Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debra Busuttil will never have another baby because after labour was induced for the dead child doctors had to perform a life-saving hysterectomy . |
| 2 | Yolland saw that the BCR had installed a turntable at Stretford Bridge , constructed a platform and upon it had placed a temporary station — presumably a building of some sort . |
| 3 | In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 . |
| 4 | George Clifford , whom Miller met in Holland , had placed a brilliant young Swede , Carl Linnaeus in charge of his large garden and menagerie at De Hartekamp . |
| 5 | The bogus golfers had placed a triangular support under the open end of the decapitated golf-bag and had hammered a notched support into the grout at its base , which still rested on the trolley . |
| 6 | In my self-conscious zeal to improve myself , I had placed a regular order for the London Times , not a paper normally stocked by that small newsagent . |
| 7 | The court heard he had placed the original bet for a £1 stake and paid 10p tax at Ladbrokes in his home town . |
| 8 | Too much emphasis had been placed upon the strengthening of security by military rather than political means , and this had placed an undue burden on the domestic economy . |
| 9 | The US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , said on Oct. 13 , 1989 , that the technology had placed an effective anti-missile system within US reach and described it as " the single most important military bequest this generation could make to the future " . |
| 10 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 11 | Ten minutes afterwards she had filled every available space on the card with news of her journey and her impressions of beautiful Mariánské Láznë , so that when it came to penning a signature there was barely any room for her own name , let alone room to add Cara 's . |
| 12 | All that the Europeans had to do was defeat the existing ruler and proclaim that their own ruler had filled the vacant throne . |
| 13 | And , to add the final touch , Phillips 's insight had filled the only remaining gap by proposing , albeit in skeletal form , an empirical model of inflation which was to be theoretically fleshed out by Lipsey . |
| 14 | Mr Ashdown , who loves to tell us that his campaign alone concentrates on ‘ the real issues ’ , had filled the entire broadcast with pictures of himself . |
| 15 | Lanfranc himself was only partly converted , and , even in his last days , he was still giving quantities of the bodies of his predecessors , which had filled the old church before the fire of 1067 , to his new foundation of canons outside the walls of the city . |
| 16 | Sergio and Bacco from 1206 : he had filled the important office of papal chamberlain . |
| 17 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 18 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 19 | George Swinson , a sixty-five-year-old sailor , had sustained a serious accident a year previously when he fell from the upper yard of a ship at Portland , Oregon . |
| 20 | She had sustained a slight scratch on her neck . |
| 21 | The consultant believed Mark had been deliberately shaken , although there was no evidence of bruising or fractures , and he had sustained no lasting damage . |
| 22 | In Larger , a three-year sentence for marital rape was reduced to 18 months on the ground that the victim had sustained no physical or psychological damage . |
| 23 | As already stated , the clergy had sustained the catholic — nationalist populace over centuries of oppression . |
| 24 | In short , quite apart from economic or foreign policy considerations , the social momentum which had sustained the British throughout their difficult experiences since 1945 was not being maintained . |
| 25 | With the establishment of colonies as opposed to trading posts , came the need for production and exports over and above what had sustained the earlier economic relationships between the West and the tropics . |
| 26 | The treatment meted out was degrading and she had hated the middle classes ever after . |
| 27 | She had hated the one double date Antonia had talked her into , hated the squirming disaster of the back seat of the car , the searching hands , the prescribed wet goodnight kiss . |
| 28 | As a child Vidor had hated the Military Academy at San Antonio and he very much wanted to make ‘ an honest war picture ’ that would correct the excessive jingoism of the normal Hollywood war film . |
| 29 | Their mother had hated the very thought of anything that could lessen the love between her and Dana , and she had taught her that the bond between them was only imagination on Claudia 's part . |
| 30 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |