Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone but Nathan had gathered in the canteen that morning and Roirbak , when he joined them , was aware of a certain tension indicating no one dared think the worst was over . |
| 2 | He cited benefits that Scotland had received from the Budget such as the decision not to raise the duty on whisky and the North Sea measures . |
| 3 | Kathleen had several times suppressed the thought that if they had telephoned to the doctor half a day earlier , Faith might . |
| 4 | He had bought a copy of The Times before he had come to The Randolph that morning , but hitherto had not even glanced at the headlines . |
| 5 | He had come into the centre that morning complaining of indigestion . |
| 6 | She had been so worried about the mistress , and it was n't just because of the way she had torn into the work this morning , nor because of the bairn growing heavy inside her and making life uncomfortable . |
| 7 | The kidnapping of his friend 's son , the policy of intermittent , small-scale attacks , together with the persistent driving winds ( no hurricane had hit , but nevertheless the autumn gales had torn at the trees all night and blown his nerves to bits ) , and the impending birth of his child by the savage girl who 'd taken possession of him — all this harried Kit Everard in his sleep until more than once , he was ready to move on , find another island , preferably entirely uninhabited . |
| 8 | As he had stressed in The Rock this was not in the sense of information , but rather in the sense of consciousness of values ; and he deplored a situation where the term society implied simply a group of ‘ well connected ’ and affluent people , which had almost no relation to that other group or society which maintained moral and intellectual standards , which for him was the church . |
| 9 | The room was a little dusky , it smelt of flowers which Franca had picked in the garden that morning . |
| 10 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 11 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 12 | So Elizabeth told her everything that had happened today and after half an hour they decided to tell everyone what the they had done at the disco that night . |
| 13 | The man looked nothing like Stock , the bike was quite different from the big black BMW Stock rode , and anyway omens were nonsense , Stock 's time was over ; he could tell that from what Sara had said over the phone that morning . |
| 14 | Adding these to the other elements of the claim and demands for extra London weighting , Mr Clarke had said in the Commons that ambulance workers were looking for ‘ rather a lot more money ’ . |
| 15 | Taff was chatting to the 3 mortar team that had moved into the orchard that afternoon . |
| 16 | A tall young woman , with hair that looked thick and wild and was streaked blonde as though she had cavorted under the sun all the days of her life . |
| 17 | We woke abnormally late at 8.00 am and sat in the garden of the house for an hour drinking coffee and eating the bread one of the Corporals had bought in the village that morning . |
| 18 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 19 | Being unable to swim and with no one around to rescue him , Daniel had drowned in the canal that evening . |
| 20 | ‘ Tong Chou , ’ he said , using the pseudonym he had used in the Plantation that time ; knowing that if they checked the records they would find an entry there under that name and a face to match his face . |
| 21 | For the players , there was the prospect of returning to their day jobs with £50 in their pockets , for the landlord there was a healthy night 's takings and for the crowd , even those who had stayed in the bar all evening , there was a nasty ringing in the ears the next morning . |
| 22 | A little parcel had arrived through the post that morning from the old people 's home at Tower Hamlets . |
| 23 | The film started with this character telling the audience how long the Führer had spent in the bunker that last time , just over one hundred days . |
| 24 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 25 | The images of the bodies wrapped around each other in mud had stuck with the shapechanger all his life . |
| 26 | Cottages dotted the waterside through the village ; and anything which had gone into the water some hours ago must , in any case , either have been brought ashore there already or long since have passed through , before the general alarm went out . |
| 27 | We went on listening as she informed us that she had progressed from the easy-peasies such as Keats and Dickens to the Russian heavy brigade . |
| 28 | At Wickham 's prompting he painstakingly recalled everything that had happened in the pub that evening up to the time he missed the knife , and recited a list of names of customers who had been there . |
| 29 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 30 | Of all the most damned of coincidences ! she 'd thought , when Ari had told her what had happened in the canteen that first day at the Park . |