Example sentences of "had [adv] got [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 3 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 4 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 5 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
| 6 | To her surprise , the gunfire did n't seem to be directed at them , and she wondered if the rebels and soldiers had finally got around to fighting each other directly . |
| 7 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 8 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
| 9 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 10 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 11 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 12 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 13 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 14 | Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it . |
| 15 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 16 | He flapped his warrant card in automatic greeting and waved a hand at Catherine who had also got out of the car . |
| 17 | Dr Kumar said John Major 's attacks on the Liberal Democrats had clearly got through to middle-income earners terrified by the thought of a Labour Government . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 20 | Bragg and Morton had barely got back to their office when a young constable Poked his head round the door . |
| 21 | Salieri had never got on with Leopold II , and in 1790 he had been released from most of his court obligations , remaining as a kind of honorary kapellmeister . |
| 22 | The children emerged from the elaborate wrought-iron school gates , which were red with rust-preventer but had never got around to being painted . |
| 23 | Admittedly she had never got around to telling him that the invitation was off . |
| 24 | Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before . |