Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had started at the Royal College of Music , and the atmosphere there was at first hostile to volunteering . |
| 2 | She had suffered at the sharp end of the tongues of some of Dej 's more sophisticated barons ' wives in the 1950s and Dej 's favourite daughter did not respect her . |
| 3 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 4 | She tried to hide her feelings by concentrating , as she had done at the Red House , on the children . |
| 5 | No , she had not wanted that , not Papa 's shrewd eyes on her ; she had shivered at the very thought . |
| 6 | How lovely she had looked at the early morning Mass . |
| 7 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 8 | Fast motion can be used to express erotic tension and desire , if the purpose is comic rather than romantic — if we had laughed at the romantic yearnings of Cecile or even Frankie , the film would be failing , even though the treatment of these themes is throughout as much comic as tragic — ‘ bitter-sweet ’ seems to be the compound word , or better still the mot juste is ‘ douce-amère ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |
| 10 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 11 | They had known each other for so many years , since they had trained at the Royal Victoria , Belfast , that there were no secrets or illusions between them and she was able to tell Mick all her problems . |
| 12 | They had met at the close mouth as she was inserting her key into the heavy outer door . |
| 13 | But there was plenty of time , and they had to wait at the other end of the tunnel . |
| 14 | They had so many men they had to start at the other end and |
| 15 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
| 16 | Prime Minister Chung , however , voiced suspicion over the North 's nuclear programme , pointing out that North Korea had not yet ratified the nuclear safeguard agreement which it had signed at the International Atomic Energy Authority ( IAEA ) on Jan. 30 [ see p. 38721 ] , allowing for international inspection of its nuclear facilities . |
| 17 | The reaction of the audience was enthusiastic , and the play continued to be a popular success after it had opened at the Lyric Theatre in London on 16 September , ( Henry Sherek had again wanted to take the play first to New York , but Eliot vetoed the idea ) . |
| 18 | Then it was possible for the expert to pick out a glazed tile , though only if it had sunk at the correct angle to the river bed . |
| 19 | Having secured the tables and the glasses , he had peered at the dark discoloured oil of an elderly cleric in a shovel hat and opined that this was the work of ‘ our local genius ’ . |
| 20 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 21 | Minton would have been familiar with Buffet 's art , and that of other picasso-influenced French Realists , either through reproductions or from exhibitions he had seen at the Anglo-French Institute . |
| 22 | He had hinted at the possible withholding of US aid to Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | He had taken in the shelf full of Jacob 's own writings , he had paused at the artful photograph of a striking blonde woman who he had no doubt was Jardine 's wife . |
| 24 | Blood trickled down his calves where , while writing , he had clawed at the cracking patches on his legs . |
| 25 | He paused by the window seat , a replica of one he had noticed at the other end of the gallery . |
| 26 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 27 | He had arrived at the forward brigade post three hours earlier . |
| 28 | Presently he was there , he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge . |
| 29 | He had arrived at the precise moment when Elizabeth had begun to sob and then desolately to weep , and all Lydia 's skills , social , sexual and manipulative , had abruptly deserted her . |
| 30 | He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself . |