Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The riders , about a dozen so far , had gathered together in the middle . |
| 2 | Mr Wood noted that the taste for English watercolours had developed considerably in the US over the last ten years through the support of the Paul Mellon Foundation as well as the efforts of dealers like himself . |
| 3 | Meanwhile there were also reports on March 12 that unrest had broken out in the Shia districts of Baghdad ( Saddam City and Shuala ) and that curfews had been imposed . |
| 4 | The Tokyo stock exchange fell to its lowest level in 3½ years on Sept. 28 on unfounded rumours that war had broken out in the Gulf . |
| 5 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 6 | He had swivelled round in the armchair and was staring at me irritably . |
| 7 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
| 8 | A long list of criteria was trundled out to justify the eminent reasonableness of their wage claims : their members had fallen behind in the league table of wage differentials ; the cost of living had increased ; productivity had risen ; firms ' profits were high and their members were entitled to their ‘ fair ’ share . |
| 9 | Political leaders from across the assembly had resolved earlier in the week that an apparent lacuna in the rulebook which gave the neo-fascists the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship of the delegations should be filled so that the pair could be voted out of their posts . |
| 10 | However , Advani chose to take up another seat , which he had won simultaneously in the state of Gujarat . |
| 11 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 12 | The collar-points of his white shirt had rolled up in the heat . |
| 13 | Are you wishing it was I had rolled under in the waves , not your father 's grandson , because he was hurt while saving your life ? |
| 14 | He ruled out further help for the legalized opposition parties , saying that they needed time to win supporters , and that was why they had fared badly in the April elections . |
| 15 | All her hair had dropped out in the night and she was choking on it . ’ |
| 16 | That 's £21.46 more than it would have cost you , if you had dined out in the UK . |
| 17 | Denis had sat downstairs in the sitting-room while it was going on , praying fervently to the Child of Prague , or was it to Uncle Mick , to protect his little European wife from all her pain and bring her safely through . |
| 18 | It had been quite crowded , but she had sat quietly in the corner with a drink . |
| 19 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 20 | After Tammuz and Roirbak had left Acropolis Park for their meeting with Jahsaxa Penumbra , Ari and Leila had sat together in the canteen . |
| 21 | That evening , before dinner , we had sat together in the Clerecia , watching the glib little gilded pendulum of the antique wall-clock wagging away . |
| 22 | They had looked together in the sheds , behind the dustbins . |
| 23 | President Frederick Chiluba faced a growing crisis when two Cabinet ministers who had resigned earlier in the month took part in launching on July 25 of a new party , the Caucus for National Unity ( CNU ) . |
| 24 | The first prisoners had come here in the days when the state of war between England and Germany was still largely theoretical . |
| 25 | He had come here in the autumn of 1920 . |
| 26 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 27 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 28 | The previous year , BASF , Bayer , Hoechst , Agfa and a number of smaller German companies had come together in the Interes-sengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie ( IG Farben ) . |
| 29 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 30 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |