Example sentences of "had [verb] in the [noun sg] " 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 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 3 | His feet splashed in the pools that had formed in the night . |
| 4 | The cyclone in late April had formed in the Bay of Bengal and brought winds of up to 145 mph . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 10 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 11 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 : |
| 15 | A knot of dark-suited Garrick members had gathered in the hall and were muttering anxiously . |
| 16 | In the port of Dürres on March 29 police again unsuccessfully attempted to disperse a crowd which had gathered in the hope of emigrating . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The family had gathered in the kitchen for a late lunch made up of left-overs . |
| 19 | The squadron had gathered in the ante-room to the dining-room for a drink before lunch . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When everyone had gathered in the garden , Sergeant joined them and said , ‘ Welcome , everyone ! ’ |
| 22 | The young Palestinian men who had gathered in the room to hear her story sat quietly , knowing that she would finish her grief and that this was a ritual even if it was a deeply felt one . |
| 23 | When at last they sat down to eat , a small crowd of children had gathered in the doorway , drawn from their own homes by the smell of puris frying , knowing from this that today was a special occasion . |
| 24 | Then , slightly bemused , he lifted his head and stared round at the cheering crowd that had gathered in the doorway . |
| 25 | Several hundred protesters had gathered in the city , and held a rally earlier in the day . |
| 26 | In contrast to the laissez-faire attitude towards labour disputes displayed by the Reagan administration , President George Bush 's Secretary of Labour , Elizabeth Dole , had intervened in the dispute in October 1989 when she appointed Usery ( himself a former Labour Secretary ) as mediator . |
| 27 | Further , he became aware that the district has incurred a financial loss on most of the courses it had arranged in the county : in 1936–37 for example the seven courses it provided had led to an aggregated deficit of £92 for the year . |
| 28 | He had seen it too in the mass he had witnessed in the church of Gesù Nuovo . |
| 29 | Wyn smiled , perhaps remembering those tales himself , or some connection with them that he had witnessed in the wood . |
| 30 | So he had to wait in the house and er now it 's bed time now . |