Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he had zoomed off into another body . |
| 2 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 3 | From 1877 trunk lines were begun on both North and South Islands to cement the short , separate , coast-to-interior railways which had developed up to that date . |
| 4 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 5 | Paul Wells had eased off by this point and was actually beaten by his brother who won the domestic event . |
| 6 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 7 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 8 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
| 9 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 10 | One SAE applauded an AE who had come out with this line about futures : " This stuff is granny bonds , it 's so simple . " |
| 11 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 12 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 13 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 14 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 15 | You do n't have to read the book , it 's rubbish , but I mean you can just say , if you remember the title , The Imperial Presidency , here was a view that the presidency had become dominant , the presidency had grown out of all proportion to the intentions of the founding fathers and needed to be reined back . |
| 16 | The controversy over affiliation had grown out of all proportion , driving the party into an isolation which neither its leaders nor its members really desired . |
| 17 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 18 | For it was a mistake by the giant Eachus which transformed the game , gave Glenavon the breakthrough they needed and an upsurge in confidence to sweep to a victory they had wrapped up by half time . |
| 19 | He explained that the people who had got on to that ferry would get off in another world , and would never be seen in this one again . |
| 20 | Since they had got in with this crowd , she had not felt very happy . |
| 21 | Apart from that , it also shows how wide a gulf had opened up between this sort of natural religion and classical Christianity . |
| 22 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 23 | It was possibly the first time the BBC had had to take other equipment out of service because someone ( Voigt ) complained of its bad performance , which had shown up on this speaker . |
| 24 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 25 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 26 | The very mention of his name caused her to tremble , and in his company she had the curious sensation that her feet and her nose had enlarged out of all proportion . |
| 27 | Since the death of the writer the insults and threats he had dealt out to each member of his family took on a new significance . |
| 28 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 29 | General bewilderment had set in by this year 's quarter-final stage , by which point most of the big names — Toulouse , Racing , Agen , Narbonne and Béziers — had fallen by the wayside . |
| 30 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |