Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 16 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 17 | His hair had formed itself into an interesting anthill kind of a shape though . |
| 18 | Our relationship had formed itself by an aggregation of layers . |
| 19 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 20 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 21 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 22 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 23 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 24 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 25 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October . |
| 28 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 29 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 30 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |