Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two armed men had jumped from a car as the money was being carried towards the bank . |
| 2 | It was windy and the cedar , which he had likened to a galleon and Zosie to a witch , danced witch-like , its branches arms and leaping legs and flying skirts . |
| 3 | The move was sharply criticized by environmental experts , who said it would set back research and also meant that NP had reneged on a pledge that work on environmental problems would not suffer under privatization . |
| 4 | However , it is important to note that over half the applicants in our survey had enrolled for a course though not the one we were tracking . |
| 5 | As quick as a flash , Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl 's head and shoulders , yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides . |
| 6 | Cromwell 's men were searching a Cavalier household ; the man had hidden in a window-seat and on top of it his wife had placed their sleeping child . |
| 7 | He had flown into a rage when he found his car , left in a private car park in Hounslow , west London , was clamped , the Old Bailey heard yesterday . |
| 8 | It was probably just a big old rock , which had broken off a moon or a planet . |
| 9 | A defence solicitor said McHugh bought the drugs with compensation he had received following an accident and intended to supply the drugs to friends at the Donegal rave . |
| 10 | Lori seemed to shudder right through to her very bones ; then it was as if she had shaken off a darkness that had possessed her for too long . |
| 11 | We had spent an hour or two in the hraun and had stopped for a rest when a huge white-tailed eagle came flying past . |
| 12 | Mr Fitzpatrick and his son had checked into a hotel and had planned to stay for several days while Liam did some business . |
| 13 | I saw the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and the concessions that we had won as a lever or a rolling stone which would have a knock-on effect . |
| 14 | Her body had stiffened for a moment but she made herself relax and huddle against him . |
| 15 | She had come on an errand and was greeted by a mad woman , an amazon . |
| 16 | It was n't until they had come to a halt that she had felt able to raise her eyes from the floor and look at the two men standing by the alter rail . |
| 17 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |
| 18 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 19 | The BMW had come to a stop and the boy was climbing out , his Molotov cocktail now lit and ready . |
| 20 | It appeared that the rapid growth associated with the British industrial revolution had come to an end and that the theory of demographic transition , which predicted a phase when death rates and birth rates fell to low levels , was correct . |
| 21 | Nine months of intense building activity had come to an end and the boat was now ready for trials . |
| 22 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |
| 23 | An even clearer result was that , of those who had entered into unemployment because a temporary job had come to an end and who found a new job within 10 months , nearly twice as many ( 44 per cent ) took temporary jobs as did the generality of those finding work ( 25 per cent ) [ see Table 4.6 ] . |
| 24 | The famous Durance coterie had come to an end and all that was left was Sabine painting in the hills and another old woman living in a neglected villa in Antibes . ’ |
| 25 | In fact the amount of oceanic crust involved in the rocks Of the Caledonides suggests that a short-lived proto-Atlantic had come to an end and the two continental shelves had met . |
| 26 | By far the most popular months for marriage were October and November , when harvest was safely gathered in and the annual period of service for farm servants in the corn-growing regions had come to an end and wages had been paid . |
| 27 | Murphy 's final year had come to an end and the loathsome boy remained without employment . |
| 28 | One party had come as a dragon and were doing a conga through the dancing couples , tail disintegrating even as the giant head bobbed up and down . |
| 29 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 30 | His strong , even teeth glinted white against the bronze of his skin , and with a peculiar detachment Shannon found herself wondering if the tan had come from a sun-bed or even a bottle . |