Example sentences of "had [vb pp] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His mouth felt dry , as if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 7 | It was if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 8 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 9 | This huge increase caused concern among many deputies , but Pavlov had justified it by saying that it took account of forthcoming wholesale price rises and would actually represent a fall in real terms . |
| 10 | The reason was that the employer had taken no effective steps to end the practice and yet suddenly , and without proper warning , had treated it as a sufficient ground for dismissal . |
| 11 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 12 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 13 | Next second she had plunged it into them . |
| 14 | She has had hundreds of letters from adults sexually abused as children saying ‘ keep going , that they wished someone had diagnosed it in their childhood and describing the trauma they still suffer as adults even though to the outside world they are perfectly normal , respectable people . |
| 15 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 16 | The German scientist who around 1906 synthesized novocaine , the first non-addictive narcotic , had intended it to be used in major surgical procedures like amputation . |
| 17 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 18 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 19 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 20 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
| 21 | In the final hours of its life on Oct. 27 the 101st Congress passed an omnibus anti-crime package , but only after consultation between House and Senate representatives had stripped it of its most innovative and controversial measures . |
| 22 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 23 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 24 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 25 | She had hidden it under her hat , in her wealth of hair . |
| 26 | More than that , he felt insulted that they had hidden it from him . |
| 27 | He had thought no more about their excursion until Heather 's disappearance had recalled it to his mind — and been followed by Harry 's visit . |
| 28 | The great thunder which had propelled it towards their hiding-place below ground had somehow ebbed . |
| 29 | He had explained it to her , explained that there were great forces in the universe and that she was destined to serve them . |
| 30 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |