Example sentences of "had [vb pp] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’ |
| 2 | Dorothy 's husband had plumbed in the second-hand washing machine for her , and refused to accept money , taken all Saturday morning doing it . |
| 3 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 4 | The Graduate would be financed and released by Embassy Pictures , the company Joseph E. Levine had formed in the late fifties to exploit cheap European spectacles such as the Hercules films with muscle-man Steve Reeves , which brought in millions of dollars . |
| 5 | It was Eric 's turn next : his presenter appeared in jogging track suit , and false beard , and needed to do little more than puff heavily round the stage several times intoning ‘ no , not on the roof , no , not on the roof , to bring the house down , rousing laughter even from those who did not know that these were the mysterious words that the Warden had uttered in a loud cry when abruptly roused from slumber during a session of group therapy . |
| 6 | ‘ I must talk to you ! ’ he had uttered in an urgent undervoice . |
| 7 | This she had painted in a warm red tone , which complemented the dark wood and brass handles of her grandfather 's furniture . |
| 8 | Rain was impressed by the amount of information he had gathered in a short time . |
| 9 | There were reports in mid-February that leaders from the 17-party Joint Action Committee of the Iraqi Opposition ( JACIO ) established in Damascus in December 1990 [ see p. 37927 ] and the pro-Western Free Iraq Council ( FIC ) formed in London on Feb. 9 , had gathered in the Saudi capital , Riyadh , to discuss the formation of a government-in-exile . |
| 10 | But word got around and by 9am some 30 anglers had gathered in the Little Chef at Bath , prompting a sweepstake on the local Bristol Avon . |
| 11 | Fry noted that night visits had trebled in the seven years from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 12 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 13 | This trend had culminated in a joint communiqué issued at the UN on Sept. 30 , in which South Korea and the Soviet Union had announced their intention to establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level with immediate effect . |
| 14 | As Simon himself acknowledged , English public health administration had developed in a piecemeal and ad hoc fashion for much of the early nineteenth century , with national supervision divided between his own Privy Council Medical Office and the Poor Law Board . |
| 15 | The idea of a holiday in the north-west of the Iberian peninsula had developed in the preceding six months . |
| 16 | Yet even as these deliberations were going on in Washington , a new Sino-American crisis had developed in the Far East . |
| 17 | By the mid-1920s they no longer had the harsh appearance that they had developed in the immediate pre-war years … |
| 18 | On this ground , Ritschl was critical of much previous theology , and especially of the way the doctrine of the person of Christ had developed in the early centuries . |
| 19 | Kissinger even hoped to make 1973 the ‘ Year of Europe ’ in which the Atlantic alliance could be restored to full health , ending the distrust between America and Europe which had developed in the 1960s . |
| 20 | Stenhouse 's proposal was in marked contrast , not only to Hoyle 's , but , for different reasons , to the tradition of curriculum development that had developed in the 1960s , both in the UK and the USA . |
| 21 | The many Victorian great houses had developed in the contrary direction , separating themselves progressively from the ‘ other nation ’ on whose labours they depended . |
| 22 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |
| 23 | The Chief Officer needed to contribute to this work and to help the Council maintain the influence in higher education it had developed in the previous six years , and to develop public awareness of the Council 's aims and activities . |
| 24 | Berkeley 's philosophy marks the turn of the tide against the world picture which had developed in the seventeenth century , and which had reached one of its classical expositions in Locke 's Essay . |
| 25 | Sheila Cunningham , of Norfolk North , said the present system was unfair and perpetuated the elective dictatorship which had developed in the 1980s . |
| 26 | Mills , like Marxists , also presented an historical account of the transformation of power in American society to explain how and why it was that a new power elite had developed in the post-war world . |
| 27 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 28 | When he had left , he had loved them desperately , and had hidden in the stifling furnace of his cabin for days , weeping himself dry . |
| 29 | Ginny had hidden in the big cupboard in the dining room . |
| 30 | Julie smiled , remembering the times she and her friends had hidden in the old shed during hilarious games of hide and seek and sardines . |