Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By ten past nine the entrance and drive-way of the Grand Hotel had filled up with eager Tories , wearing their photo-passes with all the pride of the Old Contemptibles , conference agendas to hand . |
| 2 | He also recalls how the monsoon ditches — built to carry away water — had filled up with debris and rubbish and were beginning to smell . |
| 3 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 4 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 7 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 8 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 9 | As other departments , such as Visual Effects , joined in the unofficial boycott of Doctor Who ( see Chapter Five ) , Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and their team had to fall back on ingenuity from their Designers and Directors , plus backing from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson who both maintained great faith in the prospects of the show . |
| 10 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 11 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 12 | I had to fall back on that many time . |
| 13 | But always , welcoming Nicholas , she was washed , combed and seemly , and had formed out of her obstinacy , it seemed , a frail steely courage that endured where others succumbed . |
| 14 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 15 | The horizon had jumped up to where the sky used to be . |
| 16 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 17 | When the local doctor , confounded by the sparrow size of his patients , informed the couple that they were to become parents , llya Holovich had dropped her lined and weary face to her chest and wept , and Stepan Holovich had jumped up from his chair and then scratched between his thin grey hair and laughed . |
| 18 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 19 | Daak had jumped back into the cabin . |
| 20 | He checked , but only momentarily , then he had jumped down onto the track a knife in his hand . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Entering the small church at Chivay at the head of the Colca Canyon , children had jumped out of two alcoves and run off laughing . |
| 23 | He had jumped out of bed , washed , shaved , dressed very quickly . |
| 24 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 25 | In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Maybe he had zoomed off into another body . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 30 | For her to love me , I had to carry on with my secret life . |