Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course it 's Silas , ’ Bertha had exclaimed irritably within five minutes of Lucy 's arrival at the large house nestling among trees and gardens in the most expensive area of Hastings . |
| 2 | By ten past nine the entrance and drive-way of the Grand Hotel had filled up with eager Tories , wearing their photo-passes with all the pride of the Old Contemptibles , conference agendas to hand . |
| 3 | Caro 's widowed mother had remarried only in recent years and her new husband already had four children , all grown up and living away from home . |
| 4 | Entering the small church at Chivay at the head of the Colca Canyon , children had jumped out of two alcoves and run off laughing . |
| 5 | Maybe he had zoomed off into another body . |
| 6 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 7 | Within large corporations control had ebbed away from entrepreneurial owners of capital to business managers who administered the companies on behalf of largely inactive shareholders . |
| 8 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 9 | From 1877 trunk lines were begun on both North and South Islands to cement the short , separate , coast-to-interior railways which had developed up to that date . |
| 10 | The Cold War had developed out of mutual suspicions , particularly over the German problem ( CORE , pp. 81–7 ) , and also out of misunderstandings . |
| 11 | Although some of them were just small farms which had developed out of native settlements , others were country houses at the centres of large estates . |
| 12 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 13 | Tim and Chuck , who had flown ahead by Merpati Airlines , checked-out the aircraft and did some re-taping to protect the fabric — a constant battle . |
| 14 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 15 | The sea had broken through in several places , and many homes are at risk from flooding . |
| 16 | By Feb. 9 sympathy strikes had broken out at higher education establishments in several cities . |
| 17 | Heavy fighting had broken out in late March when guerrillas of the Karen National Union ( KNU ) , supported by student dissidents , attempted to wrest control of the town from government forces . |
| 18 | Addressing the court before sentencing , and speaking in that confiding style whose quality of extreme directness made ordinary statements seem extraordinary , Gandhi took upon himself complete responsibility for ‘ the diabolical crimes of Chauri Chaura ’ and other disturbances which had broken out in recent weeks . |
| 19 | An earlier ceasefire arranged on Nov. 11 had broken down after five days . |
| 20 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 21 | Paul Wells had eased off by this point and was actually beaten by his brother who won the domestic event . |
| 22 | Now all their colleagues craved stardom too , and almost overnight the once faceless bureaucrats had blossomed out in trendy clothes and bushy beards , and an anonymous letter was enough to get them as excited as any schoolboy . |
| 23 | In varying degrees these had rich Jacobean and baroque interiors in contrast to the simple interiors in contrast to the simple interiors of the 1820s and 1830s which had depended largely on rich marble Louis chimney-pieces and high quality papers . |
| 24 | In this way there was in human history a cumulative build up of knowledge and success in adaptation to the environment which made human beings very quick to adapt to new problems — much more easily and quickly than if they had depended only on genetic transmission . |
| 25 | The educational system had failed him — an education system that had relied largely upon on-the-job training and part-time or distance study was inadequate and had ineptly squandered the intellect of its candidates . |
| 26 | Now 45 people had joined together for 2 hours of fun . |
| 27 | Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland . |
| 28 | The previous year her chief secretary had travelled home on black ice and thick snow . |
| 29 | This had been the cause of the 1925 dispute , and the situation had altered little between 31 July 1925 , ‘ Red Friday ’ and 1 May 1926 when the coal lock-out began . |
| 30 | It was Germany which had pressed hardest for more powers to be granted to the European Parliament at the expense of the national parliaments as the price for monetary union on German terms . |