Example sentences of "had [vb pp] in [art] [noun] " 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 | Sendero Luminoso had threatened to kill all candidates as well as those voting in the municipal elections , and 200 mayoral candidates and about 300 other candidates had withdrawn in the areas under states of emergency [ for which see pp. 36972 ; 37065 ] . |
| 3 | ‘ It was painted throughout in a very unattractive shade of green , ’ she explains , ‘ and someone had plumbed in a WC there — what a bizarre thing to do . ’ |
| 4 | His feet splashed in the pools that had formed in the night . |
| 5 | The cyclone in late April had formed in the Bay of Bengal and brought winds of up to 145 mph . |
| 6 | B. Layers of peat had formed in the marshes and between them there were layers of mud or silt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had taught in a language school in Birmingham three mornings a week , a language school with a crèche , run by an enlightened Belgian woman , where Charlotte and Luke had gone until they were old enough for school . |
| 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 | As she was from a neighbouring Emirate which had a far less critical attitude toward the participation of women in education , Girl ‘ A ’ , it was discovered , had taught in an infant school after finishing her own schooling . |
| 16 | On 9 February 1956 a large group of Falangist students had gathered in a street in the university quarter of Madrid to commemorate the anniversary of the death , in 1934 , of one of the party 's first martyrs , the student Matias Montero . |
| 17 | A knot of dark-suited Garrick members had gathered in the hall and were muttering anxiously . |
| 18 | In the port of Dürres on March 29 police again unsuccessfully attempted to disperse a crowd which had gathered in the hope of emigrating . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The family had gathered in the kitchen for a late lunch made up of left-overs . |
| 21 | By midday , a crowd estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 had gathered in the grounds of Eglinton Castle . |
| 22 | The squadron had gathered in the ante-room to the dining-room for a drink before lunch . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When everyone had gathered in the garden , Sergeant joined them and said , ‘ Welcome , everyone ! ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Then , slightly bemused , he lifted his head and stared round at the cheering crowd that had gathered in the doorway . |
| 28 | Several hundred protesters had gathered in the city , and held a rally earlier in the day . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , there were widespread claims that , despite the government 's officially stated position of neutrality , the authorities had intervened in a variety of ways to support the candidacy of Kim Young Sam . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |