Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 2 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 3 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 4 | Citrine insisted that the departmental chief officers met with his full-time colleagues on the Authority weekly , encouraging the officers to comment on general policy matters rather than confining their comments to their own specialisms : a method he had found worked well at the TUC . |
| 5 | However , he had continued to look regularly at the newspapers for other vacancies . |
| 6 | The Council of the Zoological Society of London had planned to shut down at the end of September . |
| 7 | He believed , and she had once heard him say , that eventually she would , naturally , come round to his way of thinking , and she had vowed to work harder at the study of English literature in order to learn enough words to refute him once and for all . |