Example sentences of "had [verb] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was eventually made doubly plain when each member of my crew took it in turn to brief me on his particular duties , and I in turn had to perform in his position . |
| 2 | The nominee of the more reformist social democratic faction , Georgi Pirinski , not only lost the leadership to Videnov ( who received 428 votes out of 608 on the second round after Lilov had withdrawn in his favour ) but failed to gain a seat on the supreme council , as did former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov . |
| 3 | She lay relaxed and dizzy on the bed , with the lingering sense of floating on top of the depths she had plumbed in her sleep . |
| 4 | This was a quite remarkable transformation in a man who only two years before had talked of dying : neither fame nor literary achievement had brought him any contentment , and in the end it was human love , the love that he had dismissed in his writings as the consolation only of ordinary men , that rescued him from a lifetime of misery and isolation . |
| 5 | The clerk could scarcely control his excitement , the dull image which had formed in his mind was beginning to take flesh . |
| 6 | Denning had referred in his report to their speeches in the House on 21 March 1963 and had commented that their remarks clearly imputed that Profumo had been responsible for the disappearance of Christine Keeler . |
| 7 | The operation to which Eliot had referred in his thank-you letter of 22 December was one for hernia , a trouble with which he had been afflicted from birth ( in fact he had a double hernia ) , and for which he was obliged to wear a truss . |
| 8 | The South 's initial response was to question the sincerity of Kim 's initiative and to dispute the existence of the " concrete wall " to which Kim had referred in his speech as " the symbol of national division " . |
| 9 | In contrast to some other material , my essay ‘ The Claims of Basic English ’ , to which I had referred in my letter of 18 July 1944 , had reached him ; and I was much cheered by the fact that he expressed unqualified approval for it . |
| 10 | The judge was only saved from this punishment by the intervention of St Praeiectus , whom he had honoured in his lifetime . |
| 11 | We each had to sit in our own chair . |
| 12 | Now she had to sit in his boat or he would be insulted and she was glad to rest . |
| 13 | The first part of the walk kicks off up a private road gliding beneath a fabulous railway viaduct , the very one from which I had gazed in my bike-less train down the length of Loch Shiel for the first time some ten years earlier . |
| 14 | In the first place it is noticeable that the great theme of his two Councils was the same as that of the Roman Council of 1059 , when the first effective legislation on clerical celibacy was initiated : it almost seems as if this subject had matured in his mind since that date ; certainly his early Deploratio virginitatis male amissae suggests that he may have had cause for thought on this subject . |
| 15 | Angrily , she dashed away the tears that had gathered in her eyes . |
| 16 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 17 | He told us how Christ had intervened in his life at his first visit to Caux . |
| 18 | It felt extraordinarily like the process of detumescence she had witnessed in her husband on many an occasion . |
| 19 | Checking the magazine of the Luger she had tucked in her waistband , she threw open the door and leapt in , the gun aimed unwaveringly at Froebe . |
| 20 | It was as if he had fainted in his sleep and the recovery from the faint made the level of sleep seem reality by comparison . |
| 21 | Rachaela had halted in her tracks . |
| 22 | They had halted in their walk . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not surprised ! ’ the other girl agreed sympathetically , having just heard from Laura the full story of her traumatic outing , which had culminated in her being arrested and ending up in the New York police station . |
| 24 | The fact was that , since the ancient and mysterious spell had squatted in his mind , he had been unable to remember even the simplest cantrap for , say , killing cockroaches or scratching the small of his back without using his hands . |
| 25 | Emanuel Shinwell 's rhetoric , and the arguments which Crosland himself had developed in his writing , could not be brushed aside . |
| 26 | But while one kept her talking , the other stole the five thousand pounds she had hidden in her wardrobe . |
| 27 | Someone somewhere must know what skeletons he had hidden in his locker . |
| 28 | Gionesca had been in the lavatory when parade was called , and had hidden in his room thinking his absence would not be noticed . |
| 29 | And Aunt Janice never did remember any more about whatever Rory had hidden in his later work . |
| 30 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |