Example sentences of "had [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They had to perform a tracheotomy throat operation to aid his breathing . |
2 | Hogg explained : ‘ We had to perform a balancing act . |
3 | The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it . |
4 | Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable . |
5 | It claimed patients would have more choice over which hospital they went to , but in fact they would have less because they would have to go to the hospital with which their district health authority had placed a contract , he said . |
6 | By Nov. 20 Mahdi Mohammed was reported to be massing reinforcements in Warsheik , about 60 km north of Mogadishu , and had placed a satellite telephone call to the British Broadcasting Corporation denying that he had been ousted . |
7 | Officers had placed a metal colander on the head of a suspect and attached the colander to the copier with metal wires . |
8 | It was Britain more than any other country which had placed a stamp on all European discussions about integration since the war . |
9 | When he had returned home that day , after leaving Franco , Maria Filippa had placed a dish on the table , filled with warm fresh taralli . |
10 | But he was under a cloud anyway after his men failed to find who had placed a bomb in the office of Major-General Seri Temiyaveh , the head of the Bangkok police department 's crime-suppression division . |
11 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |
12 | But within the clearing it was warm and safe-feeling ; Clumhach had lit their usual fire , which was burning up brightly , and somebody had placed a cauldron of spiced wine to simmer over it . |
13 | He mentioned a lake not far away , at the centre of which a farmer had placed a scarecrow . |
14 | Air Marshal Sibun , Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force , announced on Oct. 18 that Indonesia had placed an order for 24 Hawk jet fighters from the United Kingdom at a reported purchase price of US$500 million . |
15 | Aileen Stewart had placed an eighteen-inch pie in the very centre of the board ; its summit gleamed yellow with a basting of egg . |
16 | Venice had placed an embargo on Bosphorus trade and was hesitant even over her Alexandria fleet . |
17 | Once she started writing her a letter and had filled a sheet of paper before she realized that Maggie could n't read so there was no sense in sending it . |
18 | If I had filled a tanker I would n't have been prosecuted . ’ |
19 | She had filled a cup for herself , but made no attempt to drink . |
20 | That evening , when Mrs Hollidaye crept into Dot 's bedroom to damp down the fire for the night and check that the guard was securely in place , she had filled a trug basket with garden produce . |
21 | She had filled an emptiness in his life and he knew that he would be devastated if she left now . |
22 | Hotspur had withdrawn a step or two towards the door when he turned again to look at Iago . |
23 | Sophia married Ernst August of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1629–1698 ) in 1658 , after his elder brother had withdrawn an offer . |
24 | It is not always easy to balance challenges and skills even when working with a single child on a relatively straightforward task ; for these class teachers working with mixed ability groups in settings where the normal practice was for several different tasks in different curriculum areas to be undertaken simultaneously , an adequate balance between challenges and skills throughout the group had to remain an aspiration rather than an achievement . |
25 | Kabul Radio announced on June 21 that President Najibullah had dismissed a Deputy Prime Minister , Mahmud Barialay . |
26 | The Labour Party was particularly critical of government policy in this area when it emerged after April 1 that Guys , the major London teaching hospital which had formed a trust with Lewisham , had made 600 redundancies and closed as many as 25 departments in a series of cost-cutting measures . |
27 | Would you believe it , the Africans there had formed a brass band and played all Irish tunes ! |
28 | FECCAS had formed a branch there and she helped organize women coffee harvesters . |
29 | No significant section of the marchers had formed a determination to defy the police , and the RUC , for its part , seems to have behaved in a generally good-natured way . |
30 | Gillespie was jealous and angry because his wife Kay , 28 , had formed a relationship with another man . |