Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] at the [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 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | News had spread that some kind of scene had occurred at the Burgermeister 's pre-production party . |
| 10 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 11 | Work had resumed at the mine only two days before the disaster following a 15-day strike over pay and poor safety conditions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By the time the Scotland team had arrived at the Sierras hotel in Alta Gracia the rot had set in . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The NRC stressed that no accident had occurred at the plant . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Everything Rain had seen at the Maurin gallery and everything the Contessa Mantero had shown her compared unfavourably with this painting . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By the time we had dressed the first grey light of the day had appeared at the window . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 26 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 27 | A woman had enquired at the factory about the possibility of making an aluminium gang-plank for her private barge . |
| 28 | On July 13 the Spanish government had protested at the violation of diplomatic immunity after gun-firing police had apprehended an asylum seeker in embassy grounds . |
| 29 | Announced to the Federal Assembly on Dec. 28 by Federal Premier Ante Markovic , this was the first devaluation since his government had introduced at the beginning of 1990 a convertible dinar pegged to the deutschmark [ see p. 37194 ] . |
| 30 | Even before the pathologist had finished at the scene and the head was wrapped , the hands mittened in their plastic bags , even before Doc Kynaston got to work with his scalpels , the corpse would be an exhibit , more important , more cumbersome and more difficult to preserve than other exhibits in the case , but still an exhibit , tagged , documented , dehumanized , invoking only interest , curiosity or disgust . |