Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |
| 2 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
| 3 | It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end . |
| 4 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 5 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 6 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 7 | There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property . |
| 8 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 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 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 11 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 12 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 13 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
| 14 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
| 15 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
| 16 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
| 17 | David Arthur , 18 , of Blackstoun Avenue , Linwood , Renfrewshire , claimed during a trial that he had lashed out at the victim , Greig Mooney , 18 , with a broken umbrella he had found discarded in the street . |
| 18 | But there was qualifying joy for other athletes who had missed out at the county championships , including Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier Stephen Helm . |
| 19 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 20 | It would be a chance to see her on neutral ground , maybe even a chance to explain that it was n't his bloody fault that Laura had shown up at the door only seconds before she herself had . |
| 21 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 22 | I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend . |
| 23 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
| 24 | I had arrived up at the office one morning to relieve Freda from night duty , and found her sitting up there looking pleased with herself and Jim looking solemn . |
| 25 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 26 | By the time he had arrived back at the Hotel Colombi he had decided . |
| 27 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 28 | But he had swung round at the sound of a vehicle approaching . |
| 29 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 30 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |