Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Shama had joined us along with the Sheikha 's mother , a tall , fine-boned woman with compassionate , intelligent eyes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 13 | He had hustled her out of the kitchen into the boudoir and kissed her on the lips , slipping his arm round her waist . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 18 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 21 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 25 | Ward 's payment was agreed with Saunders ‘ a man who had huge authority in that company because he had picked it up by the scruff of the neck and transformed it . ’ |
| 26 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 27 | No matter what Joe 's and Tamar 's earlier lives had been , both were respectably married now and their father had accepted them back into the fold . |
| 28 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 29 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 30 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |