Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 2 | This was eventually made doubly plain when each member of my crew took it in turn to brief me on his particular duties , and I in turn had to perform in his position . |
| 3 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 4 | He had trawled for views and ideas , as has become his method . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're too hot , ’ continued Jenny , lifting the coat Billie had placed for extra warmth on her bed . |
| 6 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |
| 7 | In anticipation of an army coup , Croatia and Slovenia had placed on alert the security forces under their control — the police and the newly formed gendarmerie , the so-called specijalci . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | W.H. Smith owed no small part of his fortune to the stalls he had placed on every station platform , many of which not only offered a full range of books and papers but operated lending libraries . |
| 11 | An independent inquiry carried out for the DTI by Sir Godfrey le Quesne QC in 1989 emphasised the reliance the DTI had placed on Spicers ' opinion in granting BC a licence in 1985 . |
| 12 | Parsons did not substantially alter this view , and as a result lost the stress Freud had placed on conflict . |
| 13 | ‘ Moreover , on general principles , it would in my judgment be a plain interference with or usurpation of an owner 's rights by the customer if he were to remove a label which the owner had placed on goods or put another label on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He gave a little laugh and tightened the hand he had placed on her arm — Sally-Anne had not offered to take his ; that was not a servant 's right . |
| 16 | She eased herself into a sitting position and groped for the heavy torch she had placed on the shelf by her bunk . |
| 17 | He was hoping to hit bottles he had placed on the roof of the garage opposite . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She was still striving to get herself back together when , to her astonishment , ignoring the file she had placed on his desk , ‘ Vanity being what it is , ’ he commented , ‘ I thought contact lenses were all the go now ? ’ |
| 20 | And she leaned forward , pulled his hands away from his face , placed her mouth on his in a kiss of such passion that they drowned in it , and then , with a sudden twist , she was away from him , out of the arms he had placed about her , running down the corridor towards the outer door . |
| 21 | Having finished his dinner the candidate retired to the spick and span little room no bigger than a cubbyhole they had placed at his disposal and , when he had put his thoughts and his speeches in good order , stepped out for a breath of air , a short stroll which led him — as he had known it would — to the newly painted door of Odette Adeane . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That sudden movement , slight as it was , jerked away the stone which Chignell had placed behind one of the wheels . |
| 26 | As she returned downstairs at her home in Pym Street , South Bank , Middlesbrough , a table top which the babies ' dad , Brian , had placed behind the front room door fell over trapping her . |
| 27 | She gazed at the new arrangement , absent-mindedly reached for the tea Julia had placed near her elbow and drank . |
| 28 | A strange setting for the Tunstall heiress , all this — ’ And he swept his hand around the shabby room , noting the protective arm which Dr Neil had placed around Sally-Anne 's shoulders . |
| 29 | Claudia demanded , her resentment bursting the bonds she had placed upon it . |
| 30 | 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 . |