Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
2 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
3 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
4 | This was their eighth win from 10 games and they achieved the result without the likes of Mick Harford , Paul Elliott and Robert Fleck , who had gone off by the time Newton struck . |
5 | The Belgian , who had popped out of the clinches to snatch narrow verdicts in three mass sprint finishes , settled the race with a remarkable show in the 40km time trial . |
6 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
7 | During the inter-war period , when housing expectations among women were rising , one Medical Officer of Health found that mortality rates amongst families who had moved out of a slum area into new council houses actually rose , because correspondingly less was being spent on food . |
8 | One evening in their local pub , the Dog & Rabbit , an old gentleman who had moved out of the district on retirement , returned to visit his daughter who lived in the area . |
9 | Chuck glanced around inquiringly at Jacques Devraux , who had moved out into the plain with his son and Flavia Sherman . |
10 | The derelict gardens were rescued by Davyd , who had moved down from the mountains of Wales to the plains of East Anglia , but remained very Welsh , his accent giving authority to everything he said . |
11 | When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked . |
12 | Thakin Ba Sein , the first leader of Do-Bama Asi-Ayone , who had fallen out with the younger Thakins and formed a rival party , came in . |
13 | So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg . |
14 | Boyfriend Garry Curtis , of Bedhampton , Hants , dragged her to safety — and rescuers arrived to find the couple , who had fallen out at a party , kissing and hugging . |
15 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
16 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
17 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
18 | What neither German radio nor the public knew was that the Duke of Buccleuch was placed under house arrest on his estates in Scotland , several aristocrats were personally warned by Churchill that if they talked of peace they would be jailed , and Lord Londonderry was questioned inconclusively about a meeting that was alleged to have taken place on his Mountstewart estate in Northern Ireland with four German agents who had travelled up through the Free State . |
19 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
20 | Her daughter , who had turned back to the window on her mother 's entry , sulkily moved a pile of film magazines and dropped them on the floor . |
21 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
22 | But there was qualifying joy for other athletes who had missed out at the county championships , including Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier Stephen Helm . |
23 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
24 | He was the Republicans ' defeated presidential candidate in 1960 , and the man who had stomped out of a press conference in 1962 when he failed to win the governorship of California , telling the reporters that they would n't ‘ have Nixon to kick around any more ’ . |
25 | Sarah , who had leaned out of the window to see the house , sat down again , smiling and blinking at the water drawn into her eyes by the cold and the wind . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | He listened to Nigel Cramer for several minutes , nodded and gave his own orders to the dozen men who had clambered out of the second and third helicopters . |
28 | ‘ Like it ? ’ asked Sergeant , who had dashed round through the gate and now welcomed them on the other side . |
29 | Yevdoxia , who had grown up with the belief that sex was disgusting even at normal times , had refused to take any more of it , ever . |
30 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |