Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had gazed petulantly at a mantelpiece empty of deckle-edged cards , remembering the time when she had never wanted for an escort or a party . |
| 2 | James 's victory gave him 35 points to Lauda 's 61 , his car was clearly among the best , he had matured greatly as a driver , he was on a good roll himself : the championship seemed to be there for his taking . |
| 3 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 4 | A series of articles in the ( CCP ) People 's Daily in November noted that the CCP 's popularity had ebbed mainly as a result of corruption among party members . |
| 5 | On my previous visit , at dawn , the range had floated eerily above a sea of fog . |
| 6 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 7 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 8 | Money flowing into the territories from the Gulf nations and from remittances had fallen dramatically as a result of the war . |
| 9 | The American boy stared at his empty glass , which he had drained nervously at a gulp , and looked uncertainly towards the figure of his mother fast disappearing among the crowd . |
| 10 | He had leaned heavily on a stick . |
| 11 | Yes he had booked there for a week , I think it was for a business meeting with Mr Sandy , that 's all I know . |
| 12 | She remembered Donna Fratelli 's raucous laugh , the number of times the two of them had sat together over a glass of wine or a plate of pasta , discussing the things which really matter : men , or life , or the latest movie . |
| 13 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 14 | He had looked forward to a day in the sun , the simple admiration of colleagues , young scientists . |
| 15 | Except that even with costume and make-up the star had looked less like a pirate than Nathan Bryce did at this moment . |
| 16 | They forgot about Tavett and moved on to discuss Pascoe and how , when they came to think of it , he had looked very like a man waiting for a major heart attack . |
| 17 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 18 | While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 's anthology . |
| 19 | He had come here on a misunderstanding ; believing that Wavebreaker had been at Murder Cay when in fact we had not even been within sight of that mysterious island . |
| 20 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 21 | Soon after , all the rabbits had come together in a kind of hollow . |
| 22 | If the body had come there as a result of a crime that took place on the river , then the River Police with their specialised knowledge of tides and shipping were the obvious people to investigate it . |
| 23 | Stealing had come more as a necessity than anything else . |
| 24 | Earlier in the day he had searched anxiously for a tape of Whitney Houston doing ‘ The Greatest Love of All ’ , a song written especially for Ali years ago . |
| 25 | This was all fantasy , of course , for one or two people had come , Evans or Owens from Hadleigh , the coypu man , a meter reader , the man who wanted to do the garden and whom he had turned away with a lie . |
| 26 | It was an enraging affectation , worthy of an Oxford undergraduate , especially as Charlie might do it in the middle of a conversation , as he had done recently at a college gig : the Union President was talking to him when Charlie 's hands reached into his side pocket , the book was extracted and opened , and the man 's eyes popped in disbelief as Charlie imbibed a beakerful of the warm South . |
| 27 | Lord Justice Watkins said the Divisional Court could review an order of the magistrates ' court made for the purpose of preventing an abuse of its process and had done so on a number of occasions . |
| 28 | Lacey 's report found that the Justice Department had conducted a " virtually perfect " inquiry into the affair and had done so in a manner which was free from political influence . |
| 29 | They had done so after a period of co-operation and consultation with East Germany which looks in retrospect like a laying of the groundwork for what was to come in both Germanys . |
| 30 | Michael Swinton watched her in silence as he had watched her before , only proffering as he had done once before a handkerchief which he had plainly also used as a paint rag . |