Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 2 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 3 | Someone had ripped out the cables — more proof of attention to detail . |
| 4 | Then it got flooded because people had ripped out the pipes next door , which was empty too . " |
| 5 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 6 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 7 | When they had all left and her father , the grave-digger , had filled up the grave , Nigel would be alone . |
| 8 | Always till now that had filled up the moment |
| 9 | She had filled out a little since Sarah had last seen her and she was no longer drab . |
| 10 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 11 | Stewart had filled in the V62 form while standing in the queue moments before staging the hold-up , the jury heard . |
| 12 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 13 | Whilst he was gone , Morse turned to the back of The Times and had filled in the whole of the bottom right-hand quarter of the crossword when Lewis returned two minutes later . |
| 14 | and and also not all erm there was reference made to , I ca n't remember which company it was , but somebody , you know , who was th not particularly literate had filled in the book . |
| 15 | By July , Wolfgang had been rewarded for his efforts with a formal appointment to the post he had filled in an honorary capacity — on and off — for the past three years , that of konzertmeister . |
| 16 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
| 17 | She had to carry along a spare one which belongs to her mum yesterday , in case the one she has had since 1984 became damaged . |
| 18 | She is also claiming compensation because doctors had to carry out a lifesaving hysterectomy . |
| 19 | A second-hand car which is not safe to be driven on the road ( for example because the brakes are in such a state that they would fail if the driver had to carry out an emergency stop ) is clearly not of merchantable quality , Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 C.A. ) — unless of course the car was only sold for scrap . |
| 20 | Instead , a ‘ position de barrage ’ a well-organised defensive wall was to be erected along the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had traced out the night he took over command . |
| 21 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 22 | The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard . |
| 23 | We entered the very horse show that we had to sit out the year before . |
| 24 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 25 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 26 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 27 | If it turned out that Mrs A had gathered up the keys , the , arrest would be unlawful . |
| 28 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 29 | Diana had gathered together a small staff who were learning the ropes as fast as she was . |
| 30 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |