Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , another tall reputation had looked fully justified at the start of the afternoon when Nashwan 's half-brother Mukddaam , survived a stewards ' inquiry after beating 18 rivals convincingly on his racecourse debut to become favourite for the Derby at 16-1 with William Hill . |
| 2 | The actual time of the start is difficult to arrive at , and is not important , but whatever the historical facts may be , it can be taken as fairly certain that the misuse of religion had become well established at the time of the advent of Jesus Christ . |
| 3 | A new Governor , David Taylor , was sworn in on May 22 , 1990 , succeeding Christopher Turner , whose relations with the Chief Minister , John Osborne , had become extremely strained at the end of 1989 . |
| 4 | A physicist and former Director of the Atomic Energy Authority 's Harwell laboratories , Marshall had become personally identified at the vanguard of the British nuclear power programme ; in one Monty Pythonesque anti-nuclear cartoon , his balding head replaced the reactor dome of a PWR . |
| 5 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 6 | By the time we rolled into Lima it was dark and , though we had taken hourly turns at the wheel , we were all of us limp with exhaustion . |