Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 2 | He looked at her derisively and left her to it , drinking the coffee he had made and sitting at the table . |
| 3 | In every case , the purchaser had visited and stayed at the site before buying . |
| 4 | I believe that she had , as she said , seen every point that I had wished to make , and had laughed and cried at the right places . |
| 5 | For a moment , the Doctor toyed lightly with the simularity crystal he had found while looking at the blood on the floor . |
| 6 | ‘ No , your Grace , for when he mustered what force he had left and drove at the Welsh knights , he could both ride and fight , and so did , and well . |
| 7 | HIS mother and her boyfriend had rowed and split at the weekend . |