Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the evening of Saturday 30 January , a fire had broken out in a process area on the mezzanine floor of the building . |
| 2 | Soon after , all the rabbits had come together in a kind of hollow . |
| 3 | The words had come out in a babble and by the time he had gathered his wits and been able to respond she had put the phone down . |
| 4 | The previous year to my visit a sizeable chunk had cracked off in a storm . |
| 5 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 6 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 7 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |
| 8 | Lacey 's report found that the Justice Department had conducted a " virtually perfect " inquiry into the affair and had done so in a manner which was free from political influence . |
| 9 | He had grown up in a quasi-syndicalist tradition in the Liverpool docks , and his influence in the sixties had been thrown behind the growth of the shop-stewards movement and local plant bargaining on a devolved basis very much on the lines of the 1968 Donovan Report . |
| 10 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 11 | In case you thought that the Mark 2 Project had died quietly in a corner somewhere ( given the lack of information on it recently ) it is in fact still very much alive and is making slow but steady progress . |
| 12 | I thought to myself that I had landed up in a place without an inch of ground to call my own . |
| 13 | It was n't the first time her pupil had mentioned Rossmayne and each time the girl 's face had lit up in a way which made the nun catch her breath . |
| 14 | The youngest was a Spanish cabinboy who had run away a few years before from his vicious captain , the oldest a maroon from Benin who had fled a plantation on an island to the north : he had stowed away in a pirate ship that had stopped to draw water on Oualie . |
| 15 | The envelope had fluttered suddenly in a rush of wind . |
| 16 | Astrid was married , kids and mortgage , but the summer had rocketed by in a riot of colours and joy , and autumn found Astrid divorced and coming to the end of being in love with Jay . |
| 17 | For years he had plodded on in a series of jobs on building sites — and at one stage he even played football as a semi-professional in Ireland . |
| 18 | Drew had walked out in a temper . |
| 19 | Chatichai 's coalition , then comprising six member parties , controlled 229 seats in the 347-member House of Representatives , and survived the vote with the apparently overwhelming majority of 220 to 38 , but only after most opposition members had walked out in a mark of protest . |
| 20 | She 'd nothing to worry about , especially since that old bitch Mrs Gerard had walked off in a huff . |
| 21 | On this particular Monday morning , Adrian had the feeling that he had woken up in a colour supplement . |
| 22 | The day had streaked by in a blur of concentration and counting . |
| 23 | But J. S. Middleton , the Labour Party General Secretary , had set out in a series of published letters to Harry Pollitt , the Communist secretary , the arguments against allowing Communist affiliation : they were largely based upon the fact that the Communists adhered to the Communist International , based in Moscow , and were bound to obey its orders . |
| 24 | In Vienna quite a few of them had gone around in a crowd together , boys and girls . |
| 25 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 26 | It had gone off in a hotel in Leinster Place and would always in future be known as the ‘ Bayswater Bomb ’ . |
| 27 | We had worked together in a couple of other wards . |
| 28 | At the age of 75 , Olivier visited Richard to see a play he was directing and attended a midnight student production he had put on in a Hollywood garage with other students . |
| 29 | Instead , he had put up in a hotel some miles out of town , high up on the Downs , which owed more to Laura Ashley than to Nancy Astor . |
| 30 | Maggie clipped his ear , making him yell , but undeterred he began to torment the two younger boys who had crouched quietly in a corner , watching . |