Example sentences of "had [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His solemn burial was at Constantinople alongside the cenotaphs of the twelve apostles which he had placed in the church of the apostles on the city 's highest hill . |
| 2 | Sendero Luminoso had threatened to kill all candidates as well as those voting in the municipal elections , and 200 mayoral candidates and about 300 other candidates had withdrawn in the areas under states of emergency [ for which see pp. 36972 ; 37065 ] . |
| 3 | Dorothy 's husband had plumbed in the second-hand washing machine for her , and refused to accept money , taken all Saturday morning doing it . |
| 4 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 5 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 6 | His feet splashed in the pools that had formed in the night . |
| 7 | B. Layers of peat had formed in the marshes and between them there were layers of mud or silt . |
| 8 | The Graduate would be financed and released by Embassy Pictures , the company Joseph E. Levine had formed in the late fifties to exploit cheap European spectacles such as the Hercules films with muscle-man Steve Reeves , which brought in millions of dollars . |
| 9 | This opinion was consistent with the opinion which Mr. Tinker had formed while the deceased was at Samuel Saye House and that Dr. Rao had formed in the period before the deceased 's death . |
| 10 | The cyclone in late April had formed in the Bay of Bengal and brought winds of up to 145 mph . |
| 11 | He would recall some prostitute he had frequented in the rue de la Cigogne : ‘ I fired five shots into her , ’ he would boast to me . |
| 12 | But he had none of the grandiloquence of Vasco Núñez ; he uttered none of the proud formulae Balboa had uttered in the Gulf of San Migud . |
| 13 | If Earl Eric was in England at this time , it may increase the likelihood that Swegen was also , for the two had collaborated in the defeat of Olaf Tryggvason , and Eric later fought for Cnut and was given the earldom of Northumbria . |
| 14 | These symptoms were present most of the time , but became much worse if Sheila drove the car , used certain aerosol sprays , or had to sit in the same room as someone wearing perfume or aftershave . |
| 15 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 16 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 17 | The Burrows children were expected to be examples to the other youngsters in the corps , and had to sit in the front seats of any hall they attended , where Captain Burrows could keep his eagle eye on them . |
| 18 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 19 | Beneath the lid was enacted , in Boucheresque eighteenth-century terms , exactly the same scene as some ancient Greek had painted in the kylix two thousand years before . |
| 20 | The continual slamming of the seas under the bridge-deck beat at them , fountaining up through the manhole Trent had unscrewed in the saloon deck . |
| 21 | Michael Walsh had taught in the school for six years , and had been involved in meetings in the Humanities department when the idea was discussed : |
| 22 | But word got around and by 9am some 30 anglers had gathered in the Little Chef at Bath , prompting a sweepstake on the local Bristol Avon . |
| 23 | Everyone but Nathan had gathered in the canteen that morning and Roirbak , when he joined them , was aware of a certain tension indicating no one dared think the worst was over . |
| 24 | Several hundred protesters had gathered in the city , and held a rally earlier in the day . |
| 25 | The young Palestinian men who had gathered in the room to hear her story sat quietly , knowing that she would finish her grief and that this was a ritual even if it was a deeply felt one . |
| 26 | By midday , a crowd estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 had gathered in the grounds of Eglinton Castle . |
| 27 | When at last they sat down to eat , a small crowd of children had gathered in the doorway , drawn from their own homes by the smell of puris frying , knowing from this that today was a special occasion . |
| 28 | A knot of dark-suited Garrick members had gathered in the hall and were muttering anxiously . |
| 29 | When everyone had gathered in the garden , Sergeant joined them and said , ‘ Welcome , everyone ! ’ |
| 30 | A small crowd had gathered in the piazza as the morning advanced and people came out to buy bread or eat a hurried breakfast in the bar before catching the bus . |