Example sentences of "had [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The reason was that the employer had taken no effective steps to end the practice and yet suddenly , and without proper warning , had treated it as a sufficient ground for dismissal . |
| 4 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 7 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 10 | They had relayed it through the Royalbion representative there , Jim Fletcher . |
| 11 | Addressing a press conference on June 23 , French Finance Minister Pierre Bérégovoy said that while some countries favoured associate membership for the Soviet Union , others had regarded it as a transitional status . |
| 12 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 13 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 14 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 17 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 18 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 19 | When his caddie had fished the ball out and he had dropped it behind the stream he was facing his fifth shot . |
| 20 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 21 | He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia . |
| 22 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 23 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 24 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 25 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |
| 26 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 27 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 28 | The Robemaker had not closed the door , but he had pushed it to a little . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |