Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other .
2 By Feb. 9 sympathy strikes had broken out at higher education establishments in several cities .
3 By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border .
4 Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time .
5 I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me .
6 But he had to find out at some stage , did n't he ? ’
7 They had done so at little cost to the state or to the better-off taxpayer .
8 Elsewhere , the tree had grown randomly at lower elevations , and the nut was used for local consumption .
9 And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater .
10 That being the case , the breeze she felt was probably being caused by air which had got in at low tide being forced out at high tide .
11 ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’
12 Their first attempt , however , was foiled when they lost the centre leaf and had to walk out at this point .
13 The new land comprised 240 million cubic metres of lava which had spewed out at 1,100 °C ( 2,012°F ) and was cooled by dowsing with six million tons of sea water in an effort to halt its relentless drive .
14 I spoke later to Jackie , lifeboat secretary , and asked him how many of a crew he had to call on at any time .
15 If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation .
16 The young man with the terrible toothache — Harrison — had sought her out and , clumsily but resolutely , he had told her that he intended to leave the quarries , go back to his father 's farm , assess what his prospects were there and then come back and … his resolution had run out at that point but the aim was clear .
17 And since , as Mr Lawrence says , there could hardly be anything personal in the attack , we 're left with the probability that anyone who had happened along at that moment would have been dealt with in the same way .
18 Probably rose gardens had flourished here at one time .
19 and er with my son particularly earlier on in his career things were going round and round in circles and in the end I had to step in at one point , grab all the papers as they came past as they were and saying , come on .
20 But she had to step down at one stage because she herself won the top prize of the day — and could n't present it to herself !
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