Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 3 | In dark trousers and with the sleeves of a pristine white shirt rolled up to reveal golden , muscled forearms , Vitor had obviously walked straight out from behind his desk and into his car . |
| 4 | The Warlords had already marched right out of the arena . |
| 5 | He turned to Marian but she had already plunged far down into unconsciousness , overwhelmed by the need for sleep . |
| 6 | The whole bizarre situation had finally slid right out of control . |
| 7 | He looked as if he had just stepped straight out of one of those bespoke tailors in Saville Row in London 's West End . |
| 8 | ‘ I think so , ’ answered Mildred , though in fact she had made up the tale on the spur of the moment and it had somehow got rather out of hand . |
| 9 | I remembered a phrase I had once copied down out of Don Quixote : |
| 10 | Her massive bosom was heaving in and out and the splash of water down the front of it made a dark wet patch that had probably soaked right through to her skin . |
| 11 | Kennedy , he said , had no previous conviction but in this , his first crime , he had clearly gone straight in at the deep end . |
| 12 | The local security equipment retailers had clearly done well out of Ruggiero Miletti 's kidnapping . |
| 13 | When I went to find her , however , I discovered she had gone right to the top of the house to talk to Heathcliff through his locked bedroom door , and had then climbed out on to the roof and in through his window . |