Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 2 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 3 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 4 | In short the movies had broken through to the masses and had the power to pull in almost anybody and everybody who helped constitute the masses . |
| 5 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 6 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Robertson had caught up with the words and passed the manuscript , still wet , to the laird . |
| 9 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 10 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 11 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 12 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 13 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 14 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 15 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 16 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 17 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 18 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
| 19 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 20 | After more anxious discussion , the woman who had come down with the leaves , bony and greyish of skin with her hair wrapped in a yellow turban , poured half , then all the small bottle of gin into the steaming mixture and ceremoniously put it in the centre of the floor . |
| 21 | Because then Jesus said to him , who was he talking to , let's , let's start off on the verse one after er after he had come down from the mountains , great crowds followed him that 's Jesus is n't it ? |
| 22 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 23 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 24 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |
| 25 | These men had come out of the tubes of a submarine , probably a Delta class . |
| 26 | By then other intellectuals had come out against the radicals . |
| 27 | The lid had collapsed on to the remains , the sides had fallen outwards , but the two end pieces remained upright . |
| 28 | There was plenty of broken glass and several glasses left on the window sills and the pavement , and of course , little piles of fag ends that barren , saving themselves journeys to the dustbins , had tipped out of the doors after everyone had gone . |
| 29 | The Morning Advertiser of 24 September reported on an in-depth survey that it had carried out into the effects of the guest beer provision . |
| 30 | By five-thirty , I had met up with the lads and , content at seventeen miles , stooped in the twilight to hammer home the twenty-eight pegs . |