Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Three of these were his fellow truckers from the night Jim Miller had stumbled into them at the gas station . |
2 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
3 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
4 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
5 | We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name . |
6 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
7 | After his death his wife Mary wrote that the idea of symbolising logic had occurred to him at the age of 17 ( Leibniz had had similar but less developed ideas as early as 1666 ) , but several subsequent writers ( see [ 96 , p. 235 ] ) have indicated that Boole 's work on the calculus of operations in the early 1840s must have at least influenced his approach if not actually initiated it . |
8 | Was n't it likely that the thing that had got into him at the seance was really from the planet Tellenor ? |
9 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
10 | After that , we drove to the Ming Tombs close by , and stopped to have an enormous picnic which they had packed for us at the Friendship Hotel . |
11 | From Jibuti my father crossed to Aden and then went to Cairo to confer with Sir Reginald Wingate , the High Commissioner , while we went to Berbera to stay with Geoffrey Archer , the Commissioner in British Somaliland ; he and his wife had stayed with us at the Legation for Zauditu 's coronation in February . |
12 | That much Miguel had volunteered to her at an early stage . |
13 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
14 | Nobody had known about it at the time . |
15 | He had not mentioned it in all this week that Hotspur had spent with him at the abbey , had asked no questions but the most current politenesses about his stay and his journey , and had shown no interest at all in the ceremony from which he had come . |
16 | He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others . |
17 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
18 | It was nearly as tall an order as Eva 's father had set before her at the beginning of her life . |
19 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
20 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
21 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |
22 | She knew that she was always quietly satisfied to have him in the cottage , to hear his footfalls on the floor above , to share with him the meal she had cooked for herself at the end of the day . |