Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case concerned a rusty old car which had belonged to one M. The structure of the car had rusted at the sides of the engine compartment and M had attempted to repair this with plastic body filler . |
| 2 | The car had stopped at the quarry in the pitch darkness , and , Mr O'Donnell said , he had been dragged out and beaten again by the men , including McPherson . |
| 3 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 4 | Her business mind had jumped at the chance of a spot of international acclaim . |
| 5 | Thirty three of the 36 patients in the study had died at the end of the study period , 21 ( 87% ) in the chemotherapy group , and all 12 in the supportive care group . |
| 6 | Over the third quarter of this year , he told parliament , output by Soviet industry had risen at a rate of one per cent while wages were soaring at an annual pace of 15 per cent . |
| 7 | At the end of the first week Allaf was particularly critical of the Israeli delegation 's tactics , saying that the Israeli delegation had arrived at the talks with a " premeditated determination not to allow any progress " . |
| 8 | The crisis of modernism had arisen at the beginning of the century as a consequence of the profound , perhaps too rapid , infiltration of Catholic institutions and consciousness by the scholarly methods and intellectual attitudes and presuppositions which had developed earlier in predominantly Protestant and liberal milieus . |
| 9 | We do not know precisely what stage the likelihood of significant harm had reached at the time when Thorpe J. gave his judgment on 12 May 1992 , but , he spoke of the need to strike |
| 10 | News had spread that some kind of scene had occurred at the Burgermeister 's pre-production party . |
| 11 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 12 | Work had resumed at the mine only two days before the disaster following a 15-day strike over pay and poor safety conditions . |
| 13 | The crash had occurred at a time of clear visibility and good weather conditions . |
| 14 | The sole previous Airbus crash had occurred at an air show in France in 1988 [ see p. 36230 ] . |
| 15 | Topaz had shuddered at the horror of it , but could n't help weaving a future in which Andrew sought her out , courted her , and finally offered for her hand . |
| 16 | Failing to pass through it , or change their strategy and invest the compound from another route , over the fence , as he had done , their plan had stalled at the resistance the settlers were able to muster at that very node . |
| 17 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 18 | The Queen had said at a banquet given by Emperor Akihito that the atrocities had caused a " deep gulf " between the two countries ; Netherlands figures indicated that some 21,320 of the 138,500 internees had died during their internment . |
| 19 | By the time the Scotland team had arrived at the Sierras hotel in Alta Gracia the rot had set in . |
| 20 | So although the ERP had to persist for several hundred milliseconds before the subject felt anything , they nevertheless reported that the sensation had occurred at the moment when the ERP was beginning . |
| 21 | The evening had commenced at a restaurant where Rune had introduced her to koldt bord , the pan-Scandinavian cold buffet-style spread , while he 'd taken the opportunity of finding out more details about Suzie , including her appearance . |
| 22 | One normally expects to see all the best opera , ballet and musical talent on this tour , but our group had arrived at the tail-end of a meeting of Comecon heads of state , the National Gymnastics Championships were in full swing and quite unexpectedly , a British delegation led by Sir Geoffrey Howe had arrived for peace talks . |
| 23 | The NRC stressed that no accident had occurred at the plant . |
| 24 | And last night it was revealed that the murdered child 's body had lain at the scene for over four hours because of fears of another blast . |
| 25 | Everything Rain had seen at the Maurin gallery and everything the Contessa Mantero had shown her compared unfavourably with this painting . |
| 26 | It tasted of candied peel and nuts , and she was reaching for another one when she saw that Lucenzo 's head had lifted at the sound of a child 's piping tones . |
| 27 | Figures for the twelve months ending in January 1981 showed that Virgin had traded at a loss of £900,000 . |
| 28 | By the time we had dressed the first grey light of the day had appeared at the window . |
| 29 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 30 | It was about six miles , a fair way for children , but we delighted in the story of what my father had done at the age of six . |