Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He also recalls how the monsoon ditches — built to carry away water — had filled up with debris and rubbish and were beginning to smell . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 9 | The horizon had jumped up to where the sky used to be . |
| 10 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 13 | Daak had jumped back into the cabin . |
| 14 | He checked , but only momentarily , then he had jumped down onto the track a knife in his hand . |
| 15 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 16 | Entering the small church at Chivay at the head of the Colca Canyon , children had jumped out of two alcoves and run off laughing . |
| 17 | He had jumped out of bed , washed , shaved , dressed very quickly . |
| 18 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 19 | In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire . |
| 20 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 21 | Maybe he had zoomed off into another body . |
| 22 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 23 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 24 | Who had gazed up at him from his adolescent girlie mags . |
| 25 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 26 | His buffaloes , some ten in number , were straggling up towards the road and he said he would leave as soon as they had grazed up to where he was sitting . |
| 27 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
| 28 | One moment the sun had been hanging above the desert , the next it had plunged out of sight , leaving only the copper and rose and saffron of the water to testify that it had been there . |
| 29 | Already , since the first stage of price liberalization in November 1990 , the cost of living had soared by over 50 per cent . |
| 30 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |