Example sentences of "had [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Edward had used them in Wales as war dogs but later had them killed because , in their blood lust , they had failed to distinguish between friend and foe . |
| 2 | He had them erected in the grounds of his house — now council offices . |
| 3 | ‘ Tock had them made to save time , ’ said the Headmaster . |
| 4 | Only on a bigger scale , they had them made on a bigger scale you see . |
| 5 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 6 | Until well into the eighteen forties , they did n't actually buy dresses , they bought lengths of cloth and had them made up , either by a member of the household — a servant perhaps , or more often by a dressmaker , either a couturier or the local dressmaker . |
| 7 | I had them stopped ages ago . ’ |
| 8 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 9 | I have made 200 of these bricks , written eight 30 min lessons for nine year olds , and had them tested in two county primary schools . |
| 10 | She had them hidden in a box , in the store room . |
| 11 | Erm we did an initial pilot run of nine hundred and seven , er and we had them redirected here which was quite fortunate cos we did find some er previously unthought of errors , erm there were two categories , these are ones where , since the renewal date , they 've had er a decrease erm sorry an increase which meant that erm we 're now quoting on their benefit statement as at last renewal , they 've got today 's er premium which of course is wrong , so we 've had those redirected in future , inside here . |
| 12 | A Hapsburg Archduchess , travelling to take her four poodles for a Parisian clipping , had them fed three times a day on milk calf fried in Normandy butter . |
| 13 | Then ( somewhat sneakily ) I had them fed not 1,000 but 1,500 calories daily . |
| 14 | The clowning of Balaam and the donkey soon had them hooting and pointing and calling out to Balaam : ‘ An angel ! |
| 15 | Christianson and Loftus ( 1987 ) had subjects write down the central detail from each slide and Christianson and Loftus ( 1991 ) had them evaluate the affective quality of each slide , both these studies showed results which appeared to be consistent with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 16 | ‘ I had them followed back . |
| 17 | Residents of exclusive Woodland Hills , California , are fuming after the sexy star bought six giant maple trees and had them re-planted in her back garden . |
| 18 | When in 1916 , the Metropolitan Police insisted on all trams being fitted with side lamps , the remainder of the Croydon fleet had them fixed in small wooden boxes under the edge of the canopy . |
| 19 | They chose their own successors , had them elected , and watched while their protégés acquired both democratic respectability and democratic unpopularity . |
| 20 | Yeah , they had them come and fit their kitchen and they really did pay thousands of pounds for it , and erm , there was a chip erm , one of the units on the top and they , they just fitted it like it , and my , their dad called them back and said , look you know , I 'm paying thousands of pounds for this . |
| 21 | Prior to writing the script , I had made a list of the cast , designated local actors for the various roles and had them called for the 2pm ‘ woodshed ’ run-through . |
| 22 | Charles ordered these epics to be written out — although his son , Louis the Pious , unfortunately had them destroyed when he came to the throne , on account of the pagan content . |
| 23 | They did not remain long , for the cold soon had them hopping about , and the journey was resumed . |
| 24 | In the following April John II , fearing that the dauphin , Charles , who was duke of Normandy , was plotting against him with members of the Navarrese party and others , went secretly to Rouen and , as the dauphin was entertaining his guests to dinner , arrested some and had them led away to immediate execution . |
| 25 | Then we had them voting for the imposition of VAT on heating fuels , a cruel tax on the ordinary person as well as the pensioner . |
| 26 | He had them bound into a small handbook , which he carried around with him at all times , like a passport . |
| 27 | This news had them puzzled . |
| 28 | During subsequent overhauls , Nos. 369 and 373 lost the rubbing strips between the waist and rocker panels and had them replaced by plain metal bands . |
| 29 | Their proud father had them painted wearing their new finery . |
| 30 | Of course he needed to finance so improbable a research programme , so he sold his dragons to an Emperor , who had them minced up and served to him garnished with spit-roasted swallows ' tongues , at one of his less important banquets . |