Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 2 | He had a streak of red paint across the back of his uniform , so one at least had come armed with the essential spray can . |
| 3 | Tony also mentioned how he had visited a local centre for the young unemployed which he had seen advertised in the local newspaper . |
| 4 | She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion . |
| 5 | I climbed over the dead bodies and looked around the washroom ; my eyes had grown used to the dim red emergency lights by now . |
| 6 | On his return in mid-December all his colleagues had felt encouraged by the Prime Minister 's buoyancy ; he had conducted the last debates with all his old skill and command of the House . |
| 7 | She had felt trapped by the old mesh of loyalty and shame . |
| 8 | In Algeria , at the Maison Alletti , the large , low-built house which the old baron had had built in the late 1920s , which formed the base for his Algerian vineyards and timber plantations , and which was built among gardens on the slope of a hill , overlooking the city and the breathtaking bay of Algiers . |
| 9 | we heard had got married to a black girl |
| 10 | Father and son had become locked in a verbal jousting match which had ended with Tristram stamping out of the house and staying out all night . |
| 11 | The ‘ opaque ’ areas of experience , of institutions , and daily living , if they had not disappeared by Gregory 's time , had become absorbed into a Christian universe as translucent parts . |
| 12 | So the patron saint had become absorbed into the feudal world . |
| 13 | Her voice had become raised to a high-pitched shriek of anger . |
| 14 | March 1953 , by which time United Soviet States of Russia had become isolated from the western world , refusing to accept Marshall Aid and hiding behind the ‘ Iron Curtain ’ which they had created . |
| 15 | Much of the stonework had become coated with a black layer of gypsum ( calcium sulphate ) and soot , while the lower levels of the façade are also affected by salt and nitrates which are causing severe damage . |
| 16 | The first Honorary Secretary of the Association recounts how ‘ one lady wrote a letter stating that her daughter had become engaged to a certain Bank Official and requested an opinion , in confidence , as regards his suitability , financially and otherwise ’ . |
| 17 | Within a short space of time , the laboratory had ceased to be involved in the launch vehicles , themselves ( so making ‘ Jet Propulsion ’ a highly anomalous title ) , and had become connected to the newly-formed NASA empire . |
| 18 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 19 | There was , of course , a mortuary chapel — indeed Kensal Green had two chapels , so that Anglicans and Dissenters , even in death , could remain segregated ; but the dead had become divorced from the Christian communities to which they had once belonged . |
| 20 | It showed how firmly union officials had become embedded in the governing structure and how reluctant Labour politicians were to jeopardize the chances of gaining office . |
| 21 | This was published and printed from tiny offices in the centre of Dar es Salaam by R.B. Thaker , an Asian printer and stationer who had become committed to the nationalist cause and assisted TANU with its printing work on a number of occasions . |
| 22 | Her eyes had become focused on the firm line of his lips , and a scalding message raced into her belly where it clenched in a strange , anticipatory tingle . |
| 23 | In the borderlands themselves , in Poland , for example — as Rosa Luxemburg so cogently argued — the interests of the aristocracy of the minority peoples ( where it existed ) had become interwoven with the Tsarist order . |
| 24 | Well before the Great Plague of London in 1665 and the Great Fire of the following year , Chiswick had become established as a healthy environment away from Westminster and the City of London , yet conveniently close to both , also to Richmond Palace and Windsor Castle . |
| 25 | The major civilisations of the Americas , notably the Olmecs and Mayas which thrived between 3 kyr and 1 kyr , dominated the lowland regions adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico but by c. 600 AD ( The Times , The World , 1986 ) the major centres of early American peoples had become established in the high Andean basins . |
| 26 | Now , one man was examining the steel tubes and struts of the scaffolding , dusting the surfaces with aluminium powder and squinting at the result through a lens ; another was on his knees scrutinising the staging planks in case some fibres from the killer 's clothing had become caught in the rough grain of the wood . |
| 27 | This is not to claim that the war was totally unintended , but that national leaders had become caught in an irrational process which led inevitably to war . |
| 28 | Doi ruthlessly exploited the difficulties which the 1989 Recruit scandal caused for the LDP and as the personification of the nascent Japanese women 's movement she was successful in attracting female voters who had become disillusioned with the political process and estranged from the ruling party . |
| 29 | It had become associated in the popular imagination with something naive , laughable or downright kinky . |
| 30 | However , by the early 1980s , the sales outlets had become linked to the head office via computer networks . |