Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just too late to serve the dwindling numbers of travelling public which had relied heavily on the railways , it remained open for only 40 years , during which time the car came more and more into ascendancy as a means of transport . |
| 2 | She greeted her son with a nod and relief that Bunty had lagged behind on the stairs , giggling with some others . |
| 3 | It had settled already on the mounds still lying heaped on the field , white as quicklime ; flesh not yet cold and consigned already to ashes ; bone , juice , and fibre still consuming its fuel , deflating from its last action ; sponging off the last image and led already to dust . |
| 4 | ( Now was not the time to say that I had danced only on the boards of my Leeds bedroom … ) |
| 5 | This was even more embarrassing , for Donleavy 's strictures about keeping away from the embassy had focussed particularly on the risks of associating with the Drug Enforcement Administration 's ‘ cowboys ’ , the DIA 's contempt for the CIA under William Casey being exceeded only by its detestation of the DEA . |
| 6 | Everything grew quiet and grey , night came sooner , and the fallen leaves that had bustled brownly on the paths were sodden and began to rot . |