Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Indeed , Branson had often gone out of his way to avoid newspaper or television interviews . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In fact Edward had never felt less like laughing . |
| 6 | Kylie had cathartically climbed out of her demure old skin into a naughtier new one — with the world watching . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Because the women in my family and most families in Scotland had always gone out to work . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order . |
| 16 | Snodgrass , who had studied more sketches and impressions of the lost castles and palaces of Earth than he could remember , said he thought that nothing like Tara had ever existed anywhere in any world . |
| 17 | Borja had earlier responded positively to a letter of Nov. 24 from Fujimori proposing a " friendship , co-operation and integration " pact under the 1942 Rio de Janeiro protocol whose validity Ecuador refused to acknowledge . |
| 18 | And when Jumblatt insisted that he would order his men to advance into east Beirut , Assad had angrily walked out of the meeting . |
| 19 | Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget . |
| 20 | FOR Captain Marvel read Captain Miracle : Bryan Robson , whom England had sadly written out of their plans for the World Cup qualifying match against Poland a week tomorrow , may be fit to play in Chorzow after all . |
| 21 | This is the date England had originally set aside for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin but which both Robson and Jack Charlton agreed to abandon when they found themselves paired in the same World Cup group . |
| 22 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 23 | Lizzie had just returned home on Sunday evening and was parking her car when the man pounced . |
| 24 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 25 | Bonard had just emerged on to the terrace . |
| 26 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 27 | Mr Stevenson had also worked away from his home in Leyland , Lancashire before . |
| 28 | They did not talk much till they reached Drobeta-Turnu Severin , where the Danube had once passed spectacularly through the Iron Gates . |
| 29 | The trouble was that Deborah had never come back through the wood before , only the one way — to Pack Meetings . |
| 30 | Stephen had already set off down the path . |