Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pointed to different sections which had discoloured almost in a wavy pattern . |
| 2 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 3 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 4 | We passed giant slabs of ice which had buckled up into a cracked swelling over a rock and saw ice discs spinning on the surface of the water like root-less lily pads . |
| 5 | Colbert went wet again in 1982 , there 's an active local theatre group , and some people in the area are in the process of restoring and reopening the Ritz — which had survived mainly as a warehouse , and briefly as a recording studio in 1957 — putting on plays , and possibly a film series too . |
| 6 | He stooped to retrieve an ear-ring which had dropped out of a blouse he was holding . |
| 7 | Her pains , which had started long before a frightened Rose , acting as an amateur midwife , had thought to send for him , had stopped — a bad sign . |
| 8 | What had started out as a quest for metallic hydrogen now became a serious hunt for fusion . |
| 9 | What had started out as a bad day had suddenly become brighter . |
| 10 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 11 | But what had started out as a dream come true had , within hours of their leaving England , turned into a nightmare . |