Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some pages had apparently been torn out and separately burnt ; the brittle fragments of black ash had floated down to lie on top of the debris under the grate , old twisted matchends , coal dust , carpet fluff , the accumulated grit of years . |
| 2 | She had dropped off to sleep in spite of herself , and now it was a black night with a wind getting up that was making the beech trees creak and rattling a shutter on one of the upper windows . |
| 3 | The cat had done well to run for shelter … |
| 4 | The Doctor remembered why , long ago , he had decided not to go into politics . |
| 5 | We had agreed not to talk about fitting-out problems and we lay in the sun drinking from the bottle Iain had humped up in his backpack . |
| 6 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 7 | Among the young couples moving into the area were those who had dropped out of church life when they had left home to go to university , or when they got married . |
| 8 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |