Example sentences of "had [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although from her upbringing it might have been thought that ‘ visiting the sick ’ would be a part of her daily life she had hardly ever — thanks to the Welfare State — had to perform this duty , and then only with her mother or father . |
| 2 | A shipload of food and medical aid from Italy reached Albania on March 19 , one day after the Albanian government had placed all food distribution in the country under police control in an attempt to counteract speculation . |
| 3 | She had placed enough mines . |
| 4 | Beside him , against the wall , he had placed those things he had seen himself use in the dream — a blanket and his old porcelain water-bottle . |
| 5 | She sensed his fear and , perceiving that he had placed this construction upon their encounter , pressed herself closer to the soft protuberance of his cock , touching his balls with her cheeks , one side and then the other , wheedling the while . |
| 6 | The case , heard in February 1929 , revealed that , since his association with Arsenal began in 1910 , Sir Henry had placed some £15,000 of his own money at the club 's disposal ( a bounty which could explain his campaign against rising transfer fees ) . |
| 7 | Presumably Miss Philimore had placed some sort of order before she left , forgetting that she would no longer be around to take delivery . |
| 8 | Now Fincara had filled that space , brought her spells into the centre of his mind , and he was aware of nothing else . |
| 9 | When he had filled that side , he turned the page over and continued to make notes , completely disregarding the pencil sketch that had been begun . |
| 10 | But within a fortnight the Indian Round Table Conference had opened in London , and the second fissiparous issue had filled any gap left by the temporary subsidence of the first . |
| 11 | Before she could protest , he had filled both glasses . |
| 12 | But he seemed anxious to show me his own poetry , with which he had filled several notebooks . |
| 13 | Long years of poverty had filled those words with a special resonance ; to use them now brought out again the risk-all abandon of those times , before responsibility had taught her caution . |
| 14 | She stared , fascinated by the carpets on the floor and the brightly painted candles , and wondered why the Catholics lit candles too if both sides had hated each other as much as they had in her school history books . |
| 15 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 16 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 17 | The Far Eastern Economic Review reported on Sept. 28 that Myanma sources and diplomatic observers had dismissed these allegations as an attempt to discredit the NLD and as an attempt to bolster unity in the Army which had fought the insurgent CPB for many years . |
| 18 | Recently he had formed another attachment , one which he valued more . |
| 19 | ( The sanctions committee had referred this issue to the Security Council on Sept. 12 after exploring ways of specifying whether food needs in iraq should be categorized as humanitarian . |
| 20 | A German Ambassador once remarked to the author at a conference that he had referred several times to his constituents , ‘ whereas we in Germany believe in institutions ’ . |
| 21 | The professor had treated this book with proper severity , and Himmler wanted me to dispose once and for all of this type of scientific mischief-making . |
| 22 | Alec Reid had treated several cases of polio during my first year or so in Koraloona , but there were never any signs of an epidemic . |
| 23 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 24 | It had to carry enough fuel for over 20 hours airborne . |
| 25 | The affronted lover tried to interrupt , to insist that Gaby was under his protection and that the arrangement was impossible , but Modigliani insisted that he had painted several portraits of Madame in the nude that would be worth ‘ thousands ’ one day and pressed one on her luckless lover . |
| 26 | If the clergy had gained — and continuing practice had yet to confirm this — the right to be taxed in their own assemblies rather than in parliament , they had exposed those gatherings to royal attention , intervention and considerable control . |
| 27 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
| 28 | Promises of more schools and hospitals were regarded sceptically by peasants whom bitter experience had taught that talk of better times always meant worse . |
| 29 | Their knowledge of society had taught these men that there was a huge audience that wanted to laugh and that comedians had to strain every nerve and to try every joke in order to release that laughter . |
| 30 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |