Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift . |
| 2 | This one , he said , pointing to Bobby , he had had to pick up in the street . |
| 3 | When the projectile that had escaped turned up in the mud all was explained : it was a 4.5mm , low-power ammunition for a small pistol . |
| 4 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 5 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | It must also be admitted that the fact that some of the companies insuring our policy had ceased to pay out in the wake of the LUI failure , also helped our resistance . |
| 7 | They had to get back to their dormitories before anyone awoke , but turning round , Endill saw lights had started coming on in the school . |
| 8 | We come therefore to synthesise the ideas I had tried to put over in the preceding chapters . |
| 9 | As a boy , he had liked to scrape around in the fields ; he had eavesdropped when the whereabouts of discoveries were discussed , and walked with the farmers when they ploughed an old olive grove to turn it over to fruit trees . |
| 10 | Apanage cried , and the music reached a deafening crescendo , which made Cleo realise just why these people had elected to live out in the middle of nowhere . |