Example sentences of "had [verb] [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Night had fallen and with it his defences . |
| 2 | A couple of hours later , when the awkwardnesses had receded and giggling and fidgeting had given way to my acceptance as part of the furniture , they were engaged in an enthusiastic frank exchange about the qualities of teachers whom they had liked , whose lessons they had enjoyed and for whom they were prepared to concede the comment : ‘ Mr So and So was decent — yeah , well decent , were n't he Sue ? ’ |
| 3 | Floy glanced over his shoulder , trying to gauge how far they had come and in which direction the road now lay . |
| 4 | Your performance depended on how well you had prepared and on your ability to negotiate . |
| 5 | But curiously enough the regret she felt , not for anything she had done but for what she had n't , quite put an end to the old wearisome illusion of prosecution and trial . |
| 6 | As she watched him striding up the beach she tried to consider what he had said but with his loss the full weight of her grief hit her with a thud that stopped her eyes , her ears , her brain . |
| 7 | His own sources among the Altun had picked up vague hints of another conception upon which Sidacai had drawn or to which he had been led . |
| 8 | He had quite forgotten it , or , rather , it had sunk back to the dark , subterranean level from which it had sprung and on which he really did believe his father might kill him some day . |
| 9 | He was a prophet in the wilderness , perhaps , but one whom the wilderness had entered and upon which he depended for his terrible denunciations . |
| 10 | By the third decade of that century , the idea of a prime minister had emerged and in its first physical manifestation it took the imposing form of Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 11 | The faded board had gone and in its place was a sign proclaiming ‘ Gentlemen 's Hairdresser — pensioners 10% discount ’ . |
| 12 | In one of the monthly issues I tried to express the affection of British government officers , missionaries , and commercial people for the country in which they had worked and to which they longed to return . |
| 13 | The plants had been sown with cotton into a large book which , he was told , probably somewhat testily by Miller , William Sherard had borrowed and from which he had extracted some desirable specimens to incorporate them into his herbarium , bequeathed to Oxford University . |
| 14 | ‘ They had a wonderful pioneering style and pride both in what they had achieved and in what they could teach you . |
| 15 | He went on to describe how Jean-Claude had starved himself , how much weight he had lost and in what condition were the nerves he wore on his sleeve . |
| 16 | In other words , it was n't the spasms that had ended and with it the pain , but the muscle wastage itself . |