Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An endless stream of proposals had poured in for the £20 million a year it had to dispense . |
| 2 | A hundred years of weather had stained her haunches a blackish green and generations of birds had dropped whitely on her domed head . |
| 3 | A number of institutions had cut back on travel in order to balance their budgets . |
| 4 | Four or five sets of headlights had blazed rudely into the neck of the lane , then turned in disappointment away . |
| 5 | A school of masseurs had set up at number 17 and a rival dance director called Sherman Fisher was working from number 18 . |
| 6 | By 1905 the number of volumes had risen again to almost 300 . |
| 7 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |
| 8 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |
| 9 | One group of troopers had tangled together in their panic , still in the executive transporter 's path . |
| 10 | At the capitalization party a number of well-wishers had wandered in from the various Labour movement campaigns and organizations which shared the Caxton House office block with NoS . |
| 11 | The main group of demonstrators had broken away from an authorized rally in a nearby square called by the Revolution Party ( Christian Democratic ) . |
| 12 | News that the current account on the UK balance of payments had moved slightly into surplus during June , for the first time since February 1987 , also helped to increase dealings on the London stock market , where the FT-Actuaries All-Share Index reached a new all-time peak of 1,238 on July 29 . |
| 13 | The race of Squats had evolved away from the human norm inside the caves and cramped , carved-out seams of bleak mining worlds which were barren save for minerals . |
| 14 | After the tragedy a couple of men had gone up with concrete posts : he 'd watched them at it . |
| 15 | There had been a tricky one in Paris , where an entire detachment of men had arrived back from French Guyana and left the ablutions in an appalling state . |
| 16 | In a week or so you would have thought a crowd of angels had wafted in from putney singing my name and crying ‘ Hosanna ! ’ |
| 17 | By 1981 , the numbers of students had grown considerably to 377,000 : of these 209,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including only 27,000 on initial teacher training , and 168,000 on part-time courses . |
| 18 | Even the concrete floor had cracked with age and clusters of weeds had grown up through the uneven apertures . |
| 19 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 20 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |
| 21 | He could see very little , but the sound of their laughter told him a whole group of workmen had crept up on him while he was hugging the yard wall , fearful of the big Great Dane . |
| 22 | Two robbers both with guns had got in through a kitchen window and were threatening to kill him . |
| 23 | Money flowing into the territories from the Gulf nations and from remittances had fallen dramatically as a result of the war . |
| 24 | This was mainly due to demobilization , but others may have been attracted to the region due to the fact that through the expropriation of landowners , the area held by peasants had gone up by 65 per cent since 1917 . |