Example sentences of "[art] [noun] had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The port was London , where the seamen had come out in sympathy with the dockers . |
| 2 | The prince had come over to London to be married — from the house of Anna 's sister who was settled there — he hated every minute of it . |
| 3 | The valet had gone down on his knees , his head pressed to the floor , his whole body visibly shaking . |
| 4 | As the euphoria had gone along with an irrational faith in the Gaullist saviour , so the deepening disillusionment of 1945 , essentially an adjustment to reality , was reflected in a desanctification of the saviour figure . |
| 5 | A temporary repair was made and they flew on to Karachi , where the damage was found to be worse than at first suspected , as the fastenings had pulled out of one of the fuselage verticals . |
| 6 | At best , he would now only send fresh generals against the Christian force ; but even after El Cid 's death , much of the heart had gone out of the Moorish invaders . |
| 7 | The tour went on without them , but all the heart had gone out of it . |
| 8 | The heart had gone out of the day . |
| 9 | The airstrip itself had been built to serve a golf and diving resort that a consortium of Dutch and American businessmen had planned to build on Straker 's Cay , but the money had run out before the hotel or marina had been built and all that was left of their grandiose plans was this pinkish runway made of compacted coral and a few abandoned cement mixers which rusted forlornly where the hotel 's swimming pool was to have been built . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's meat and vegetables had been high — soft and sweet with badness — he had made himself swallow it and then in the night the shite had poured out of him until he was too weak to stand . |
| 11 | The driver of the Vauxhall had got out of her car and was advancing with menaces . |
| 12 | He said the debts had built up following the collapse of his business . |
| 13 | The taxpayer had carried on in Hong Kong the business of exploiting rights by granting sub-licences to overseas customers . |
| 14 | The decision had come down in favour of illusion : the President 's dream of triumphant new diplomacy and the hostages home . |
| 15 | It was recovered from Leatherslade Farm near Brill where the gang had holed up after the raid … just twenty eight miles from the scene . |
| 16 | The debriefing had gone on through the afternoon and early evening in the sound-proofed rooms of their headquarters . |
| 17 | He had been urgently summoned by the sexton , whom the vicar had sent off on horseback , and he was annoyed at being dragged from his bed in Kettlewell , so early on Christmas Eve ; especially as by the time he arrived it was all over . |
| 18 | The Vicar had come round to tea and was talking to Tommy and his mother about his daughter . |
| 19 | In their publicity for the film , Warner Bros boasted of the way in which the story had grown out of an actual incident and of Judge Musmanno 's involvement in the subsequent litigation , and also of how ex-miners had been brought in to ensure authentic mining scenes . |
| 20 | Would n't have minded if the driver had gone in for some stronger magic — the old Christianity did n't seem to be having much effect on his driving . |
| 21 | Charlie Hatton had always been cocky but in the past weeks he 'd become insufferable and most of the meetings had broken up like this . |
| 22 | But all the fight had gone out of her and she was afraid . |
| 23 | He could see the fight had drained out of her . |
| 24 | The videotape was appropriately blurry , like the man ; the stuffing had gone out of him . |
| 25 | The robe had ridden up to Ari 's waist , exposing her genitals which appeared swollen and engorged to unnatural proportions . |
| 26 | The brashness had gone out of the sunlight , and the air had a chill . |
| 27 | The talk had moved on to Brazil 's thieves , particularly Rio 's , leaving me feeling vulnerable again — like a man with one leg . |
| 28 | If the industry had gone along with the sort of scheme that we were urging three or four years ago , it would be well geared up to meeting the challenge now , instead of being caught short by its friends — who I am sure the industry feels have in some way betrayed it . |
| 29 | By 1912 , however , the influence of Matisse and the Fauves , which the Brücke had grafted on to a more purely native form of Expressionism , was definitely on the wane , and German painters were feeling the influence of both Cubism and Futurism . |
| 30 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |