Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches . |
| 2 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 3 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 4 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 5 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 6 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 7 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 8 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
| 9 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 10 | He had joined them out of the press in the midst of a guard of taciturn Merkut troopers who were economical in their employment of the brute force necessary to clear their master 's path . |
| 11 | Shama had joined us along with the Sheikha 's mother , a tall , fine-boned woman with compassionate , intelligent eyes . |
| 12 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 13 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 14 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 15 | She had curled herself up in a corner of the motorspeeder to get some rest , but there was too much adrenalin swimming aimlessly about her system and her eyes kept opening themselves . |
| 16 | He had hustled her out of the kitchen into the boudoir and kissed her on the lips , slipping his arm round her waist . |
| 17 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 18 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 19 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 20 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 21 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 22 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 23 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 24 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 25 | In that time , its geography had changed little , the only difference being that more and more houses had squeezed themselves on to the mound of detritus that had built up over generations to form the hill on which the city squatted , above the highest level of flood the river could attain . |
| 26 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 27 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 28 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 29 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 30 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |