Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 2 | Somehow my pursuer had guessed correctly at every turn . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 5 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |
| 6 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
| 7 | It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 10 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 11 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 12 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property . |
| 16 | But before this , Wyatt had dined privately at the Palace with Fergie and the Iraqi oil minister . |
| 17 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 18 | One of Andrew Buccleuth 's analysts had looked carefully at the company since one of my big customers , a pension fund with vast resources to spend , had bought heavily into the company and so had several of my private clients . |
| 19 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 20 | Dalziel had looked pityingly at the sergeant . |
| 21 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 22 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 23 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 24 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 25 | At the end of the third quarter , provider units remained on course to achieve a financial balance this year , as we had reported earlier at the end of the second quarter . |
| 26 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 27 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 28 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 29 | A new girl whom I had met previously at the school exchange joined my class and because the girl who had been my original friend still wanted my friendship in particular , jealousy began as both people wanted me ( oh , oh , so popular , eh ? ! ! ) |
| 30 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |