Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 2 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 3 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 5 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 6 | I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back . |
| 7 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
| 8 | ‘ He was livid , as though I had stirred up the printers against him and come to say ‘ I told you so ’ once they 'd walked out . ’ |
| 9 | After I had read out the concentrated edition to my two guests , Moltke remarked : ‘ Now it has a different ring ; it sounded before like a parley ; now it is like a flourish in answer to a challenge . ’ |
| 10 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 11 | However , as I replaced the cap , to my utter amazement , I noticed it was labelled ‘ Geranium ’ — I had picked up the wrong bottle . |
| 12 | Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect . |
| 13 | I had sorted out the flat really nicely , and had some money put away . |
| 14 | My reason for not signing the petition was quite clear : when I had spoken out the previous December not one other international , nor the IAC , had raised a peep when our sport was being vilified . |
| 15 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
| 16 | Months before the CPRS report came to ministers , therefore , we had reviewed the options and indeed in July 1982 I had set out the Government 's position , after consultation with the Treasury . |
| 17 | Then I noticed the Bible lying all on its own on the other side of the bunk ; the Bible on which I had laid out the relics the night before last , Night Zero . |
| 18 | And when I had laid out the clothing , I began the even more important business of transferring my personal armament . |
| 19 | As usual , once I had put down the wheelbarrow , I had stiffened up and been able to think only of aches and pains . |
| 20 | Someone has plotted to kill you ! ’ and I explained what I had heard and how I had put out the fire . |
| 21 | Someone had ripped out the cables — more proof of attention to detail . |
| 22 | Perhaps someone had taken out the bulb . |
| 23 | Looked as if someone had pulled out the HT lead , actually . ’ |
| 24 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 25 | This year of 1944 saw the supreme Japanese effort to break the deadlock which had bogged down the Burma front . |
| 26 | But I missed the more dramatic sting inflicted on Gloucestershire 's Mark Davies , by a bee which had gone up the trouser leg and reached the left-arm spinner 's more intimate regions . |
| 27 | The blast which had flung down the doors at the front had strangely left the windows intact , but when Pat arrived home it was decided that it would be better to leave Julia in the bed in the cellar . |
| 28 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 29 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 30 | Was Miss Fergusson comparing the earthquake which had thrown down the village of Arghuri to the great Flood itself ? |