Example sentences of "had [verb] [indef pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were therefore very disappointed when Ms de Jonghe found she had to cancel everything at practically the last minute . |
| 2 | Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time . |
| 3 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 4 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 5 | DS Tony Bull , of Clacton CID , said police officers were anxious to hear from anyone who had seen anything at the premises between about 7.45pm on Sunday and 7.30am on Monday . |
| 6 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 7 | Wordsworth 's first publications , An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches , appeared in 1793 ; the aim was to bring his name before the public as he felt he had done nothing at university — and , of course , the faint hope of making money . |
| 8 | Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all . |
| 9 | He spent many hours of darkness , sweating lightly in spite or the autumn and early winter cold , wishing some of his replies unsaid , and wishing above all that he had said anything at all after the examiner 's last remark . |
| 10 | Medieval town planners , as many cities further north bear witness , would have provided a more sensible plan if they had provided one at all . |
| 11 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 12 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 13 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 14 | Until now it had meant nothing at all , but now she really knew what it meant . |
| 15 | True , we had discovered nothing at Glastonbury or of why Cosmas and Damien had been killed . |
| 16 | If he had drunk anything at all , it had left him . |
| 17 | He asked if Anna had mentioned anything at all about her attacker that might prove useful to him . |
| 18 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |