Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not pause for an answer , but bent down and snatched up a roll of paper which she had placed on the floor beside her when she first sat down . |
| 2 | That rainwater began to splash over the lenses of two of the torches that Jimmy had placed on the floor , creating a dancing and hellish kaleidoscope of light in the basement . |
| 3 | He was not very good about women 's clothes , only noticing whether they were becoming or not , but he recognised the quality of hers , and of the big leather handbag she had placed on the desk . |
| 4 | Lutyens had been struck by the emphasis she had placed on the word — and on her choice of it ; chaste was not a word Miss Jekyll usually employed when planning her gardens , and Lutyens bore it in mind throughout — hence the austerity to which he adhered on the terraces . |
| 5 | She eased herself into a sitting position and groped for the heavy torch she had placed on the shelf by her bunk . |
| 6 | He was hoping to hit bottles he had placed on the roof of the garage opposite . |
| 7 | One could ask , therefore , what role is ascribed in Formalist theory to the author , on whom biographical criticism had been based ; what had become of the reality which mimetic and historically orientated theories had placed at the centre of their concerns ; and finally what function it gives to thought , which had been the focus of philosophically biased criticisms . |
| 8 | He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave . |
| 9 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 10 | His solemn burial was at Constantinople alongside the cenotaphs of the twelve apostles which he had placed in the church of the apostles on the city 's highest hill . |
| 11 | He found the bag of bread and sultanas that Philip had filled for the pheasants . |
| 12 | Unless some merchants had withdrawn to the country , while continuing to manage their businesses there must have been significant investment in urban industry and commerce by the agricultural sector to maintain the balance between town and country in West Sussex . |
| 13 | When the ladies had withdrawn from the dinner-table , a conversation began about the Highlanders and their linen . |
| 14 | Once it had withdrawn from the BCOA , Pittston rejected the union contract and cut off health benefits to 1,500 widows , disabled miners , and pensioners . |
| 15 | Thus although the Bank of England has been obliged to restore the amount of cash it had withdrawn from the system , there has been an equal and opposite decrease in bills plus money at call held by the banks . |
| 16 | While they had been delayed by Duvall 's attack on Devlin , the thing had withdrawn from the basement window and lurched through the storm to the front of the building . |
| 17 | The doubts about Mr Lamont 's survival grew after it was disclosed that he had withdrawn from the panel on BBC TV 's Question Time programme tomorrow , with Mr Clarke replacing him . |
| 18 | When Carradine was shot down , Yggdrasil had withdrawn from the Dream , feeling the hurt a whale might feel from a tick . |
| 19 | On Oct. 5 the consortium led by the US Bell Atlantic Telephone Company had withdrawn from the purchase of Entelnor , which was eventually bought by a consortium formed by the Italian state telecommunications company STET SpA , France Cable and Radio ( part of French Telcomm ) , Perez Co ( a local oil , fishing and banking group ) and the US bankers J.P . |
| 20 | Once he had withdrawn from the scene their natural antipathy to landlords re-asserted itself . |
| 21 | The Moslem contingent had withdrawn from the EC talks on May 27 in protest at the attack on civilians in Sarajevo [ see p. 38919 ] . |
| 22 | Tim Waterstone declined to expound on the decision , beyond saying that Waterstones had withdrawn from the concession for commercial reasons and was now re-entering it for commercial reasons . |
| 23 | The Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) and the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 39103 ] agreed on Oct. 31 that they would unite after a referendum had been held and UN troops had withdrawn from the RSK . |
| 24 | Four other airlines , Alitalia ( Italy ) , American Airlines ( United States ) , KLM ( Netherlands ) , and Varig ( the main Brazilian carrier ) had withdrawn from the tender . |
| 25 | Though remarkably free from bitterness , the sergeant had withdrawn from the company of his friends to an alarming extent , even allowing for his love of literature . |
| 26 | The Iraqis , once they had withdrawn from the territory occupied in the early months , and to some extent even before this took place , constructed solid defensive positions , notably in the centre near Mandali and Khanaqin , and in the south close to Basrah , from which to fight off the anticipated Iranian offensives . |
| 27 | Vietnam had withdrawn from the organization in 1985 [ see p. 34651 ] following allegations first made in 1981 that thousands of Vietnamese had been sent to work in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to earn money for the repayment of Vietnamese government debts [ see pp. 31592-93 ; 32675 ] . |
| 28 | The regular Lebanese Army , under the command of Gen. Emile Lahud , began deploying throughout the whole of greater Beirut on Dec. 3 after various Lebanese militias had withdrawn from the area . |
| 29 | When pressed upon the issue , Hawke admitted the deal , but claimed that he had withdrawn from the arrangement in December 1990 after Keating had made " treacherous " remarks to the press about his leadership . |
| 30 | Bommai was elected to the post unopposed after Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav and S. Jaipal Reddy had withdrawn from the contest . |