Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the three men who had drunk and joked together that evening at Amstetten had since wandered out into the dark . |
| 2 | Kylie had cathartically climbed out of her demure old skin into a naughtier new one — with the world watching . |
| 3 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 4 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 5 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 6 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 7 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 8 | However the Earl John had duly turned up at Edinburgh , with one hundred and fifty men and the information that the enemy had passed well to the east of Doune . |
| 9 | He sent most of his staff into the embassy vault where they set about burning and shredding the classified papers that remained ( he had most shipped out of the country already ) , destroying the cryptographic equipment and dismantling the controlling element in the satellite communications station . |
| 10 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |
| 11 | Her name had rarely cropped up after that . |
| 12 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 13 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |
| 14 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 15 | He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor . |
| 16 | At the same time the press had been tipped off that the Health Minister was leaving the country on holiday from Heathrow and half a dozen photographers had literally chased on to the runway to photograph him . |
| 17 | He had a fleeting image of a bar , of the people inside , of someone singing Chris Rea 's : ‘ Joys of Christmas , Northern Style ’ , and then it had all flashed by in less than a second . |
| 18 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 19 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 20 | And then back home with Ted and Frieda both asleep and Jo gone , it had all burst up in tears Maggie had squashed down with cigarettes . |
| 21 | Once surrender had been agreed to , it was obvious that the Partisans had one object , and that was to secure , as they termed it , the " Booty of War " … within an incredibly short time , certainly less than twenty minutes , the Partisans had all emerged out of the hills and lined the main road for several thousand yards . |
| 22 | And Fenella remembered the thin , frayed legend of how the Earth-people , at one time in their history , had created a race of machines and how they had then created machines to run the machines and how it had all got out of hand . |
| 23 | As far as any of them knew , the last elephant fights had taken place around the turn of the century in the princely states of Rajputana ; and as for partridge fights , said my friends , those sorts of Mughal traditions had all died out at Partition . |
| 24 | They had all squeezed in behind the driver for the run to Canterbury , where there was a Jaguar agent . |
| 25 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 26 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 27 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 28 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 29 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 30 | In the first week of the forty-day share sale period , the unions only invested £871,000 , and two weeks before the closing date the total had only crept up to £927,500 . |