Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 32 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 33 | Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test . |
| 34 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 35 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 36 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 37 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 38 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 39 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 40 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
| 41 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 42 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 43 | It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . |
| 44 | It was very quiet and the noises from the wood became distinguishable , as if the wood itself had suddenly moved down nearer the track . |
| 45 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 46 | There was a burst of male laughter from the bar , which had suddenly filled up with men wearing MCC ties ; the day 's play at Lord 's would have ended just about twenty minutes ago . |
| 47 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 48 | She slumped back in her chair , strangely deflated as though all the fight had suddenly gone out of her . |
| 49 | As they passed close to the couple at table both the women recoiled as if the Devil himself had suddenly sprung up between them . |
| 50 | But she still did n't have any idea why he had suddenly barged back into her life like this . |
| 51 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 52 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 53 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 54 | They reduced the number of questions , leaving more room for follow up — this despite the fact that some groups had apparently run out of questions the previous week . |
| 55 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 56 | I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines . |
| 57 | Army Group E had included seven army corps , one of which , the 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps , had already broken through to Austria and surrendered to the British . |
| 58 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 59 | As Shklovsky had already pointed out in his essay on ‘ Art as technique ’ ( although the implications of his remarks were not fully drawn out until later ) form and order can themselves act as powerful automatizing factors . |
| 60 | She was delighted at having the chance to work with one of the rock world 's most distinguished performers who had already branched out into the movie business . |