Example sentences of "[adj] had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already he was beginning to steal glances at the clock , comparing it needlessly with his own watch , missing bits of the film while he made rapid calculations as to whether he might conceivably be able to see Bridget home , and , when this had become out of the question , as to how long they would have to say good night at the hated corner . |
| 2 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 3 | Gabbi Callas , 27 , fiancee of victim Mark Fitz , said : ‘ If all this had come out before the court case , it might have made a difference . ’ |
| 4 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |
| 5 | As they reached the lay-by , the accused had pulled in alongside the red van and stopped . |
| 6 | These had boiled down to the supposed constitutionally irregular remark that ‘ something must be done ’ . |
| 7 | Something sudden had come up concerning the family fortunes and he had to consult his solicitors : it was the one excuse that his seniors being closer to retirement and thus deeply concerned with land values and capital transfer taxes accepted with sympathy . |
| 8 | All in all , the grandiose hopes of the 1760s had petered out in the Sussex of the 1820s . |
| 9 | Then the sections of the Second International had divided up between the different belligerent powers . |
| 10 | A third round of preliminary talks in Rome between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government on March 20-29 had broken down over the TPLF 's insistence that " substantive talks " should involve a joint delegation of the TPLF and its ally , the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) . |
| 11 | Yeah , yeah , oh yes of course a lot of the people were , that were in the we were in under the balcony but they were up to their knees in plaster and goodness knows what that had come out of the roof they could n't move it all dropped round them . |
| 12 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 13 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 14 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 15 | The ‘ pomps who were n't dead had gone off with the preacherman . |
| 16 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 17 | But the evidence suggests that the fragile though real co-operation between liberals and workers of 1905 had broken down by the pre-war years . |
| 18 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |