Example sentences of "had [vb pp] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She wondered , laughing as Sabina jogged her , for she had halted in a daydream , what it would be like to encourage him , to overcome the scruples he so kindly showed by not exploring her body . |
| 7 | This trend had culminated in a loss of A$1,300 million ( approximately US$1,020 million ) by Tricontinental , the merchant banking arm of the State Bank of Victoria , through which Cain had attempted to promote industrial regeneration within the state . |
| 8 | Recent internal disagreements within the MNR had culminated in a death threat which Lozada reportedly received , at gunpoint , from congressional deputy Ciro Humboldt Barrero after a turbulent meeting of MNR leaders in the southern city of Sucre , the official capital . |
| 9 | A leak had developed in a portion of the roof above the flies ; there was still a slight pinking of waterdrops splattering behind the flats of the living-room set . |
| 10 | As quick as a flash , Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl 's head and shoulders , yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides . |
| 11 | A man had hidden in a window seat ; his enemies had not looked for him there because on top of the seat , someone had laid a sleeping child . |
| 12 | Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The report suggested that corruption had reached such a point that several officers had connived in a plot to topple the government in the early 1980s . |
| 15 | " We provide extra food and drink so that your great-grandfather can bring the spirits of other famous patriots and scholars to join our celebration , " her mother had explained in a whisper , and Lan , remembering this , found herself peering apprehensively at the spare chopsticks to see if any of them showed signs of moving . |
| 16 | Diana was flattered , flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior . |
| 17 | He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie . |
| 18 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 19 | The two-layered paper had spilled in a heap off the back of the printer . |
| 20 | He escaped in his pyjamas , and the plaster of Paris on his leg was sopping wet where he had fallen in a ditch , but he was in good spirits . |
| 21 | Once when I had thought Nour loved me I had delighted in a garden full of roses surrounding a villa where his aunts lived . |
| 22 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 23 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 24 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 25 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 26 | It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others . |
| 27 | His loyalty had come in a rush , like a drug , he had no doubts about which side he was on . |
| 28 | The helmsboy then engaged full ahead , performed two pirouettes , and thundered back the way he had come in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke and coloured speech . |
| 29 | In earlier moments of crisis on this memorable afternoon , he had responded in a manner which shamed the doubters . |
| 30 | The December turnout was only 3,700,000 , of 14,200,000 eligible voters , or little more than half the number who had voted in a referendum in May in favour of the establishment of the Assembly [ see p. 37450 ] . |