Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus had propped himself up on one elbow , watching . |
| 2 | Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches . |
| 3 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 4 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 5 | Though there had been some concern as to what the world 's reaction would be , Wilson had smoothed it over with assurances that the world community could n't deny that America had the right to protect the few hundred of its citizens in Haiti , and to defend the various mining and import/export concessions that had been granted to them . |
| 6 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 7 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 8 | The thought that I had crushed something out of his life was a disquieting one . |
| 9 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 10 | He recognized her at once because Gabriel had pointed her out to him and he thought the boy must be young Hilaire . |
| 11 | Once someone had pointed it out to me , together with its next door neighbour , as an example of a building style peculiar to this little area of Surrey . |
| 12 | There was a place — he recalled it now — Burkett had pointed it out to him when they were fishing on Derwent Water — a sheer cliff coming suddenly out of woods and fronting the valley . |
| 13 | The preacher was describing with enthusiasm how he had been wicked for years and how a certain parson had pointed it out to him : this had gradually turned him from wickedness . |
| 14 | If he had n't known that fact himself , Devlin Parnham had pointed it out to him repeatedly with a self-satisfied little smirk . |
| 15 | George had pointed someone out to me in the dayniter , but he was not the right person : grey haired , but too ill-looking , too old . |
| 16 | Other reports said up to a dozen wanted people had given themselves up in Tulkarm . |
| 17 | From under her cloak , Maisie took the scroll of paper that he had given her back in August . |
| 18 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 19 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
| 20 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 21 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 22 | He had given it up for his very inferior car when he started courting Big Brenda out of the Biology lab — Biological Brenda , as Preston called her , who gave them lessons on sex , and no doubt Sam as well . |
| 23 | He had joined them out of the press in the midst of a guard of taciturn Merkut troopers who were economical in their employment of the brute force necessary to clear their master 's path . |
| 24 | Shama had joined us along with the Sheikha 's mother , a tall , fine-boned woman with compassionate , intelligent eyes . |
| 25 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 26 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 27 | Jack had also met Tina 's grandad , whose quick mind and sense of humour had won him over at once . |
| 28 | This probably helped undermine support for a new right-wing party , the National Democrats , whose anti-U S , anti-Soviet and anti-immigrant policies had won it up to ten per cent of support in Länder elections in 1966 — 8 . |
| 29 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 30 | Mother used to say he had to work it out of his system . |