Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole line of docks seemed to be ablaze and ships in the river , shops , offices , streets of terraced houses and mansions , as well as beautiful and historic buildings like the Walker Art Gallery , the Museum and Central Library , had all suffered as high explosive bombs , land mines and incendiary bombs had rained down upon the city from hundreds of aircraft . |
| 2 | King Edward must have guessed this , or possibly some English sympathiser had slipped out of the town by night in a small boat undetected , which was quite possible , and informed him of the situation . |
| 3 | Old Saul was the culprit , Old Saul had gone down in our history and my personal mythology as the Castraitor , but thanks to the little creatures who flew the creek I had him in my power now . |
| 4 | Above the knee , Santa shed 1¼ inches , and those flabby thighs had toned down by an inch . |
| 5 | Small pieces of electronic equipment had spilled out of the snake . |
| 6 | But the old pub had burnt down in the 1960s and been replaced by a more profitable and thrusting enterprise . |
| 7 | By late afternoon , a full-scale battle had broken out with rockets and grenades exploding regularly and bullets thudding into the walls . |
| 8 | The measure was taken after the Governor , Mr Dimitris Chalkias , received an SOS from the National Economy Ministry saying the public sector had run out of money to pay civil servants — around 22 percent of Greece 's entire work force are employed by the state . |
| 9 | One afternoon we were taken to the Kidge above Delhi where British troops had held out against constant attacks during the Mutiny . |
| 10 | The previous year to my visit a sizeable chunk had cracked off in a storm . |
| 11 | The admission followed revelations by former RAF ace Pablo Mason that some Top Guns had backed out of Tornado missions against Iraq . |
| 12 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 13 | This in an ordinary way would not have mattered , but it mattered in this particular case and mattered quite fatally , because at various stages of the discussion , when we seemed to be reaching an agreement , I pressed Mr Smith about whether there was any likelihood , whatever the agreement was , that it would be acceptable to the entire population of Rhodesia , which the British government had laid down as a precondition . |
| 14 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 15 | He had found milk at the ā gri 's house and the old man had come back with him to see if he could be of any use . |
| 16 | To do nothing might be worse — Allan had greeted them at the house with the news ( fresh from the great oven of rumour , the widow Duff 's at Ballinluig ) that a file of English soldiers had ridden out from Perth . |
| 17 | They told him that all had gone well until , between Roxburgh town and the castle , before which they were demonstrating , seeking to decoy Balliol , by chance an English party had come up behind them , presumably having ridden over the Border and by Kelso ford , and they had been trapped . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've heard on t' Brownie gals , ’ Aunt Nellie told her when the tall lady had driven off in her smart two-seater sports-car , ‘ but I don' reckon they do the sort o' good turns I 'd set store by — like helpin' wash up an' lay t' table — that I don' ! ’ |
| 19 | Some bloody fool had slipped up on orders , taken off half-cocked . |
| 20 | A lock of dark hair had fallen down over his forehead and she was swept by a sudden yearning to put up her hand , feel the silken texture of it with her fingers . |
| 21 | The five remaining dogs had raced on down the driveway , past the gaping ruin of the buckled gates , and out onto the highway beyond . |
| 22 | He had made her laugh several times , had laughed once at something she 'd said , she recalled , and the entire evening had gone by on winged feet . |
| 23 | Within a year its individual membership had risen by about 100,000 . |
| 24 | Next moment their wraithlike figures had darted out of sight among the trees like two startled deer . |
| 25 | ‘ I hope you remembered to bring a tin-opener , ’ said Sophia , in confusion , for the idea of taking food to the deprived Roman cats had set up in her head a muddled train of thought , which had something to do with Anglo- and Roman Catholicism , as if the latter had need of nourishment from the former . |
| 26 | Additionally , the Hammer community was in the process of housing redevelopment , and many in-group members had moved out of the immediate area . |
| 27 | Average prices had fallen by about 2% and , despite cost-cutting , were continuing at these levels in April . |
| 28 | But on the other hand , when the great came into contact with the king , when he held his councils and parliaments , when he decided that a mighty subject had stepped out of line , or had acquired too much power and wealth for himself , as happened to James V 's former favourite Sir James Hamilton of Finnart , executed in 1540 : then there was a high level of direct interventionist rule , very tough and irresistibly powerful . |
| 29 | Saad , whose mighty voice had welled up from his entrails . |
| 30 | The Japanese army had pulled out on 23 April , taking Ba Maw along with them ; Thakin Nu and his wife also went along . |