Example sentences of "had [vb pp] 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 | Air Marshal Sibun , Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force , announced on Oct. 18 that Indonesia had placed an order for 24 Hawk jet fighters from the United Kingdom at a reported purchase price of US$500 million . |
| 9 | Venice had placed an embargo on Bosphorus trade and was hesitant even over her Alexandria fleet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had filled a cup for herself , but made no attempt to drink . |
| 12 | She had filled an emptiness in his life and he knew that he would be devastated if she left now . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Gillespie was jealous and angry because his wife Kay , 28 , had formed a relationship with another man . |
| 15 | And now Sutton had formed a coterie of cronies round him and was appointing the wrong staff , which had to be stopped at once . |
| 16 | The fire had formed a bed of glowing ash , a core on which from time to time they threw a branch . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Another Nassauer battalion had formed a line to the right of the stream . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 25 | According to the report local militias dominated by Uzbek , Tajik and Shia Ismaeli ethnic groups had formed an alliance with local mujaheddin units ( including fighters commanded by Ahmed Shah Masud ) in late March , and together they had taken over control of the city from Pashtun units . |
| 26 | It so happened that at that time , apparently unknown to the mother , the father had formed an association with another woman , and , as a result , had become the father of that other woman 's child . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They had traced a relative of Miss Needham 's already , a Miss Frances Needham-Burrell . |
| 30 | They had traced a son of Ivan Makarov to Milan of all places . |