Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 2 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 3 | The few small cottages which had once made up the village community had been bulldozed into the ground and their occupants moved into the grey and faceless high-rise apartment blocks of the new urban development . |
| 4 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 5 | She had already started down the scree of debris in pursuit . |
| 6 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 7 | Eddie had cut away most of his thin nondescript hair , cropping it close to the skull , and she had also cut back the hair on his forehead , giving him a pronounced widow 's peak . |
| 8 | She had religiously sought out the warrant officer chef every day to offer him her tail , and by the sixth day she had him purring like a kitten . |
| 9 | The bed was untidy , as though she had merely pulled up the covers . |
| 10 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 11 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 12 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 13 | I could n't bring myself to believe it , and after I had visited Cooper in Maidstone Prison and McMahon in Long Lartin Prison and spoken to their two solicitors , Gareth Peirce for Cooper and Wendy Mantle for McMahon , as well as to Tom Sargant , the secretary of JUSTICE , who had also taken up the case , I was convinced that they were as innocent of the Luton murder as I was . |
| 14 | Hindenburg , who had taken part in the victorious campaigns of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 , was now built up into a father figure : the old general who had again thrown back the invaders of the Fatherland . |
| 15 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 16 | Minto summoned the man who had recently taken over the Headington practice from the household 's former practitioner , Dr Wood . |
| 17 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 18 | The theme of Stalingrad was becoming rapidly a major embarrassment to the propagandists , especially those on the Wehrmacht staff , who had prematurely whipped up the victory atmosphere in September . |
| 19 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 20 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 21 | As well as its management of the floating debt , it had increasingly taken over the handling of the service payments on the funded debt , and it held the balances of many departments of state as well as of provincial tax gatherers . |
| 22 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 23 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 24 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 25 | In some ways it hardly seemed to exist ; in another way , it had almost brought about the death of all three . |
| 26 | He had notionally divided up the Iranian government into a fanatic wing , an extremely fanatic wing , a bridge group and a ‘ right-wing group ’ that leaned towards the West . |
| 27 | He had thus paid off the princes and the pope . |
| 28 | Rory had driven up and slipped into her bed like lightning , because he had already cooked up the plan to try and entice Jessica Roberts to go with him to Galway , and needed to sweeten Rosie for another evening 's absence . |
| 29 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 30 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |