Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 4 | I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines . |
| 5 | Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway . |
| 6 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
| 7 | Alyssia smiled back and wondered whether she should pretend that she had somehow ended up at the wrong address . |
| 8 | She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd . |
| 9 | It all hurt , but at least she had now got back at him , and she did n't have to see his face to know he was furious . |
| 10 | I myself found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked tomahawk , of an inch and a half in length , together with some slips of blue cotton rags , which the birds had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of the natives . ’ |
| 11 | He had actually slumped down at the breakfast table before he became aware of Kelly 's presence . |
| 12 | It was as if the news had never come through at all . |