Example sentences of "a [noun] had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jilly Cooper had agreed to a revision of the promotional leaflet she featured in last year , and a mailing had gone out to every secondary and primary school in the UK . |
| 2 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 3 | A figure had crawled out of the tent , rumpled , wearing trousers and a sweater ; the man stood up once he was clear of the canvas and stretched , yawning . |
| 4 | A light had gone on in one of the downstairs rooms in Puddephat 's wing . |
| 5 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 6 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 7 | All over the room a search had gone on for what the scientists called ‘ forensic residues ’ . |
| 8 | A car had gone out of control on the slippery road . |
| 9 | A car had pulled up by the gate . |
| 10 | In the " totalitarian world " , as de Gaulle called it , a rift had opened up between Beijing and Moscow , while the nations of Eastern Europe were showing signs of restlessness . |
| 11 | She was not disappointed ; if a firebell had gone off within a yard of his ear , he could not have appeared more shaken . |
| 12 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 13 | Shiona felt as though a bomb had gone off in her face . |
| 14 | Some months earlier , while Richard was still in the foothills of the Pyrenees , a crisis had blown up in the rich , flat pasture land of western Berry , the most north-easterly part of Aquitaine . |
| 15 | In the USSR , however , there were reports at the beginning of the war that the Soviets were unhappy that a war had broken out at all and that a friendly state , Iraq , was at war with a regime that had conducted a revolution of which the USSR basically approved — and using Soviet arms into the bargain . |
| 16 | Apart from that , it also shows how wide a gulf had opened up between this sort of natural religion and classical Christianity . |
| 17 | A gulf had opened up between them . |
| 18 | It felt as though a grenade had gone off in my head . |
| 19 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 20 | Over the last few months hardly a day had gone by without his name being mentioned in the financial Press , the articles mainly commenting on the swift , ferocious manner in which he was carving his way through the City , ruthlessly gobbling up one company after another . |
| 21 | What a cheer had gone up as the Englishman with Turtons ' file had filed the steel down to the vice before the Frenchman was one third the way through ! |
| 22 | In the blustery dark descending the well-lit centre of the house , Rachaela found a woman had stepped out from a doorway , a neighbour from the floor below . |
| 23 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 24 | Twenty-five years after the war ended a man had gone in to the shop and been told that his treasure was studded with spinels instead of rubies . |
| 25 | A man had climbed out of the car . |
| 26 | One day just below their balcony a man had got out of his car and gone to the car in front and opened that car 's door and started shouting at the man inside , and then the car behind had started hooting and others had joined in . |
| 27 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 28 | The Trunchbull let out a yell and leapt off her chair as though a firecracker had gone off underneath her . |
| 29 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 30 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |