Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 2 | She had gazed petulantly at a mantelpiece empty of deckle-edged cards , remembering the time when she had never wanted for an escort or a party . |
| 3 | James 's victory gave him 35 points to Lauda 's 61 , his car was clearly among the best , he had matured greatly as a driver , he was on a good roll himself : the championship seemed to be there for his taking . |
| 4 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 5 | A series of articles in the ( CCP ) People 's Daily in November noted that the CCP 's popularity had ebbed mainly as a result of corruption among party members . |
| 6 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 7 | On my previous visit , at dawn , the range had floated eerily above a sea of fog . |
| 8 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |
| 9 | Clashes between riot police and demonstrators had broken out during a student demonstration outside the Education Ministry on Oct. 24 . |
| 10 | On the evening of Saturday 30 January , a fire had broken out in a process area on the mezzanine floor of the building . |
| 11 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 12 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 13 | The club , by now had spilled out into a sort of annexe conservatory at the back of the room and by the time the summer arrived , people were spilling out into the garden and , in fact , used to come into the club by this route illegally . |
| 14 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 15 | Money flowing into the territories from the Gulf nations and from remittances had fallen dramatically as a result of the war . |
| 16 | Boyfriend Garry Curtis , of Bedhampton , Hants , dragged her to safety — and rescuers arrived to find the couple , who had fallen out at a party , kissing and hugging . |
| 17 | So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg . |
| 18 | The American boy stared at his empty glass , which he had drained nervously at a gulp , and looked uncertainly towards the figure of his mother fast disappearing among the crowd . |
| 19 | He had leaned heavily on a stick . |
| 20 | Yes he had booked there for a week , I think it was for a business meeting with Mr Sandy , that 's all I know . |
| 21 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 22 | ’ Like Muir , Eliot had won through to a vision of final acceptance , which allowed him to look back even to Sweeney and to call him , at Columbia in 1958 , ‘ friend ’ . |
| 23 | Sara carefully separated her gloves which she had rolled up into a ball . |
| 24 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 25 | He stooped to retrieve an ear-ring which had dropped out of a blouse he was holding . |
| 26 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 27 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 28 | She remembered Donna Fratelli 's raucous laugh , the number of times the two of them had sat together over a glass of wine or a plate of pasta , discussing the things which really matter : men , or life , or the latest movie . |
| 29 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 30 | He had looked forward to a day in the sun , the simple admiration of colleagues , young scientists . |