Example sentences of "had opened [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men crying with loud and bitter cries , till the anguish of their souls had opened every pore of the body , and produced a perspiration which fell from their face to the ground . |
| 2 | Ada was helping her father , the local postman , and had to run the house for her old mother ; Nives had opened a hairdresser 's shop ; and Nora was already apprenticed to a tailor , |
| 3 | Pérez promised , however , to promote closer co-operation with the DEA which had opened a branch office in the western city of Maracaibo , but maintained a smaller presence there than in neighbouring countries . |
| 4 | Canada had opened a consulate in Kiev on Sept. 9 . |
| 5 | Leese case had opened a Pandora 's box of possibilities for the racial nationalists . |
| 6 | Someone , somewhere had opened a door into Hades — and they were hearing the torment of the damned . |
| 7 | Well , you could have felt the atmosphere in the room relax as if someone had opened a window , letting in the cool summer breeze . |
| 8 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 9 | George and Elaine had opened a bottle of wine . |
| 10 | He had opened a bottle of wine , and Alyssia sipped cautiously from the glass , not wanting to lose control again because she was tipsy . |
| 11 | Since Michael had opened a hostess club in the West End , he had literally had his pick of women to spend the night with . |
| 12 | The rain came suddenly and a hot wind , as if someone had opened a furnace door , hurled it against the car . |
| 13 | Her husband had opened a bookshop to support her and their two children , but it was " imperative for her to work " at her old job as reader , " to tide them over for a year or two " . |
| 14 | She had opened a tin of beans , was flopping them into a saucepan at the stove . |
| 15 | I felt the blood draining from my face like somebody had opened a valve in my ankle . |
| 16 | On the landward side , they had opened a shutter a little and she could see inside . |
| 17 | ( Oman had opened a stock exchange in May 1989 — see p. 37431 . ) |
| 18 | Since the termination of the defendants ' employment a company in the same group as the plaintiffs had opened a number of Bureaux de Change in Paris . |
| 19 | We trooped out and back into the changing-room where ‘ Private ’ Boyd had opened a fire door on to what ‘ Sergeant ’ Waters had called the Paddock . |
| 20 | The company had opened a record fifteen shops in 1978 bringing its total to over seventy outlets worldwide . |
| 21 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 22 | The airline had opened the route on the basis that it would be the first of many , but the British Government had failed to grant any more licenses . |
| 23 | The SWWA had opened the hydrants at night to try and clear out the system before the town woke up . |
| 24 | When he had opened the case as Lou Collins presented it to him before dawn , he had not seen any direction-finding device , but did not expect to . |
| 25 | Bradford had opened the scoring through Graham Mackay , taking advantage of Morvin Edwards ' defensive naivety , but conceded a try and the lead shortly afterwards by losing the ball in their own half and enabling Dean Clark to present Tony Kemp with a simple opportunity . |
| 26 | DURHAM WASPS ' dream of becoming the first British League team to win a European game abroad ended in a 10-1 defeat here last night after Robert Herckerrath had opened the scoring for Gunco Pandas of Rotterdam in the second minute . |
| 27 | Ehlen also claiming one at this time , while Fw.Kestel had opened the scoring with one at 1305 . |
| 28 | Victory was assured by the half-hour after skipper Colin Cooper had opened the scoring from close range on 13 minutes . |
| 29 | Peter Brooke ( who had opened the London office ) became Chairman and Jean Michel Beigbeder ( then manager of the Paris office ) became Chief Executive . |
| 30 | Some thirty years later , after Vasco da Gama had opened the sea route to India , a Portuguese mission under Rodrigo de Lima arrived at Massawa and travelled inland to the court of Lebna Dengel , the Negusa Nagast , King of Kings , or Emperor . |