Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 2 | Peggy Monroe was young and her wounds had healed over . |
| 3 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 4 | Someone had ripped out the cables — more proof of attention to detail . |
| 5 | Then it got flooded because people had ripped out the pipes next door , which was empty too . " |
| 6 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 7 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 8 | The rain was splashing on the concrete , and the hole in it that he used to pretend was the way to Australia had filled up . |
| 9 | When they had all left and her father , the grave-digger , had filled up the grave , Nigel would be alone . |
| 10 | Always till now that had filled up the moment |
| 11 | The sunken eyes had filled up again with pus and gazed apathetically ahead . |
| 12 | Her mother had filled up her own glass , but Kate became painfully aware that she was nervous as she sat opposite her daughter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He also recalls how the monsoon ditches — built to carry away water — had filled up with debris and rubbish and were beginning to smell . |
| 15 | He had filled out , too , with broad shoulders and strong though not overly muscular arms . |
| 16 | Since marrying the rector she had filled out , and she had such clear blue eyes which reminded Betty of others she had seen , though she could n't place where it was . |
| 17 | She had filled out a little since Sarah had last seen her and she was no longer drab . |
| 18 | His face had filled out , the slight hollows beneath his cheekbones owing nothing to hunger and serving only to accentuate his agreeable features ; the slight tilt of his nose , the long , Irish upper lip , the blueness of his eyes . |
| 19 | Liza , she was glad to note , had filled out . |
| 20 | William looked up at her and Hari smiled , pleased with the way his cheeks had filled out and that the set of his shoulders was straight now , his fear of violence having given way to a new confidence in himself . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One of the other Germans emptied it and I recognized among the papers the interrogation form which the naval officer on the island had filled in . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Stewart had filled in the V62 form while standing in the queue moments before staging the hold-up , the jury heard . |
| 26 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 27 | By July , Wolfgang had been rewarded for his efforts with a formal appointment to the post he had filled in an honorary capacity — on and off — for the past three years , that of konzertmeister . |
| 28 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 29 | She was known to be one of the little ones who had filled in their colouring books irreverently , making our Lord 's beard purple , or even green , largely , to be sure , because she never bothered to get hold of the best crayons first . |
| 30 | Especially of interest was the fact that one of the two men clearly experiencing difficulty with section ( c ) on the examination paper , Howard Brown ( Morse wondered why his wife had n't been willing to cover for him ) , had filled in section ( e ) with the correct date of arrival , 27 October ; or , to be more precise about the matter , ‘ 2 October ’ . |