Example sentences of "had [verb] [conj] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The High Street had been left to the pimps and the down-and-outs , and in the ancient College grounds where once the Black Friars had taught and studied in a universe made of crystal spheres , there was only the clang and clatter of brake couplings and buffers . |
| 2 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 3 | Isambard had halted and turned in the passage , frowning a little , in two minds whether to go back to him , but in the end he did not ; he merely waited for a little while , listening until the torrent of defiance had grown strangely shaken and softened with moments of entreaty . |
| 4 | Cadfael turned to give him a long , thoughtful look , and a few white petals that had floated and lodged in the rough cloth of his sleeve caught the stirring of air from the door , and floated free again , riding the draught into the pale , bright sunlight . |
| 5 | She had been inadvertently locked in a disused cellar and the only sound she had heard while cringing in a darkened corner was the incessant scratching as the rats scurried across the concrete floor around her . |
| 6 | All of the people he had stopped and engaged in conversation over the last four years . |
| 7 | He had to go and sit in the woodshed and smoke it . |
| 8 | This word ‘ gently ’ enhances the tenderness of the lines , while ‘ fields unsown ’ tells us that the man had to go and work in the fields , suggesting a strength and a vigour which he must have had and thereby making his death harder to accept . |
| 9 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 10 | People had come and gone in the little crowd . |
| 11 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 12 | We went to the concert by bus , and Bob was left in New York ( he had collapsed while jogging in Central Park ) and came along later in the day . |
| 13 | Trent had owned and lived in the cottage as Patrick Mahoney , and Patrick Mahoney was dead . |
| 14 | JOHNNY 'S Circus became an important feature of his life at 37 Hamilton Terrace , a house belonging to the Tory MP Colonel Martin Lindsay , the two lower floors of which Minton and Keith Vaughan had repaired and converted in August 1946 . |
| 15 | By 1912 , Mr Foale of Wolverton had designed and put in production , the famous ‘ Wolverton System ’ . |
| 16 | She had met and fallen in love with Peter Shand Kydd , a wallpaper millionaire , seen a chance of happiness , and taken it . |
| 17 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 18 | Returning to America he began to write features for a newspaper called the Toronto Star Weekly in 1919 , and in 1921 was married of his own free will to a woman he had met and fallen in love with earlier . |
| 19 | Veronica Grahame , second daughter of Lord Stonybrook , had met and fallen in love with Puddephat while attending his lectures on Lawrence at Oxford . |
| 20 | He had already witnessed the incredible speed of his lethal opponent , and also of his fellow oriental whom he had shot and killed in the Control Room . |
| 21 | ‘ The old lion had raged and roared in vain ’ concluded Bellamy . |
| 22 | She knew what was to come ; she had seen that look in her friend 's eyes too many times these past few months . |
| 23 | Annunziata nodded her head gravely and held open the door for Julia , who returned to the court wondering how much else Annunziata had seen and understood in her unobtrusive way . |
| 24 | ‘ Rewind the film ’ , and visualise what you wish you had said and done in that situation . |
| 25 | If that was the discovery Francis had made and mentioned in his diary it might have caused him distress but it was hard to see it as providing a motive for his murder . |
| 26 | At least it started off as a quick explanation , but almost without noticing , she was soon telling Antony everything she had felt or feared in the past week . |
| 27 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 28 | This meant that , although they could turn to the work of historians and anthropologists , they had to reinterpret that work in their own way . |
| 29 | To recapture the adventures of youth that she had missed or lost in years of stress and studying and working . |
| 30 | He had thought that living in Normandy would make him ambivalent towards his old enemy , but he had spent too many years fighting the Crapauds suddenly to relinquish the need to see them beaten . |