Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | had to perform them , it had a remedy over and against its assignee by an express covenant for indemnity contained in the assignment to Mr. Mahmoud in 1986 . |
| 2 | It was a relief that he did not try to speak , and when they came out at the landscaped clearing with its wooden bench seat overlooking the water she had readied herself to speak first . |
| 3 | The bath had invigorated her , and she got into bed in better spirits , and opened Gay 's letter , anticipating a good laugh . |
| 4 | D-1 competes with Mannesmann Mobilfunk 's GmbH 's D-2 system , and Telekom conceded that the Mannesmann network had outpaced its own D-1 system in winning subscribers , and that its own share was well below 50% . |
| 5 | Anna was growing tall , and her black hair was so unruly Peg had plaited it to keep it away from her pale face . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 8 | Unthinking , he had placed himself not in front of the desk but at an angle to it so that he was closer to the pipes , and he wondered how long the interview would last because it was short of thirty minutes until the call to the Kitchen for dinner and the hunger pain pinched at his stomach . |
| 9 | Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The incident , which did not result in casualties , came only hours after the South Korean government had placed its armed force on heightened alert in response to the attempted coup in the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | Claiming to have uncovered details of plans for an imminent military coup , the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) stated on Nov. 27 that it had placed its remaining guerrilla forces ( an estimated 3,000 not yet demobilized ) on full alert . |
| 15 | Against the advice of their hosts , they ventured into regions of mountain and marsh that occasioned difficulties never encountered in the well-drained chalklands of the Pays de Caux , and returned with an altered view of the country in whose service they had placed themselves . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was courteous and obliging to all , chearful , good-natured , and contented in the Station of Life in which Providence had placed her . |
| 18 | She was , in other words , a genuine believer in the ideals of enlightened government ( perhaps a more sincere one than the king of Prussia ) ; but her application of these ideals was limited to some extent by her personal weaknesses and far more by the demands and pressures of the situation in which history had placed her . |
| 19 | Ironically it seemed now that flight had placed her in far greater danger than staying put could ever have done . |
| 20 | Suu Kyi had led the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) to a landslide election victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ] , but the country 's ruling military junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , which had placed her under house arrest in mid-1989 , prevented the party from forming a government . |
| 21 | I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me . |
| 22 | Luca Giordano , Elisa went on , thinking that she had placed her hosts at a disadvantage , was a particular favourite of hers and she could easily see why he was regarded as one of Naples ' finest painters . |
| 23 | Elaine had placed her arm around his neck . |
| 24 | In the present case there was a glaring absence of any reliable evidence as to exactly what happened on the occasion on which Mrs. Steed had placed her signature on the transfer . |
| 25 | She was just crossing the square , and wondering where in her portmanteau she had placed her woollen shawl , when she became aware of footsteps that were not her own . |
| 26 | It was the first time , since the 1916 split , that all the major political leaders within the Liberal Party — David Lloyd George , Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir John Simon — had placed their names upon a major economic report . |
| 27 | At most only four Zuwaya employed more than ten people on a regular basis , and most wealthy Suwaya entrepreneurs , say seventy men altogether , had placed their money in partnerships rather than in wage-paying firms ; employees were generally foreigners excluded from the right to take over factories and workshops . |
| 28 | They had perhaps three hundred yards to cover to the edge of the encampment ; and as they neared this it dawned on Ramsay that , of all things , the enemy had placed their horse-lines here at this western rim of their cantonment . |
| 29 | Cromwell 's men were searching a Cavalier household ; the man had hidden in a window-seat and on top of it his wife had placed their sleeping child . |
| 30 | The Halifax Building Society , where the bombers had placed their device , is now a heap of rubble . |