Example sentences of "had [vb pp] at the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 2 | Another innovation made in 1932 was a huge 45-minute clock which Chapman had installed at the north end of the ground so that players and spectators could see at a glance how much time was left for play . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , von Frisch had looked at the honeybee dance more closely . |
| 4 | Earlier , China had protested at the Dalai Lama 's visit to Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia . |
| 5 | Others I had met at the Commando Training Centre in the Scottish Highlands . |
| 6 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 7 | Everything Rain had seen at the Maurin gallery and everything the Contessa Mantero had shown her compared unfavourably with this painting . |
| 8 | It turned out that her son was a great friend of the paraquat-wielding monk I had seen at the monastery farm near Roscrea . |
| 9 | After the service , when everyone had filed outside , Willie looked around for the strange curly-haired boy that he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 10 | He looked up quickly and there , half silhouetted in the twilight , stood the wiry , curly-haired boy he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 11 | For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention . |
| 12 | I sought clarification on a point he had made at the press conference . |
| 13 | Mona had recovered from whatever embarrassment she had felt at the Eliot knife becoming common knowledge , and said crisply : ‘ I ca n't believe that 's true about Pascoe , Alex . ’ |
| 14 | While Jimmy stood at the reception desk counter , both arms spread out on it backwards in the same pose that he had adopted at the bar counter earlier that evening , Duvall simply stood two feet by his side , watching him . |
| 15 | He had left his electric shaver behind , he explained , and had had trouble with the disposable Gillettes he had bought at the hotel shop . |
| 16 | Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unable or unwilling to deliver what the Americans thought he had promised at the Houston summit it last July — political muscle to make progress on farm-reform at the GATT talks . |
| 17 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |
| 18 | He had smiled at the frontier guards and kept walking with his rucksack slung over one shoulder … until the hand had clamped on his collar , and the boots had pitched him into a cell . |
| 19 | Heads of state and government of the 12 member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) met in Luxembourg on June 28-29 to take stock of progress in the negotiations on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and European political union ( EPU ) which had opened at the Rome summit in December 1990 [ see pp. 37905-06 ] . |
| 20 | Valensi , who had shown at the Section d'Or in 1912 , in a lecture given late in the following year asked : ‘ Why should we not invent pure painting ? |
| 21 | In addition , he had called at the Fleming house where he had got no reply to his bell-ringing . |
| 22 | She and Sheila had had disagreements before — not really surprising when you 'd known someone for twelve years , since the first day they had peered at the college noticeboard together . |
| 23 | We had stayed at the Soleil d'Or , a little hotel as warm-hearted as its name . |
| 24 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 25 | The company , when Mr. O'Brien first became associated with it , had banked at the Watford branch of Barclays Bank . |
| 26 | Well , the revels master returned , saying that some masked noble figures had arrived at the water stairs . |
| 27 | By the time the Scotland team had arrived at the Sierras hotel in Alta Gracia the rot had set in . |
| 28 | I had arrived at the bus stop two hours early . |
| 29 | He seems to have taken this view because he was perturbed about the growing power and intransigence of the Soviet Union , whose diplomats he had encountered at the foundation conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in April 1945 . |
| 30 | It seemed that soon after dark a rough-looking man wearing ragged clothes had appeared at the manor house , demanding to speak to Meredith Putt . |