Example sentences of "[noun] had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse had barely stepped on to the gravelly riverbed at the edge of the ford when it stumbled , almost falling to its knees . |
| 2 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 3 | Army Television Channel 5 in Thailand reported on Jan. 9 that fighting had recently broken out between Lao government and rebel forces in Vientiane province . |
| 4 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
| 5 | Blood had initially drained down to the back of the neck , thighs and mid-back . ’ |
| 6 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 7 | Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again . |
| 8 | Indeed , Branson had often gone out of his way to avoid newspaper or television interviews . |
| 9 | As she sank by the bed , pressing her ear to Aunt Emily 's heart beneath its layers of lace , Aunt Emily 's little boat had already slipped quietly over the horizon . |
| 10 | If only the clothes had been plainer and more suitable for the vicar 's wife of such a poor parish , ’ Sophia lamented , holding up the lame cocktail dress whose belt Faustina had now taken out into the hall . |
| 11 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 12 | A committee at the Ministry of Labour had also worked out with industrialists methods of shifting the hours of work to avoid the winter peak times , and this load spreading helped a lot to contain industrial peak demand at these crucial times . |
| 13 | Labour had actually moved ahead of the Tories in some polls at the start of August 1978 . |
| 14 | In fact Edward had never felt less like laughing . |
| 15 | The accent on rural industry had actually increased heavily over the years prior to 1922 . |
| 16 | Kylie had cathartically climbed out of her demure old skin into a naughtier new one — with the world watching . |
| 17 | It was true that the two had attended a house auction , but Kylie had simply gone along as a friend while Jason bid for the house he wanted to buy for himself . |
| 18 | But , indulging a passion more secret than her love for Italian painting , Molly had early gone off with Holmes and Watson in a cab through the pea-souper , or sat on the edge of her chair while Poirot summoned the guests to assemble in the library after tea . |
| 19 | This is a point which it would be useless to push too far ; the pose of the second figure from the left in the Demoiselles , for instance , was one which Picasso had already used frequently in his earlier work . |
| 20 | Picasso had never shown publicly at the big Salons , but Braque 's Cubist works exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1909 were widely discussed and were undoubtedly an influence on some painters , while they must have helped others to interpret Cézanne in a more intellectual , objective way . |
| 21 | By creating a few developmental teams covering comparatively large areas , Nottinghamshire had also departed radically from the National Development Group for the Mentally Handicapped ( 1977 ) model of a CMHT . |
| 22 | However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The influence had already rubbed off on former team-mate Ally McCoist , who was dropped from a vital old firm derby in 1991 for going on a prohibited trip to the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 25 | Because the women in my family and most families in Scotland had always gone out to work . |
| 26 | His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours . |
| 27 | But Rufus admitted to himself that the beauties of nature and architecture had never meant much to him . |
| 28 | That was the most personally evocative thing of all , Sabine thought , wincing , and she could understand why Hugh had always shied away from clearing out his wife 's things . |
| 29 | Although Syria 's relations with the USA had improved rapidly after the Iraqi invasion , relations between the countries had already grown closer during 1989 and early 1990 [ see pp. 37391 ; 37392 ] . |
| 30 | Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order . |