Example sentences of "had [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of March , after five months of operation , Springboard had placed 3,000 people in work , and , despite the recession , had handled over 200 vacancies a week . |
| 2 | He had a wire basket in his left hand , in which he had placed two tins of pineapple cubes . |
| 3 | He would know I had placed two packets there inside . |
| 4 | Each platoon had placed two men on guard duty , with orders to change them every two hours , to ensure that no one went without rest . |
| 5 | The march began after several thousand people had filled four churches to overflowing in the centre of Leipzig , for a special service of ‘ prayers for peace ’ . |
| 6 | He told how Stephen began draining petrol from the car , but when he had filled two plastic bowls petrol was still flowing . |
| 7 | The jars had been recycled at last ; Caro 's tomatoes had ripened all at once , last September , and she and Bryony had filled sixteen jars with chutney . |
| 8 | Her studies were remarkable ; as a young woman Madame had filled eighteen notebooks with summaries of these women 's careers , reading them very literally as sources of practical advice , in much the same way as she had taught herself to understand stock management and how to do her own accounts . |
| 9 | It was revealed on July 25 that Fuji Bank , the country 's fourth-largest commercial bank , had dismissed four employees at the centre of an illegal loans scheme using forged deposit certificates worth 260,000 million yen ( about $2,000 million ) . |
| 10 | In February 1991 Civic Forum had formed two parties , Civic Democratic Party and Civic Movement [ see p. 38017-18 ] . |
| 11 | But they did not know that in the beginning , as Mrs Irving expatiated in her cracked and gracious voice on the high brick wall which dated from the Civil War , and earlier still , which had formed one boundary of General Fairfax 's lands when Putney was a separate village , when Cromwell 's Trained Bands assembled there , when the Putney Debates on liberty of conscience were held in St Mary 's Church on the bridge . |
| 12 | An appeal to the principles of non-alignment had formed one strand in the Soviet strategy of base denial . |
| 13 | These centres had treated 2490 patients with chronic viral hepatitis with interferon alfa . |
| 14 | Peru 's medical services have coped valiantly : untreated cholera can kill up to half of those infected , and the hospitals had treated 22,500 people for the disease . |
| 15 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 16 | A self-portrait from the period has the same decided , serene expression as one he had painted 18 years earlier , but his eyes and hair are engulfed in flames , his face is distorted . |
| 17 | The abolition of Pomgol was greeted with so many protests from the affected areas of Russia that Kalinin had to issue two statements in which he tried to show the stricken population that it had not been abandoned by the government . |
| 18 | Apart from his own studies , Tetsu teaches English and mathematics to children ; he had taught eight hours a week over the past year to finance this , his first trip outside his homeland . |
| 19 | He had been to the Top Rank entertainment centre in Reading when all the scientists had gathered one evening to formulate a demand for a 40 per cent pay rise . |
| 20 | Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand . |
| 21 | The party won its right to a place on the ballot after it had gathered 96,000 signatures on a petition . |
| 22 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 23 | The FT-SE 100-Share Index had plunged 41 points by late afternoon , before staging a slight recovery to close down 36.2 on the day at 2,863.9 . |
| 24 | James and Pauline MacGregor of Mulbarton , Norfolk , had to drive 180 miles from Auxerre to Lyon before being freed unharmed . |
| 25 | Just for one , for one signature you had to drive twenty miles |
| 26 | For one thing , a much smaller house , because after all , C. Mellings , Printers and Stationers had to support two establishments ; Cedric 's and Jane 's house did not have that elusive but unmistakable atmosphere of ease , of success . |
| 27 | The daughter of an Indian labourer , Mrs Swami was deserted by her husband and had to support four children on her own . |
| 28 | I had to wait two hours before seeing him as he was in conference with a producer . |
| 29 | That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt . |
| 30 | Bob Swatman , 73 , branch chairman , of Low Lane , Middlesbrough , had to wait 17 hours on the beach before he was eventually evacuated with 65 others by a fishing boat which landed at Margate Pier . |