Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yolland saw that the BCR had installed a turntable at Stretford Bridge , constructed a platform and upon it had placed a temporary station — presumably a building of some sort . |
| 2 | In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 . |
| 3 | George Clifford , whom Miller met in Holland , had placed a brilliant young Swede , Carl Linnaeus in charge of his large garden and menagerie at De Hartekamp . |
| 4 | The bogus golfers had placed a triangular support under the open end of the decapitated golf-bag and had hammered a notched support into the grout at its base , which still rested on the trolley . |
| 5 | In my self-conscious zeal to improve myself , I had placed a regular order for the London Times , not a paper normally stocked by that small newsagent . |
| 6 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 7 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 8 | George Swinson , a sixty-five-year-old sailor , had sustained a serious accident a year previously when he fell from the upper yard of a ship at Portland , Oregon . |
| 9 | She had sustained a slight scratch on her neck . |
| 10 | The Yenan Koreans had formed a separate party , the New Democratic Party . |
| 11 | The ministers responsible for foreign economic co-operation of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland ( known as the Visegrad Three ) , meeting in Budapest on April 17 , announced that they had formed a Central European Co-operation Committee . |
| 12 | Frost , like thickly appliquéd lace medallions , patterned the bedroom window , and water in a cup by the bedside had formed a solid block of ice . |
| 13 | He might be a roaring flirt of the first water , but already she had formed a solid impression that , whatever else Lubor Ondrus might be , he was most loyal to his employer . |
| 14 | Hobbes had formed a close friendship with Gassendi during his meetings with him in Paris , in the circle of scientists and philosophers which centred round Mersenne . |
| 15 | From Guy 's came a friend and colleague of Dr Barnard , a man who had worked with the Chief Explosives Officer of the Met on many cases and had formed a close professional relationship . |
| 16 | Steam from the water had clouded the mirrors in the bathroom ; condensation had formed a dewy veil over the tiles . |
| 17 | At one time Dalgety was up 16p as Elf Aquitaine , the French oil group , confirmed it had formed a joint company with Australian Robert Holmes a Court to hold a 5.5 per cent stake in the Dalgety agricultural and food group . |
| 18 | Touche Ross announced on Tuesday that it had formed a new international firm , Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) without Deloitte UK . |
| 19 | The Christians believed that by the death of Jesus , the suffering servant of Isaiah , God had formed a new covenant not only with the Jews but with all peoples of the earth . |
| 20 | Radio Zambia reported on March 20 that defectors from the MMD had formed a new party , the National Party for Democracy ( NPD ) . |
| 21 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 12 reported that some 80 former student leaders who were active in the pro-democracy movement in the 1970s had formed a new political party , Pracha Dhamma . |
| 22 | Robert Golan , chair of the association of Soviet immigrants , announced on March 31 that he had formed a new party , the Movement for Israel 's Revival . |
| 23 | Mr Blackman hesitated , and by the time he had formed a limited partnership to launch his schismatic fair , the would-be faithful had signed on with CIAE 's crosstown competition , David and Lee Ann Lester 's three-year-old Art Chicago International . |
| 24 | And when it was all over , I had formed a great attachment and respect for my penis . |
| 25 | On Nov. 3 Sendero guerrillas murdered 37 people who had formed a civil defence group in the Andean village of Santo Tomás de Pata . |
| 26 | Clasper 's small hard core of left-wing supporters , which included a phalanx of students from Liverpool University , had formed a noisy group immediately in front of the improvised platform , which consisted of a large wooden CKD crate with the Vehicle Divisions ' name stencilled in large black letters on each surface . |
| 27 | The cloud was a white , heavier-than-air gas , that had formed a definite surface layer ; the buildings were the tops of stacked containers . |
| 28 | HAVING BEEN a close follower of The Lone Groover and loon pant ads in the NME of the '70s , I had formed a lasting impression of The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly as an impenetrable fortress of wit , intellect and sneering clever-gits . |
| 29 | Thus in 1971 , United Carbon Black Ltd of Swansea was forced to spend money on improving its air emissions because local residents had formed a strong pressure group . |
| 30 | However , reports in October claimed that up to 1,300 Army officers had formed a secret group in support of the former CCP general secretary Zhao Ziyang and in opposition to the Yang brothers . |