Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] at [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 2 | The new US position led to a closing of ASEAN ranks , with little evidence of the internal quarrelling over Cambodia which had surfaced at the 22nd annual meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brunei in 1989 . |
| 3 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 4 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 5 | But the Dartford player , who had started at the 10th in his second round , failed to reach the green and dropped a shot . |
| 6 | In Brightside the Unionist candidate had been specially demobilised for the election ; the Central Office agent for Yorkshire persuaded him to stand down , but it took a visit to Central Office before his supporters could be persuaded to support a Coalition Liberal that they had opposed at the last three elections . |
| 7 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 8 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 9 | The judges decided 7-0 against Mr Santos on the grounds that the party he had joined at the last minute in order to stand , the little-known Brazilian Municipalist Party which was founded by Pentecostal preachers , had failed to register in time . |
| 10 | Look what had happened at the last seance . |