Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus . |
2 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
3 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
4 | The lady had cordially assured me at the outset that I was free " to party with anybody I liked the look of " ( this , except for the half-ounce bikini she wore , being her only hint that what we were sitting in was n't a beauty parlour or seminar room but actually a brothel . |
5 | Creggan had never seen her at the front of her cage before . |
6 | She insisted that she had never seen it at the design stage . |