Example sentences of "clothes had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The street clothes had to look as good as the stage clothes . |
| 2 | Frankie 's clothes had been hung to dry over the hot-water pipes at the side of the stove . |
| 3 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 4 | Mr Whistle 's clothes had grown in size with him . |
| 5 | The dry clothes had given her strength . |
| 6 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 7 | At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list . |
| 8 | He was in shirtsleeves , and the shirt did not fit him very well , the buttoned cuffs hanging down over his wrists , like a schoolboy 's whose clothes had been purchased with a view to his ‘ growing into ’ them . |
| 9 | One of the oddities of the situation since her ‘ descent ’ was that most of her clothes had remained in the cupboards upstairs , she had felt unable to go and fetch them , and evidently the other two had felt too embarrassed to carry them down , or perhaps had simply not noticed the problem . |
| 10 | Clothes had been different : our mother 's hat in her wedding photo fascinated us , with its wide brim heavy with flowers , and pictures of all our female relations in their long skirts . |
| 11 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 12 | The yield from the clothes had reached Fulham by sunrise . |
| 13 | But clothes had to be bought , and medicines , and cooking pots and kerosene for the hurricane lamps . |
| 14 | The laundered clothes had fallen every which way and my cases were in a jumbled heap in the back , but we did n't stop . |
| 15 | Her clothes had been a problem . |
| 16 | Their Liberal and Labour opponents , whose foreign policy clothes had been so comprehensively stolen , were reduced to assertions — unconvincing to most voters — that the Government was lying through its teeth . |
| 17 | Her robe lay discarded on the floor ; beside it his own sodden pile of clothes had spread a wet stain of rainwater onto the carpet . |
| 18 | His clothes had burned away instantly , as had all his bodily hair and most of his skin . |
| 19 | Because of the time it took to travel , clothes had to stay packed for long periods , and the number of changes needed throughout the day and evening necessitated quantities of clothes which were packed in different shaped dressing cases , boot boxes , hat boxes , umbrella cases , trunks and suitcases . |
| 20 | The clothes had been left on the heated towel rack in the bathroom , which had taken some of the chill off them , but insinuating himself into their dampness was almost enough to make him retract his jibe , and wear the absent lover 's clothes . |
| 21 | She began to understand that her working clothes had not just to be fashionable but also to cope with the vagaries of walkabouts , the intrusion of photographers and her ever-present enemy , the wind . |
| 22 | Soon the slapping of his own clothes had counterpointed the rhythmic slapping of the dhobis . |
| 23 | His clothes had the look of strays from a parish poor-box . |
| 24 | There was some hope , he supposed , that the clothes had not yet been laundered . |
| 25 | Lynda Kee-Scott 's clothes had to maintain the traditional English country-girl look , but were required to broaden the appeal . |
| 26 | In Deborah 's view the quality of the clothes had to synchronize with the quality of the image . |
| 27 | THE UNDERTAKER 'S CLOTHES had been found on Tuesday evening , and if the news reached Fleet Street news editors , none of them thought it worth mentioning . |
| 28 | The shed where Riddle 's clothes had been found was ahead of him ; the land hereabouts was divided into little fields bounded by dry-stone walls , but cultivation had ceased long ago and the fields were choked with bracken and bramble . |
| 29 | Riven found that a set of finer clothes had been left out for him , probably by Madra . |
| 30 | Every scrap of personal property was removed from his pockets , and every maker 's label on his clothes had been cut out . |