Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Officers had placed a metal colander on the head of a suspect and attached the colander to the copier with metal wires . |
| 6 | It was Britain more than any other country which had placed a stamp on all European discussions about integration since the war . |
| 7 | On the eve of poll he had placed a £5 bet at 16–1 with a Bristol bookmaker that the Tories would win an overall majority of between 20 and 25 seats . |
| 8 | When he had returned home that day , after leaving Franco , Maria Filippa had placed a dish on the table , filled with warm fresh taralli . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He mentioned a lake not far away , at the centre of which a farmer had placed a scarecrow . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Aileen Stewart had placed an eighteen-inch pie in the very centre of the board ; its summit gleamed yellow with a basting of egg . |
| 15 | Venice had placed an embargo on Bosphorus trade and was hesitant even over her Alexandria fleet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If I had filled a tanker I would n't have been prosecuted . ’ |
| 18 | She had filled a cup for herself , but made no attempt to drink . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had filled an emptiness in his life and he knew that he would be devastated if she left now . |
| 21 | Hotspur had withdrawn a step or two towards the door when he turned again to look at Iago . |
| 22 | Sophia married Ernst August of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1629–1698 ) in 1658 , after his elder brother had withdrawn an offer . |
| 23 | In his budget speech Neville Chamberlain had justified a £10 increase in the tax allowance for second and subsequent children by saying that he saw a time not too far distant ‘ when countries of the British Empire will be crying out for more citizens of the right breed , and when we in this country shall not be able to supply the demand . |
| 24 | Kabul Radio announced on June 21 that President Najibullah had dismissed a Deputy Prime Minister , Mahmud Barialay . |
| 25 | Allied controls had been reduced and the Constitutional Court had dismissed an SPD claim that German membership of a European Army was uncon-stitutional . |
| 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 . |