Castle . |
| 29 | The squadron had gathered in the ante-room to the dining-room for a drink before lunch . |
| 30 | Everyone but Nathan had gathered in the canteen that morning and Roirbak , when he joined them , was aware of a certain tension indicating no one dared think the worst was over . |