Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 2 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 3 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 4 | If a piece of metal had flown out of the machine and blinded Brian , the court could hold that the purpose of the statute was to keep the employee out , not the machine in . |
| 5 | Everyone was hungry , but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away . |
| 6 | Attlee 's Labour Party had broken out of the ghetto of solidly working-class support , its 1945 victory being based on the electoral sympathy of a broad section of the middle class . |
| 7 | It was not until she noticed a bill on Todney 's desk , to be authorized by Stephen as complimentary , that she knew his half-brother had checked out of the hotel without so much as saying goodbye to her . |
| 8 | A day later , though , he called Susan to say he had checked out of the hospital . |
| 9 | Passengers ' baggage had spilled out of the hold and burst suitcases , charred books , swimming costumes and tubes of sun tan cream were scattered on the ground . |
| 10 | Small pieces of electronic equipment had spilled out of the snake . |
| 11 | The rings had spilled out of the tin and lay in the tufty bits of grass like slugs trying to eat their own tails . |
| 12 | He signed the deal in July 1989 — and by September the bottom had fallen out of the London commercial property market . |
| 13 | The bottom had fallen out of the city 's property market and skyscrapers offered for sale at ridiculously low prices could find no buyers . |
| 14 | He had sailed to Ninfania from Illyria , in a big double bass of a galleon , with a prow carved like a volute , and it brought him to the shore in the harbour he then designated Ribaris , after the peak where the Ark had come to rest , once all the waters of the flood had drained out of the plughole of divine fury . |
| 15 | Suddenly spotting the rear view of the vehicle , he had leaned out of the window , and was using his R/T to contact his base . |
| 16 | Sarah , who had leaned out of the window to see the house , sat down again , smiling and blinking at the water drawn into her eyes by the cold and the wind . |
| 17 | The move is an about-face for Rabobank , which recently announced that it had dropped out of the race for the licence . |
| 18 | Bertie Ahern , who had dropped out of the leadership contest to assure Reynolds of victory , remained Finance Minister . |
| 19 | Both residential preferences and government policy had dropped out of the picture . |
| 20 | I myself had let out of the sink , |
| 21 | She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day . |
| 22 | The policeman , who had materialised out of the hedgerow when she approached the churchyard , had had her name written in his notebook . |
| 23 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 24 | The girl that was Angela Morgan had looked out of the photograph , whereas what lay on the ground , arms outstretched , could have been any young woman with dark hair . |
| 25 | ‘ If Mrs Thatcher had resigned out of the blue , then I think more people would be able to remember what they were doing , ’ says Dr Wright . |
| 26 | Although she had rejected his dinner invitation , somehow he had come out of the scene the victor . |
| 27 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 28 | The same thing with pre-West End shows — quite often , I mean for instance , there was a show at the Apollo about six months ago which was Lettuce and Lovage , er which had come out of the West End and was doing a big tour . |
| 29 | ‘ Lovat was enquiring about you earlier on , Piper , ’ shouted one of the medics who had come out of the barn to tend to the wounded . |
| 30 | Lee and his stepdad had come out of the shed . |