Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 2 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 3 | In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire . |
| 4 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 5 | In the heat of a sultry evening , Britain had the fitness and the heart to outlast the clever Koreans and it was Sixsmith who got the winner , poaching in the area after the ball had pinballed around from a short corner . |
| 6 | The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale . |
| 7 | It was making her heartbeat erratic , and her whole body had broken out in a fine dew of perspiration . |
| 8 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 9 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 10 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 11 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 12 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 13 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
| 14 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |
| 15 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 16 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 17 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 18 | The production team , which again included writers Robert Lord and Abem Finkel , had made a film which depoliticized the Legion by making its motive force sheer racketeering rather than political control and by making the violence and executions personal rather than political but nevertheless they had come up with a realistic depiction of how a weak man could be drawn into a recognizably Fascist organization . |
| 19 | Much of this had come about as a direct result of the introduction of the GCSE , as these comments from the Head of Art at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ reveal : |
| 20 | The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote . |
| 21 | Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them . |
| 22 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 23 | The staff were also worried about his speech , not seeming to take into account the fact that this was the first time he had come out of a Punjabi-speaking environment and was having to cope with new experiences in a foreign language . |
| 24 | The words had come out with a distinct tang of broad Lancashire , but she immediately withdrew into her pseudo-Southern gentility . |
| 25 | The waitress from The Crossed Keys , unsuspecting , had come out with a fresh supply of punch . |
| 26 | We had come out on a broad dirt road . |
| 27 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 28 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |
| 29 | ‘ There 'll be a bit off for luck ? ’ he asked , proving that he still retained some of the guile he had picked up as a practising country lawyer . |
| 30 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |