Example sentences of "had [verb] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing , just supposing , that Mackay and Parsons had arranged to meet at the cottage . |
| 2 | My only pen had stopped working at the start of the walk ; in the rain my watch face went blank . |
| 3 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 4 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 5 | That was when Buckley arrived from Kettering , with Grimsby in Division Four , just seven players on the staff and a debt of £850,000 that someone had forgotten to mention at the job interview . |
| 6 | The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ . |
| 7 | At the same time as the Convent negotiations were taking place , the Governors were also advertising for a new headmaster , for Mr. Scott had decided to retire at the end of the Easter Term in 1979 . |
| 8 | He had taken his boys to the river , they had played tennis with some people they had got to know at the boathouse ; he had gone mushrooming in the early morning with the youngest one , whom the lethargy of youth had not yet struck . |
| 9 | Wedgie [ Tony Benn ] then made what I found a very effective speech , pointing out that we had got to look at the problem in domestic as well as international terms . |
| 10 | The three brothers had agreed to meet at the beginning of October , at Metz , where their father was buried . |
| 11 | Mr Bush announced that Mrs Black had agreed to help at the school as there would be an extra seventy children attending . |
| 12 | Even the King had to start learning at the beginning , did n't he ? |
| 13 | This was the explanation of the beast Allen had found dying at the forest edge , its leg broken from a slip on the rocks . |
| 14 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 15 | By Sept. 27 there were reports that the Iraqi authorities , who had introduced rationing at the beginning of the month , were warning that they would not be able to guarantee food supplies for foreigners beyond the end of September , but Iraq stated on Sept. 29 that there were " no plans to deprive foreign nationals of ration coupons " . |
| 16 | They 'd chatted at length about the progression of the public relations arrangements , about the meeting she 'd just had with the video expert , and Salvo had appeared impressed at the amount of hours she was putting in . |
| 17 | Mrs Labno , mother of two sons , who lived in Moreton , Wirral , had hoped to work at the hospice . |
| 18 | Mrs Labno , mother of two sons , who lived in Moreton , Wirral , had hoped to work at the hospice . |
| 19 | She had gone to stand at the cemetery end after spotting Uncle Vernon on the touchline in front of the club-house . |
| 20 | Older women were least likely to be eligible because they had started working at the factory when the married women 's option ( i.e. to pay reduced NI contributions ) was in full operation and the majority had not considered it financially worthwhile to pay full contributions . |
| 21 | The distraught and guilt-ridden driver was unable to remember the number plates of the vans which he had tried to memorise at the time of the kidnapping . |
| 22 | He had tried starting at the end and flicking to the beginning . |
| 23 | Bathsheba had planned to stay at the party for only an hour , and she was in fact preparing to leave when Boldwood found her alone in an upstairs room . |
| 24 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 25 | Again in 1960 , the EEC had begun to look at the problem of discrimination in transport , and in 1961 a Monetary Committee was established , as well as one charged with examining trade cycle policy . |
| 26 | Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power . |
| 27 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 28 | Prices were down by around 50% by comparison to two years ago in the hope of moving stock : Willy d'Huysser from Belgium , for example , with a very fine choice of works , offered a Jannis Kounellis sculpture of 1976 for FFr850,000 which he had failed to sell at the Salon de Mars in Paris last year for FFr1.2 million . |