Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the number for March had gone down to single figures . |
| 2 | However , charges subsequently set by individual local councils were almost without exception in excess of this level , and on March 21 Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that the average actual charge for England had turned out to be £363 ; he blamed this excess principally on the actions of Labour controlled councils ( and announcements on April 3 and 10 listed a total of 21 local authorities which were to be " capped " — i.e. their expenditure limited to a level determined by the central government ) . |
| 3 | An endless stream of proposals had poured in for the £20 million a year it had to dispense . |
| 4 | A number of institutions had cut back on travel in order to balance their budgets . |
| 5 | The funding was running down , clumps of weed had pushed up between the paving slabs , and whole layers of rendering were falling off the façades of the buildings , giving them a seedy , leprous aspect . |
| 6 | Already , since the first stage of price liberalization in November 1990 , the cost of living had soared by over 50 per cent . |
| 7 | Ordinarily she would have relished the variety which the creators of Moloch had offered up for her pleasure without a qualm or a second thought , but this time something was getting to her , making her nervous . |
| 8 | This latter business was undertaken in the most difficult financial circumstances and , even after the newly founded Bank of England had taken over from Herne , it was his credit that kept the artillery train in Flanders from starving late in 1694 . |
| 9 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 10 | Slopes of sand had drifted up against their flanks , moulding themselves into the deep crevices . |
| 11 | A school of masseurs had set up at number 17 and a rival dance director called Sherman Fisher was working from number 18 . |
| 12 | Instead , after the first flaring of fame had died down to a steady glow , and he had enjoyed the sexual fruits that it offered , he stayed in his two-room West 11th Street apartment , together with Anne and Karina again , dressed in the faded jeans and threadbare leather jackets he had always worn . |
| 13 | He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room . |
| 14 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |
| 15 | The practice of fasting had grown up amongst the Pharisees as a sign of their superiority . |
| 16 | Prickles of sweat had broken out along her backbone . |
| 17 | If a piece of metal had flown out of the machine and blinded Brian , the court could hold that the purpose of the statute was to keep the employee out , not the machine in . |
| 18 | This paranoid fear of a Catholic insurrection was heightened in 1641 by the news that the Catholic Irish of Ulster had risen up in armed rebellion against the Protestant settlers of that province , and it subsequently became one of the most powerful influences motivating those who took up arms against Charles I in the civil war . |
| 19 | The chief cargo handled here was coal , and within a century the population of Goole had shot up from under 500 to 20,000 The docks are close to the centre of the town , which was largely the creation of the canal company that built the docks with their brick warehouses and harbour offices . |
| 20 | It was he who had given the alarm in the barn , for he could not sleep and at the sound of scratching had started up at once . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had no time for the ritual marriage with the Everqueen since the legions of Nagarythe had swept down from their grim realm , bearing the banner of Malekith before them . |
| 23 | A large number of people had turned out for it . |
| 24 | Other reports were that numbers of people had set out on foot from Tirana for Dürres and Vlore in response to rumours . |
| 25 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 26 | Yesterday 's explosion occurred soon after an express train from the northern city of Jammu had pulled up at Sealdah , Mr Biswas said . |
| 27 | So , the Excavator 's house of Call had sprung up from a beer-shop ; and the old -established Ham and Beef Shop had become the Railway Eating House , with a roast leg of pork daily , through interested motives of a similar immediate and popular description . |
| 28 | The agreement by the County Council to transfer St. Peter 's to the minister was not without irony — the Ministry of Health had grown out of the same succession of poor laws which had produced both the institution and , indeed , local government itself . |
| 29 | They thought it normal for tea to come out of the fridge or the oven in a tinfoil box with a peel-back lid , although they did remember for weeks afterwards Lucy 's occasional cordon-bleu phases , when the house had been filled with heart-warming smells , and different kinds of food had appeared out of saucepans on top of the oven , and other dishes inside it . |
| 30 | After the tragedy a couple of men had gone up with concrete posts : he 'd watched them at it . |