Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course it 's Silas , ’ Bertha had exclaimed irritably within five minutes of Lucy 's arrival at the large house nestling among trees and gardens in the most expensive area of Hastings . |
| 2 | The ministers whom the bishops had placed instead of those ejected were very poor in both their spiritual quality and ministerial ability . |
| 3 | ( Many years before , an uncle of mine had run along the top of that wall carrying a doormat which he had placed carefully on top of the chimney of the little building adjacent called the Reading Room . |
| 4 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 5 | By ten past nine the entrance and drive-way of the Grand Hotel had filled up with eager Tories , wearing their photo-passes with all the pride of the Old Contemptibles , conference agendas to hand . |
| 6 | He also recalls how the monsoon ditches — built to carry away water — had filled up with debris and rubbish and were beginning to smell . |
| 7 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 8 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 9 | The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved . |
| 10 | Other groups such as the Essene sect had withdrawn completely from society to await the eschatological consummation of the Kingdom . |
| 11 | He had withdrawn there on the advice of several people ( including myself ) that Downing Street was an impossible place for anyone whose curiosity extended to seeing every telegram that came in at whatever time of the day or night . |
| 12 | He had withdrawn early with his guests , for they were bent on leaving next morning , and their business with him was not for the openness of the hall . |
| 13 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 14 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 15 | Caro 's widowed mother had remarried only in recent years and her new husband already had four children , all grown up and living away from home . |
| 16 | Duncan had guessed right about it being a Shogun , the smaller , two-door version . |
| 17 | Somehow my pursuer had guessed correctly at every turn . |
| 18 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 19 | As other departments , such as Visual Effects , joined in the unofficial boycott of Doctor Who ( see Chapter Five ) , Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and their team had to fall back on ingenuity from their Designers and Directors , plus backing from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson who both maintained great faith in the prospects of the show . |
| 20 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 21 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 22 | I had to fall back on that many time . |
| 23 | But always , welcoming Nicholas , she was washed , combed and seemly , and had formed out of her obstinacy , it seemed , a frail steely courage that endured where others succumbed . |
| 24 | Florian had referred blithely to Luke 's owning them , with regard to his interest in the radio station , when in fact he was liberal in the extent of the leeway he allowed them , but in a personal relationship , she knew with sudden bone-deep conviction , his ownership would be total . |
| 25 | The administration pointed out that Cheney had referred specifically to " force structures , bases and weapons systems affecting the US-based military " , and had also said that " defence contracts would be terminated " . |
| 26 | If the Plowden Committee had referred therefore to ‘ the social changes of the last thirty years ’ instead of fifteen , they would have been guilty of no inaccuracy . |
| 27 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 28 | The horizon had jumped up to where the sky used to be . |
| 29 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 30 | When the local doctor , confounded by the sparrow size of his patients , informed the couple that they were to become parents , llya Holovich had dropped her lined and weary face to her chest and wept , and Stepan Holovich had jumped up from his chair and then scratched between his thin grey hair and laughed . |