Example sentences of "[noun] had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 2 | As Shklovsky had already pointed out in his essay on ‘ Art as technique ’ ( although the implications of his remarks were not fully drawn out until later ) form and order can themselves act as powerful automatizing factors . |
| 3 | His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours . |
| 4 | Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face . |
| 5 | Handlebar 's mate had meanwhile broken out in a kind of partridge death-wail . |
| 6 | The quiet Swiss man had actually turned up in a three-piece suit and tie , with a large amount of baggage ; one of the Belgians had two suitcases and a hand grip . |
| 7 | Not a single other EC government had yesterday come out in support of the American President 's decision . |
| 8 | The sergeant had already mapped out in his own mind , with an eye to the wind , the speed of the flow and the amount of debris being brought down , the procession of spits , shoals , curves and pools where a heavy piece of flotsam would be likely to cast up , beginning immediately below the village of Moulden , which lay just below the Aurae Phiala enclosure . |
| 9 | They had walked the perimeter his men had already marked out in preparation for the stockade he planned around the new settlement ; the deputies had taken this in , uttering cries among themselves at the tools his men handled . |
| 10 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 11 | The flying Scotsman had earlier missed out in the Junior TT by just 7.2 seconds in a superb contest . |
| 12 | At the bottom end of the educational scale I remember so very clearly the instances — and there were far too many of them for my peace of mind — where the school had virtually given up in the face of difficulties . |
| 13 | Dustin 's salary had certainly gone up in leaps and bounds , from $17,000 for The Graduate , to $250,000 for Midnight Cowboy , to $425,000 for John and Mary . |
| 14 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |