Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 2 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 3 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 4 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 5 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 6 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 7 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 8 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 9 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 10 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 11 | In the heat of a sultry evening , Britain had the fitness and the heart to outlast the clever Koreans and it was Sixsmith who got the winner , poaching in the area after the ball had pinballed around from a short corner . |
| 12 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |
| 13 | The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale . |
| 14 | Clashes between riot police and demonstrators had broken out during a student demonstration outside the Education Ministry on Oct. 24 . |
| 15 | It was making her heartbeat erratic , and her whole body had broken out in a fine dew of perspiration . |
| 16 | On the evening of Saturday 30 January , a fire had broken out in a process area on the mezzanine floor of the building . |
| 17 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 18 | Had to go up to a hundred . |
| 19 | feet of the cow was not in the original photograph so I had to go up to a a farm and ask for straw to hide the |
| 20 | I had to go round with a can of milk ! |
| 21 | they had to go round with a blow lamp to get the frost and the dew in those big houses |
| 22 | And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth . |
| 23 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 24 | ‘ She had to go out for a moment . ’ |
| 25 | No matter the weather , one had to go out to a privy next to a coalshed in the backyard . |
| 26 | the pit and the the circular with a saw you know , the wood , they had to go down in a in a pit . |
| 27 | And a foul by Whitlow on Rozario and pain written all over Robert Rozario 's face and we saw that the last time we had a Nottingham Forest live game when he collided with a post up at Bolton Wanderers and had to go off with a rib and facial injuries . |
| 28 | The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage . |
| 29 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 30 | The club , by now had spilled out into a sort of annexe conservatory at the back of the room and by the time the summer arrived , people were spilling out into the garden and , in fact , used to come into the club by this route illegally . |