Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Hall , safety and training officer at Redpath Offshore , said he found it difficult to explain why Mr Eaton had placed himself under the pipe . |
| 2 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 3 | There could be no doubt that by competing with the plaintiffs both as regards supplies and customers he had placed himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interest and duty . |
| 4 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 5 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 6 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |
| 7 | Suu Kyi had led the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) to a landslide election victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ] , but the country 's ruling military junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , which had placed her under house arrest in mid-1989 , prevented the party from forming a government . |
| 8 | Ironically it seemed now that flight had placed her in far greater danger than staying put could ever have done . |
| 9 | There was much he was not aware of in security operations , but the general had placed him in charge of the inquiry . |
| 10 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 11 | Last year we cracked an ex-display tank in this office — that was an adequate 6mm three footer and we had placed it on polystyrene tiles on top of two filing cabinets which were less than even . |
| 12 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 13 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 14 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 15 | Lifting her bag from the shelf , she slung the strap over her shoulder and turned to go , only to find that the woman had placed herself between her and the door . |
| 16 | She showed me the marks on the back of her knuckles and her wrist where that bitch had walloped her with a rod of some sort , right from the first day . ’ |
| 17 | A strange fierce joy had filled him after that , and he had n't really heard anything Ashton or Smith had said to him . |
| 18 | The excitement of this first fall of rain had filled her with a desire that things should be different , that she should be happy again . |
| 19 | Her feelings on that day had been so overpowering , had filled her with such sharp pleasure that always she hoped that their ghosts must still be lingering among the leaves . |
| 20 | She 'd felt a warmth go through her , as though he 'd reached out and touched her , an imaginary touch that had filled her with excitement . |
| 21 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 22 | His mouth felt dry , as if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 23 | It was if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 24 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 25 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 26 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 27 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 28 | Had hated her at sight . |
| 29 | They had given their only child the benefit of the doubt , but Paige had known , and Lori had hated her for knowing — and for not telling tales . |
| 30 | For instance , in an 1897 novel , The Typewriter Girl , the heroine comments on finding a job : ‘ I had justified myself before the impartial tribunal of political economy … |