Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | The bath had invigorated her , and she got into bed in better spirits , and opened Gay 's letter , anticipating a good laugh . |
| 3 | Anna was growing tall , and her black hair was so unruly Peg had plaited it to keep it away from her pale face . |
| 4 | She was courteous and obliging to all , chearful , good-natured , and contented in the Station of Life in which Providence had placed her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ironically it seemed now that flight had placed her in far greater danger than staying put could ever have done . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was much he was not aware of in security operations , but the general had placed him in charge of the inquiry . |
| 10 | But most monks stayed , like Orderic Vitalis ( pp. 14–15 ) , where their parents or their vocation had placed them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Last year we cracked an ex-display tank in this office — that was an adequate 6mm three footer and we had placed it on polystyrene tiles on top of two filing cabinets which were less than even . |
| 14 | But Salome had placed it all perfectly in context , and by doing so had made Erich an unwitting ally to the theme . |
| 15 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She removed her hand from Owen 's arm , where she had placed it . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | The long journey across , the shock of realising that she would have to share the house with a complete stranger , and a highly undesirable one at that , had disorientated her . |
| 20 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 21 | Then she remembered her night-gown was torn down the front where Faith Caskie had ripped it . |
| 22 | Someone had ripped it out and thrown it away . |
| 23 | ‘ We were leaving a bar which had ripped us off and Simon started giggling and piling up pot plants from the window boxes all over our car . |
| 24 | A warmth , coupled with excitement , had filled him as she opened her violin case , took out the instrument and began to play . |
| 25 | A strange fierce joy had filled him after that , and he had n't really heard anything Ashton or Smith had said to him . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Her feelings on that day had been so overpowering , had filled her with such sharp pleasure that always she hoped that their ghosts must still be lingering among the leaves . |
| 28 | She 'd felt a warmth go through her , as though he 'd reached out and touched her , an imaginary touch that had filled her with excitement . |
| 29 | The mother and baby specialist retail chain had been very successful in identifying a gap in the market and had filled it very efficiently , but it lacked the flair and creative genius that Conran had brought to Habitat and was losing business as a consequence . |
| 30 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |