Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Labour had actually moved ahead of the Tories in some polls at the start of August 1978 . |
| 10 | The accent on rural industry had actually increased heavily over the years prior to 1922 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours . |
| 14 | But Rufus admitted to himself that the beauties of nature and architecture had never meant much to him . |
| 15 | Quickly she read the article , then handed the paper to Fred , wondering why she felt as though the bottom had just fallen out of her world . |
| 16 | The leadership team had now dropped down from three to two as one of the leaders could not make the trip due to work commitments so the driving was split equally between co-leader Dave Lowe and myself . |
| 17 | On one site the author recalls contacting the oldest locals , who advised that a site had only flooded once in living memory and they were only too pleased to point out a ’ flood line ’ still just visible on a number of buildings in the area after 30 years . |
| 18 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 19 | The guerrillas , who stormed the hotel early on Tuesday morning , trapping 87 guests including the OAU secretary-general had already slipped away before dawn . |
| 20 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
| 21 | The group had then ridden away across the river . |
| 22 | The Kenyan-born allrounder had once come close to playing for England . |
| 23 | It was as if all the Wandas and Melissas of her imagination had just drifted ceilingwards with the steam . |
| 24 | But before they had reached the back gate a few drops of rain had already plopped warningly on their heads . |
| 25 | His Defence Counsel said he 'd suffered a great deal since his arrest and said the real punishment had already happened away from court . |
| 26 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 27 | On the day before the April 18 announcement , the President of the Serbian state presidency , Slobodan Milosevic , had declared that Serbia 's own internal affairs secretariat had now taken over from the federal authorities in administering public security in the province . |
| 28 | Her name had rarely cropped up after that . |
| 29 | It would be an illogical result , I think , if the paragraph gave a protection to a widow which the court had expressly taken away from her deceased husband , on whose tenancy she relies , that tenancy having been brought to a suspended end by the order for possession . |
| 30 | The stuff had just stayed there for years , and Mum had n't been interested , but then people started talking about Dad , and writing to her , and sending pieces they 'd written on him . |