Example sentences of "[coord] had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of respondents had either never heard of the ATB or had found out about it by accident . |
| 2 | The Spanish Civil War was a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality but the image of hope and fears of their generation . |
| 3 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 4 | Nails had woken up abruptly and been angry at being discovered , and had gone out into the grey morning without any conversation beyond the threat about pulping Hoomey if he split . |
| 5 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 6 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 7 | They had n't found anything , and had gone back to their usual haunts . |
| 8 | To finance the French war effort in 1949 had cost them , in US terms , $500 m. — which was greater than the estimated French budgetary deficit for the year — and had eaten up over two-thirds of the annual total of US aid to France . |
| 9 | She and Antonietta had begun to talk about fashion and materials and had moved on to curtains when Gennaro returned . |
| 10 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 11 | Now he was back in his hovel and naked , lying next to a girl who was having a baby and had moved in with him on that account . |
| 12 | It can be likened to becoming ‘ them ’ or no longer being ‘ us ’ , for I had further increased my distance from the working lives of the ‘ real polises ’ and had moved out of their known world to become an outsider , a liminal mover . |
| 13 | Among the other guests lunching were Mr Paul Marmin the managing director of Boucheron , and Mrs Marmin ; Mr and Mrs Hamish Renton , he is a director of Boucheron ; Mr and Mrs Eric Arnott , he is one of the world 's greatest eye surgeons , and had flown over to America that Thursday on a professional trip and flown home on Saturday . |
| 14 | Duncan was dug in at the bottom of the orchard and had called in for a chat on his way from Brigade H.Q He was very interested in bagpipe music , having served with the Gordon Highlanders before joining the Commandos . |
| 15 | Young people of the late sixties and early seventies who were more affluent , had more time and had grown up with an expectation of seeing more of the world , were able to travel far more easily than previous generations . |
| 16 | But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ . |
| 17 | ICI Fibres ' beginnings were with British Nylon Spinners [ BNS ] which was owned equally by ICI and Courtaulds and had grown out of a wartime industry . |
| 18 | Confidence in the government was further lowered by public accusations by Merbah 's predecessor as Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi ( who resigned from the FLN central committee on Oct. 16 ) , that President Chadli Bendjedid had known about a US$26,000,000 corruption scandal involving state contracts , which was currently subject to a parliamentary inquiry , and had covered up for senior ministers involved . |
| 19 | He told thousands of supporters at a rally in Blackburn , Lancs , that the Conservatives did not deserve to win on their economic record , and had run out of ideas for rescuing the country from recession . |
| 20 | Mr Kinnock told thousands of enthusiastic supporters at a rally in Blackburn , Lancs , that the Conservatives did not deserve to win on their economic record , and had run out of ideas for rescuing the country from recession . |
| 21 | He had tried to rise above them , and had fallen back among them , there to be hated once for his attempt , and twice for his failure ! |
| 22 | Wilcock had written about Haynes and his Edinburgh bookshop in the Village Voice soon after it had opened , and had popped up in the one-off Longhair Times too . |
| 23 | So a rumour grew up that perhaps , at the last minute , he had jumped up and caught hold of part of the car and had clambered on to it somehow . |
| 24 | But always , welcoming Nicholas , she was washed , combed and seemly , and had formed out of her obstinacy , it seemed , a frail steely courage that endured where others succumbed . |
| 25 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |
| 26 | They had simply lost their way because the track was obliterated , and had wandered in to oblivion — frozen to death . |
| 27 | The young woman had visited both the museum and the castle before and had looked down from their heights onto the epidemic of streets below , between the top of the hill and the broad curve of the Bay . |
| 28 | Thanks are due to Christine Healey who always helps us and had arrived back from Kenya in time to rearrange the exhibition screens to a more attractive display and thanks also to Mr Derek Andrews , Manager of Blackwell 's , the University Bookshop , for generously sponsoring us this year . |
| 29 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 30 | A Nigerian group , the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights ( CDHR ) , claimed in a report published on April 18 that the security forces had routinely tortured suspects and had carried out at least 27 summary executions in 1991 . |