Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved . |
| 2 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 3 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 4 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 5 | Daak had jumped back into the cabin . |
| 6 | He checked , but only momentarily , then he had jumped down onto the track a knife in his hand . |
| 7 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 8 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 9 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 10 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 11 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 12 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
| 13 | The attendant , now adding a sulk to his sullenness , had shuffled off to the kitchen area . |
| 14 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 15 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 16 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 17 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 18 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 19 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 20 | If a piece of metal had flown out of the machine and blinded Brian , the court could hold that the purpose of the statute was to keep the employee out , not the machine in . |
| 21 | These had boiled down to the supposed constitutionally irregular remark that ‘ something must be done ’ . |
| 22 | Everyone was hungry , but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away . |
| 23 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 25 | School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot . |
| 26 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 27 | In short the movies had broken through to the masses and had the power to pull in almost anybody and everybody who helped constitute the masses . |
| 28 | The Emir Bashir the Third , who ruled Mount Lebanon for the Sublime Porte in Istanbul , had been unable to contain the bitter disputes which had broken out between the two communities . |
| 29 | Attlee 's Labour Party had broken out of the ghetto of solidly working-class support , its 1945 victory being based on the electoral sympathy of a broad section of the middle class . |
| 30 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |