Example sentences of "and had it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In Henry VIII 's reign , the great Dutch scholar Erasmus was given the benefice of Aldington in Kent and had it commuted for a pension of £20 , charged on the living . ) |
| 2 | Her father must have been really successful to have bought this house and had it altered . |
| 3 | And so we took a piece off and had it analysed , we have a little laboratory which we use to analyse things like that , and it turned out to be what we expected , the most common colour of medieval furniture was red . |
| 4 | He had said what he thought was the decent thing to say , and had it chucked back at him . |
| 5 | He was curled in a rickety chair and had it balanced on two of its legs , one foot braced against the column . |
| 6 | BuNo 133722 became a familiar sight at most West Cost USA airshows over the years until Lindsey purchased it and had it flown to the UK . |
| 7 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 8 | I 'm sure he went away and had it done somewhere else . |
| 9 | anyway she went and had it done and erm she was upset after she had it done like it must of hurt you know she was crying |
| 10 | The earliest experiment in New Jersey suggested that the reduction in working hours produced by relatively high tax rates was small — a 0.5-per-cent reduction in hours worked by men who received a cash supplement and had it withdrawn at a 50-per-cent tax rate . |
| 11 | Brückner had bought the painted ceiling from Italy and had it fitted . |
| 12 | After a shire-meeting in Herefordshire in Cnut 's day had declared that lands belonged to Leofflæd , her husband Thorkell the White rode to Hereford cathedral and had it recorded in a gospel book . |
| 13 | The answer is that they pursued the site owner monthly for three years until he agreed to sell the plot , seconds away from Hampstead Heath , then designed a five-bedroom house with 40ft outdoor pool and had it built . |
| 14 | He designed Horbury 's elegant Parish Church of St Peter and St Leonard , with its distinctive six-stage tower and had it built at a cost to himself of £8,000 in 1790–1794 . ’ |
| 15 | Dan Mason of the Chiswick Polish Company — ‘ Cherry Blossom Polish ’ — was a great benefactor and in 1922 he bought Boston House in Burlington Lake , Chiswick , and had it converted into a club for the female staff of his Company 's factory . |
| 16 | She bought a large eight-bedroomed house in Leicester , and had it converted into flats , which were then made available to homeless families . |
| 17 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 18 | When one of the party , a Mrs Samuels , died on the trip , Cook diplomatically disguised the fact from the Arabs and , pretending that she was ill , packed up her body and had it carried in a palanquin until a suitable burial could be arranged . |
| 19 | Well of course you can guess the rest , I took it up and had it valued and then put in an auction . |
| 20 | Uproar , laughter , lots of silly grins and had it set a trend ? |
| 21 | A company working in the Distributed Computing Environment arena got hold of version 1.0.1 last week and had it installed in seven hours , which we take to be an improvement over the initial 1.0 version described by it as ‘ a nightmare ’ that ‘ could n't be used ’ because it was so buggy . |
| 22 | He had bought it there and then and had it shipped directly to his stables , here at Tongjiang . |
| 23 | Having established the correct space allocation , and had it agreed by the architect , a basic layout of all areas , kitchen , pantries , stores , bars and so on , is planned , bearing in mind the logical sequence of operational events . |
| 24 | Waterston , never interested in personal glory , did not try to claim priority , but J. W. Strutt , third Baron Rayleigh [ q.v. ] , rediscovered the paper and had it published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1892 , with an introduction which belatedly gave Waterston due credit . |
| 25 | A PR executive faced with the task of showing the strength of steel-capped safety footwear hired a double decker bus and had it photographed as it drove over the feet of a man wearing the boots . |
| 26 | By s.24 goods are stolen for the purposes of handling if any one or four conditions is fulfilled : ( a ) they have been stolen contrary to s.1 ; ( b ) they have been obtained by deception contrary to s.15 ; ( c ) they have been obtained by blackmail contrary to s.21 ; ( d ) they have been subject to an act done in a foreign country which was both a crime in that country and had it occurred in England , would have been theft , obtaining by deception , or blackmail in this country . |
| 27 | As one of Rodin 's most celebrated works , The Kiss did not find favour with public opinion in the USA in the 1880s , which decided that the nude marble sculpture was far too hot for public viewing and had it confined to a special room . |
| 28 | I nearly forgot you , I mean one week he rang me and had it pinched out of his car |
| 29 | ‘ Be brave , ’ he told himself , and laid the middle finger of each hand upon the rim , as Peccable , who 'd once owned such a Bowl and had it smashed by his wife in a domestic row , had instructed . |
| 30 | Richens and the girl , Sabrina Ngiau , put the body in a trunk and had it driven to Kent where it was buried in a field behind his parents ' house at Borough Green Road , Ightham . |