Example sentences of "had [vb pp] in the " in BNC.

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1 Stewart had filled in the V62 form while standing in the queue moments before staging the hold-up , the jury heard .
2 Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim .
3 Whilst he was gone , Morse turned to the back of The Times and had filled in the whole of the bottom right-hand quarter of the crossword when Lewis returned two minutes later .
4 and and also not all erm there was reference made to , I ca n't remember which company it was , but somebody , you know , who was th not particularly literate had filled in the book .
5 J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue .
6 Early on , working in tandem with John Higgs , he had brought in the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and the Nature Conservancy Council to look at all the farms on the estate to make sure they were farming with conservation in mind .
7 Kalchu had brought in the two calves from their separate pen and they were pumping their mothers ' udders , bracing their hooves and thrusting with the whole length of their sketchy bodies .
8 A man had brought in the suitcases and stood them in the middle of the floor .
9 The detective-constable who had brought in the exhibits had said that the girl had been to a dance .
10 In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League .
11 A conference inspired by Beyond the Fragments , was held in Leeds in September 1980 — the first major Right-On gathering after the election which had ushered in the then relatively unknown doctrine of Thatcherism .
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