Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident , which did not result in casualties , came only hours after the South Korean government had placed its armed force on heightened alert in response to the attempted coup in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Claiming to have uncovered details of plans for an imminent military coup , the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) stated on Nov. 27 that it had placed its remaining guerrilla forces ( an estimated 3,000 not yet demobilized ) on full alert . |
| 3 | She was just crossing the square , and wondering where in her portmanteau she had placed her woollen shawl , when she became aware of footsteps that were not her own . |
| 4 | Cromwell 's men were searching a Cavalier household ; the man had hidden in a window-seat and on top of it his wife had placed their sleeping child . |
| 5 | Six hours from the start , in a wide lush valley , Fusil had placed his first checkpoint . |
| 6 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 7 | Her mother had filled her early childhood with wonderful memories of picnics and riding ponies and of a stream of smiling schoolfriends who were always made welcome , but it was her father to whom she 'd felt closest . |
| 8 | Between 1870 and 1880 the Jesuits had been expelled from Germany , religious orders dissolved , the State had interfered with the discipline of the clergy , civil marriage had been made obligatory and Prussia had withdrawn its financial support from Catholic churches . |
| 9 | A visionary at Much Wenlock , on the testimony of Boniface , proclaimed in Ceolred 's lifetime that the angels surrounding him had withdrawn their protective shield and abandoned him to demons because of the multitude of crimes he had committed . |
| 10 | In the early years of the nineteenth century , the classical had sustained its peaceful co-existence with the Gothic and a variety of other styles , largely because each house remained at heart Palladian , assuming alternatives merely as decoration . |
| 11 | The blazer badge reinforced the ‘ capture of bodies ’ philosophy which had sustained our earlier lives , but was created at the same time that I was compiling a paper for presentation at the national BMA police surgeons ' conference . |
| 12 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 13 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 14 | Nigel dared to disagree with her — he had hated his own school and he thought he divined Gina 's reason for wanting Anthony out of the way . |
| 15 | For an instant Dougal wondered wildly if Henry had guessed his real purpose . |
| 16 | Before , it had justified their arbitrary rule . |
| 17 | Although Duke had dismissed his past association with the racist Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups as a " youthful indiscretion " , as recently as 1988 he had contested the presidential elections as the nominee of the Populist Party — a known repository of neo-Nazis and former Klansmen — on an openly racist and anti-Semitic platform . |
| 18 | By the following day up to 50,000 Moldavians , some armed , were blockading the Gagauz districts , where the Gagauzes in turn had formed their own defence force . |
| 19 | She squinted in bewilderment at the ten or so boarders who had formed her little band of helpers . |
| 20 | Because there had been a recent spate of thefts from boats in the area the Club had formed its own teams of vigilantes who patrolled the moorings and by chance one of these noted down the camper 's registration number . |
| 21 | Livingstone had formed his political views during the ‘ new left ’ upheavals of the late 1960s . |
| 22 | William Clarke of Nottingham had formed his All-England team , a sort of travelling circus of the top players in 1846 . |
| 23 | He had formed his own view of Jake although Harry had not coloured it by any comments other than the barest fact . |
| 24 | By this time Odinga had formed his own party , the KPU ( Kenya People 's Union ) , but following an incident in Kenyatta 's presence at Kisumu he was jailed in October 1969 and the KPU banned . |
| 25 | They all asked whether he played for the Beatles or the Stones , and were much amused to hear he had formed his own pop group with some of his fellow junior students . |
| 26 | Under the old regime , the Central Authority had treated their financial policy as a quite separate exercise having no relationship to their investment policy . |
| 27 | Party managers arrived at that conclusion because that is the way they had treated their own party for the past eight years . |
| 28 | ‘ I told them you could be quite helpful because you knew someone who had traced her natural mother . ’ |
| 29 | He had painted his best friend and his wife and Jenna could n't fault it . |
| 30 | He preferred not to think that everyone knew the artist had painted his best-known work from the window overlooking Dzerjhinsky Square . |